Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park - Music & Performance - CD

Kacey Musgrave's is a 24-year old singer/songwriter from Golden, Texas. She's written songs for Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert and most recently she co-wrote the song "Undermine" that appeared in the second episode of the ABC drama, Nashville. Kacey wrote or co-wrote every track on her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, which was co-produced by Kacey, Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. The album features her current top 15 hit single Merry Go Round, which has already been heavily praised by Billboard, NPR, Washington Post, NY Post and Rolling Stone.

Kacey Musgraves could easily be contemporary country's next big thing. She's a sharp, detailed songwriter with a little bit of an edge, and while it's tempting to think of her as another coming of Taylor Swift, say, she's got the kind of relaxed sureness about what she's doing as a songwriter and performer that puts her closer to a Miranda Lambert. On her first nationally distributed album, Same Trailer Different Park, she definitely sounds more on the Lambert side of things, with a sparse, airy sound that lets her lyrics shine, and she'd as soon use a banjo in her arrangements as a snarling Stratocaster. From her debut single, the marvelous "Merry Go 'Round" (which is included here as the third track), Musgraves showed an intelligent, careful writing style that is as pointed as it is poignant, and even though the song seems to skewer small-town country life, it does it without malice or agenda, and is really more just telling it true than anything else, a trait that ought to be treasured in Nashville but usually isn't. Nashville wants one to tell it true as long as that telling conforms to the template, which Musgraves isn't likely to do. "Merry Go 'Round" might be the best song here, but there are others that are nearly as good, like the lilting, wise opener, "Silver Lining," the implausible "Dandelion" (one wonders how she manages to make such a winning song out of such a metaphor, but she does), and the gutsy (and again, wise) "Follow Your Arrow," all of which feature clear-eyed observations, unintrusive but appropriate arrangements, and a certain flair for telling it like it is and making it sound like bedrock, obvious wisdom. Musgraves has a sense of humor, too, and all of these traits add up to make Same Trailer Different Park more than a collection of songs just aiming for the country charts. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

Performer	Kacey Musgraves
Music genre	Country
Music subgenre	Alternative
Music release type	Album
Media format	CD
Original release date	2013
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Silver Lining, My House, Merry Go 'Round, Dandelion, Blowin' Smoke, I Miss You, Step Off, Back on the Map, keep It to Yourself, Stupid, Follow Your Arrow, It Is What It Is
Record label	Mercury Nashville
Composer	MUSGRAVES KACEY
Songwriter	Kacey Musgraves
Music producer	Kacey Musgrave, Shane McAnally, Luke Laird
Track name	Merry Go Round
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N