Deep Album Cuts Vol. 260: Kacey Musgraves
Four albums is kind of the threshold where I feel like it becomes worth my while to do a Deep Album Cuts playlist for an artist, and last year's Star-Crossed was the fourth (non-Christmas) album by Kacey Musgraves, so I thought I'd put this one together.
Kacey Musgraves deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Step Off
2. Slow Burn
3. Pageant Material
4. Simple Times
5. Back On The Map
6. The Trailer Song
7. Golden Hour
8. Are You Sure (with Willie Nelson)
9. Roy Rogers
10. There Is A Light
11. Dandelion
12. Christmas Makes Me Cry
13. Ribbons And Bows
14. Easier Said
15. Happy & Sad
16. Somebody To Love
17. All Is Found
18. A Spoonful Of Sugar
19. Hookup Scene
20. Silver Lining
21. Late To The Party
22. Oh, What A World
Tracks 1, 5, 11 and 20 from Same Trailer Different Park (2013)
Track 6 from the "Trailer Song" single (2014)
Tracks 3, 8, 16 and 21 from Pageant Material (2015)
Track 18 from We Love Disney (2015)
Track 13 from A Very Kacey Christmas (2016)
Tracks 2, 7, 15 and 22 from Golden Hour (2018)
Track 9 from Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin (2018)
Track 17 from Frozen II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2019)
Track 12 from The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show (2019)
Tracks 4, 10, 14 and 19 from Star-Crossed (2021)
Same Trailer Different Park was my favorite country album of the 2010s, and I was really happy to see Golden Hour win Album of the Year at the Grammys, it's a great record too. But one thing I really wanted to do was revisit Pageant Material, which has kind of gone down as the awkward middle child but is a pretty excellent record in its own right. And even with Star-Crossed being the weak link of her discography, its better experiments sound good in this context. In some ways Kacey Musgraves is far more traditionalist than her mainstream country peers, and in some ways less so. There's a bittersweet longing and sadness in a lot of her best songs, from "Slow Burn" to "Back On The Map," but it's also fun to hear her lean into the cheerful camp of a Christmas song or a cover from Mary Poppins.
I also included a few compilation tracks and "Trailer Song," a good non-album single released a year after Same Trailer but never got promoted to radio and was just kind of quickly forgotten, it has fewer streams than almost any track from her albums. "Roy Rogers" is a deep cut from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that Musgraves covered for Restoration, a country-themed Elton John tribute album, probably one of the best all-star tribute albums I've ever heard.
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