11/8/2023 0 Comments Kacey musgrave tour 2022![]() Thankfully (or, rather un-thankfully, considering I, Ruston Kelly, am trying to move on here) Musgraves’ personality is too massive for her lesser material to stifle it from the stage. In attempting to plumb her (I mean, our) breakup for grand cosmic romantic relatability, she smothers a lot of those quirky “ Grandma cried when I pierced my nose” type Kacey-isms. ![]() This is a songwriter who achieves the most when she’s straining the least, her best work arriving at universal truths when she simply follows her arrow and lets her gloriously earnest idioms speak for everyone. “It’s a beautiful night for depressing songs,” Musgraves remarked, half joking, half apologizing, midway through an opening run of five Star-Crossed tunes – a somewhat heavy-handed framing that inadvertently encapsulated their missing lightness of touch. People basically agree that this new album is a tiny bit mid… y’know, relative to the catalog. But after the close of “Star-Crossed,” title track to her latest 2021 LP, she moved wordlessly into wistfully peppy spousal inferiority anthem “Good Wife.” Instead of yelling along with the existential discontent Musgraves felt at fulfilling a preordained domestic role, the tiny teenager to my right yelled “Play ‘High Horse’!” And there she was, Kacey, my much more famous ex.Īs she emerged to join her vast band from a giant metal heart sculpture – one that soon burst into flames around the time she sang about getting papers signed – I prepared for the most hellish evening of my life (besides, of course, the night I lost my Americana Award). ![]() After somehow getting lost and foolhardily wandering straight to the center-front of my erstwhile soulmate’s Sunday night ACL set, I was trapped by flanks of her most committed fans, soon to be yelling along to lyrics about our misbegotten civil union. The selfless pursuit of music criticism has demanded I mentally role play as you, to better assess the bruising authenticity of my (your) former wife’s recent divorce songs.Īnyway, so there I was – me, Ruston Kelly – at the Honda stage. First, a brief apology to Rounder Records recording artist, onetime Americana Awards nominee, and generally well-respected singer-songwriter dude Ruston Kelly.
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