Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

sounds like a familiar story: second album harder to write b/c artist on the road.

second album after major label debut that is

:\ i hope she's not tempted to churn out rewrites of "follow your arrow"

http://m.cmt.com/news/1731108/

Glad to hear it is with the same creative team

Charming as ever last night. Three new-ish songs - "Biscuits," "High Time" and "Cup of Tea," each very much in the vein of her other stuff. Bunch of great covers, including Dolly's "Here You Come Again" and TLC's "No Scrubs." Cool light up suits and boots. And cacti.

Mama's Broken Heart, written by musgraves (and clarke and mcanally) rereleased as a Kacey single on Spotify after showing up on Miranda's last album back
it's pretty great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmFr53keqI

i've been into her version for a while so that's really nice. wish it were available for purchase tho :(

Recently got to play with John Prine

[Removed Illegal Image]

^ salacious

It's in This

I think she's on the new Brian Wilson, for some reason?

Yup.

http://www.countryweekly.com/sites/countryweekly.com/files/imagecache/node_page_image/article_images/screen-shot-2014_04_21-at-1.jpg

Brian's been collecting the Manic Pixie Singer Girls

http://www.jambands.com/images/2014/07/18/51692/20140716-brianwilson-x600-1405541382-353x.jpg

her second album is apparently finished and the single will be out in a few weeks: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6487352/kacey-musgraves-keith-urban-eric-church-umg-crs-showcase-nashville

it's the song "gravy" that she has performed live over the past while. unless she has rewritten the song to be different from how it sounded in live performance i honestly don't really like it, it's clearly meant to be a less lyrically 'controversial' "follow your arrow" and some of the similarities in melody and progression are so blatant as to be distracting

er sorry the song is called "biscuits" as if that makes much difference lol

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10959765_796252447116200_4528675302121849571_n.jpg?oh=5c2347fd4a61ace377ee89cced98163e&oe=558AACD7&__gda__=1435152573_3b77c720209f883868febe705167d09f

"Biscuits" is on the radio and stuff enough to chart on the Hot 100 this week but the studio version is impossible to find online because the label keeps pulling it anywhere it's posted until the iTunes release on the 17th. kind of aggravating, i really wanna hear it.

https://soundcloud.com/becky-isbell/biscuits-by-kacey-musgraves
get it while you can; it's pretty good

hot take here on listen one but this sound like a more crossover friendly version of Follow Your Arrow with a lotta Miranda thrown in and wonkiness and banjo solos
i think this could blow up bigger than anything she's done prior and hopefully the album will have some new wrinkles to enjoy.

it's mostly a countrified:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXUnrCeZnE

she's been playing this live - nice enough, an obvious "lead single to follow a breakthrough", pretty sure it'll be the least exciting thing on the album

Thx for the link, and thanks to Becky Isbell for the good initiative.

Will make for a nice track on the album but found "Love is a Liar" a much more interesting song. Her down-to-earth-trailer-persona comes through well on this, but I prefer the torn-in-love-stuff.

lex otm

it had better be the least exciting thing on the album b/c i'm pretty disappointed with it

otm

you only just now heard it!

yeah but it's so much like "Follow Your Arrow" that I'm disappointed. I dunno, it'll be nice enough on the album.

It sounds exactly like Follow Your Arrow. Assumed the eerie silence in this thread since it leaked reflected the collective shrug

i like this song

she has a sound

it's a good sound

xp i heard this song at a live show a long time ago and didn't particularly like it then either

also heard the studio version a few days ago

agree that of her post-STDP songs, "love is a liar" is miles better and more interesting

Like the songs on STDP it's simple yet gets better with every listen and of course it includes the hilarious line If love wore pants they'd always be on fire

there was something about "Follow Your Arrow" that always fell short for me, so this is an improvement imo, especially melodically

"Follow Your Arrow" sounded facile and pat -- lyrically and melodically. This is better (e.g. the banjo and pedal steel solos), but it plays as if the songwriters were so in love with the title concept that they failed to imagine an accompanying song.

It's closer to "Step Off' than "Follow Your Arrow" IMO, though all that really means is that "mind your own business" is a recurrent lyrical motif for Kacey.

Musically/arrangement-wise it's not really much like either (or anything else from the debut).

musically it is basically a facsimile of "follow your arrow" tho

I don't like it - sounds overproduced and generic. Not every one on the debut is a keeper though.

"Biscuits" is catchy, fine, but it also feels like pandering to me -- in a way that nothing on the first album really did, for all its homegrown cornpone.

new album june 9th, pageant material

1. "High Time" (written by Kacey Musgraves, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally)
2. "Dime Store Cowgirl" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
3. "Late to the Party" (Musgraves, Brandy Clark, Josh Osborne)
4. "Pageant Material" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
5. "This Town" (Musgraves, Laird, Clark)
6. "Biscuits" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
7. "Somebody to Love" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
8. "Miserable" (Musgraves, Osborne, Clark)
9. "Die Fun" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
10. "Family is Family" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
11. "Good Ol' Boys Club" (Musgraves, Laird, Natalie Hemby)
12. "Cup of Tea" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
13. "Fine" (Musgraves, Ashley Arrison, Shane McAnally)

promising titles all around

i wonder if any of them will be about how people should mind their own business

don't you worry your pretty little head about that

lol

i am kind of excited though, the wait won't be very long at all

considering that i have not heard her new single on the radio even once yet (like i even heard "keep it to yourself" ~5 times and that was not exactly a big radio smash) i was worried they might hold off giving the album a release date but thankfully not. (not that i am aching to hear "biscuits" on the radio or anything, i still am not a big fan.)

has anyone else heard this album yet?

i am...a little disappointed. it's fine, i guess. her songwriting has taken a turn for the trite :/

all the same cowriters?

can't remember offhand but largely, yeah

hmm that is disappointing. will check it out tho

i wonder if any of them will be about how people should mind their own business
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, April 26, 2015

don't you worry your pretty little head about that
― j., Sunday, April 26, 2015