Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet to Americana 25, our festival taking place in Liverpool at the end of November, we have sold out around half of them already so please do nab one while you can and join us! More details here. We leave you anyway dear reader with the title track from the new Kacey Musgraves album (please don’t take this as a green light to start listening to Smooth Country) who always gets a pass round these parts because she’s such a strong songwriter (we can banish the memory of Golden Hour now, it’s been 8 years which is longer than you get for bad luck from a broken mirror). It’s out today on the recently resurrected Lost Highway label, and features Billy Strings and Willie Nelson among others.
Commenting on the album, Musgraves said: “The bulk of this record was made during the longest single period of my life, and I found that for the first time, it actually felt incredible being alone and existing in a space not defined by anyone else. […] I became fascinated with the concept of liminal space, both geographical and emotional. We don’t linger in these transitional, empty spaces long enough and rush to define where or whatever is next. I became so at ease with being in the “middle of nowhere” in many senses and sitting in the un-comfort of the undefined. I had a lot of time for creative ambling and leaning into myself in different ways; horses, humor, writing with my early collaborators again, and living out my very simple, inspired life between Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico.”
Take care, don’t forget Palestine and keep fighting those fascists. See you on Tuesday (international readers, we have our Mayday celebration on a Monday presumably to banish all thoughts of workers’ rights. This bloody country!)
