Kacey Musgraves, born in Golden, Texas in 1988, is an American country singer-songwriter working the seam between country, pop, and psychedelia. Golden Hour (2018) won the Album of the Year Grammy — only the third country album ever to do it — and Same Trailer Different Park (2013) is just as sharp. Find Kacey Musgraves vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Kacey Lee Musgraves was born in Golden, Texas on August 21, 1988. She self-released material in the late 2000s before signing with Mercury Nashville and releasing her major-label debut Same Trailer Different Park (2013), which won Best Country Album at the Grammys in 2014. Her 2018 album Golden Hour won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2019 - only the third country album to win the top Grammy prize. She has continued releasing material across multiple decades, with progressively expansive production approaches that have positioned her at the intersection of country, pop, and singer-songwriter traditions. Her 2021 album Star-Crossed addressed her divorce from singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly.
Kacey Musgraves's sound combines country, country pop, alternative country, folk, pop, and psychedelic country with her distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content addressing relationships, identity, social issues, and personal experience. Her work has been a defining template for contemporary country crossover.
MCA Nashville pressings of the Kacey Musgraves catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and retailer-exclusive pressings.
Listeners new to Kacey Musgraves typically start with Golden Hour (2018) or Same Trailer Different Park (2013).
