Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

m@tt was otm

playing in the boston common for free-99 tomorrow evening

i'll hell of be there

I think I will as well depending on work

this is a strange crowd

she covered no scrubs, I'm dead

this kind of sounds like a record for people who are on vacation

Love this album. Production is beautiful and I find her presence endlessly likeable and reassuring. Agree with those who say the Follow Your Arrow-a-like homilies are the weak spots.

I finally listened to this yesterday. It does sound great, and I love the steel guitar playing in particular. The album pushes the boundaries of what I think Hawaiian country music would sound like, like Elvis on "Beyond the Reef".

I do not like the homilies, though, and that's most of the songs, no? So many songs written in the second person (or is it imperative tense?): but addressed to "you"---though I guess "Keep It To Yourself" is written that way too, and that's my favorite on the debut. This album has almost no love songs, really just "Late to the Party", and very little intimate writing: nothing like "It Is What It Is", "Back On The Map", "Keep It To Yourself". I like "Die Fun" and "Fine". But I hope she'll turn her songwriting a bit more inward on the next album, since she's shown us already how keen her voice is when aimed there.

"Late to the Party" is one of the better cuts, although it has a little of that bland NPR pop-folkiness that hurts some of this latest effort. She also climbs up the scales vocally a bit on that track in a pretty manner, while on many others is stuck in a similiar intonation/perky pop-folk narrow range.

"Late to the Party" sounded great live earlier tonight. "Die Fun" was nice. The 2nd album cuts sounded better live. The steel guitar and Hawaiian guitar touches from the band worked well too. She also did "No Scrubs," "These Boots Are made for Walkin'" (while wearing light-up go-go boots backed by her band in suits with flashing lights on them

I enjoyed the show. They closed with an a cappella "Happy Trails". She urged the fans to call country radio to get her airtime. She also proclaimed her joy that she was in DC the day the Supreme Court issued its gay marriage ruling.

i didn't even know what singles she's released since "Biscuits"...looks like she made a video for the Willie Nelson duet but is working the one w/ the Willie Nelson namedrop to radio.

I heard "Dimestore Cowgirl" in somewhere that was playing a Country station recently.

I think that was the song she wanted people to request. Wiki lists it as the second single.

just got her first album, digging it - the songwriting is really strong. her voice is kinda generic and not all that interesting.

And also it's very coherent, it's like a room you can enter. Which is to say it works well as an album, good feel, atmosphere.

it's v consistent, yeah. if she can maintain the quality of the material I can overlook the plainness of her voice

^^^ why I didn't embrace the album in 2013.

I'm going to the apollo show tomorrow, curious to see how she plays in that room as it reminds me of the ryman in many ways
i am hoping for that no scrubs cover

xxp people who criticize someone for having a "plain voice" get the Adam Duritz they deserve

duritz rules get it straight.

a very popular opinion there spottie

me n u bro, we can change the world.

just u 2 stumbling through the barrio

just u 2 strumming a banjo

"C'mon Edge, play the Bluegrass!"

the preview of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in Pickin' on U2 2 beat autre ne veut to the punch

title also beat scott aukerman to a different punch

http://www.pride.com/music/2016/3/28/16-reasons-why-kacey-musgraves-every-gay-mans-spirit-animal

ugh no more "spirit animal" please

^^Her next album title?

wouldn't surprise me :\

16 reasons why i refuse to click that link

pls no more humans being spirit animals

Christmas album is nice!

ok, having listened to the whole thing there's a fair amount of silliness on there. "Present Without a Bow" is lovely though.

saw her open for Willie Nelson on Saturday. Her band is great, most of the material was great, and then there were a couple groaners (wtf is that "mind Your Own Biscuits/and live will be gravy" song ugh). She did "Rhinestone Cowboy" as a tribute to Glenn, which was cool. Also laughed when she said where she was from, a bunch of people hooted/clapped, and then she responded "I dunno what you're clapping for, that place sucks shit"

cover of CEe-Lo/Dangermouse's "Crazy" was really uncalled for

(wtf is that "mind Your Own Biscuits/and live will be gravy" song ugh).

The lead single from her last regular album.

it wasn't a good album

yeah I didn't hear a lot of new stuff that grabbed me, apart from this one that had a fairly extended spacey instrumental intro. Pedal steel guitarist really does a lot of heavy lifting melodically, at least live.

IIRC, I read somewhere that outside of a few numbers she didn't really get to sit and write much new stuff for Pageant Material, so many of the songs on it were unrecorded ST,DP leftovers.

both biscuits and pageant material are awesome

Yeah. Beautiful production too

pageant material was not as good at stdp obviously but still better than i thought it would be. however "biscuits" is still horrendous and there are a couple others on the album that are close.

I didn't even know she released a Christmas album until recently.

she played some new tracks (saw her open for Willie on Thursday at the Shrine) that were outstanding. they sounded a bit more like Ashley Monroe, particularly her more midtempo Fleetwood Mac-ish work on The Blade.

It was a treat to see her serenading alongside Kristofferson in a medley at the end of the show.

looking fwd to her new album even tho i wasn't as into the last one. I mean, pageant material is good but in the way that also feels kind of like a retread. anthony hamilton was an artist who everyone i know who's heard him likes one album from—whichever one they hear first. Im hopeful shes not like that