{"id":10304,"date":"2026-04-17T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:58:00","slug":"kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves Sidesteps \u2018Reckless Men\u2019 On New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/NEW-KM-MAIN-KELLY-CHRISTINE-SUTTON-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2264\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Christine Sutton)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kacey Musgraves sets the musical and narrative tone for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/kacey-musgraves-new-album\/\">new album<\/a>, <em>Middle of Nowhere<\/em>, with its opening song and title track, which is out now.<\/p>\n<p>Atop sunlit acoustic strums and a low-end thump, Musgraves calmly declares, \u201cit\u2019s just me and me and that\u2019s all I need.\u201d It\u2019s both a mission statement and, as the record unfolds, a thesis she keeps testing. Because even in the wide-open emotional space she\u2019s carved out, desire \u2014 and contradiction \u2014 creep in quickly.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/iron-maiden-rock-hall-induction\/\">Iron Maiden Won\u2019t Attend Rock Hall Induction<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/failure-location-lost-review\/\">Failure Finds New, Fertile Ground On \u2018Location Lost\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/sean-solomons-busy-messed-up-world\/\">Sean Solomon\u2019s Busy, Messed-Up World<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"70aLHx3L-7E\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that I love about the place that I\u2019m in \/ There\u2019s no reckless men \/ Who don\u2019t know what they want,\u201d she sings later. <em>Middle of Nowhere<\/em> is out May 1 from Lost Highway and is the follow-up to 2024\u2019s <em>Deeper Well<\/em>.  Guests include Willie Nelson on \u201cUncertain, Texas,\u201d Miranda Lambert on \u201cHorses and Divorces,\u201d Billy Strings on \u201cEverybody Wants To Be a Cowboy\u201d and Gregory Alan Isakov on \u201cCoyote.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreatively, I felt compelled to purposefully lean hard into western tropes and elements that I grew up on,\u201d Musgraves says. \u201cI knew I wanted simple and nostalgic framework with traditional elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musgraves will begin promoting the album with a surprise appearance tomorrow afternoon (April 18) at Coachella and a May 17 performance on Prime Video\u2019s ACM Awards.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Christine Sutton) Kacey Musgraves sets the musical and narrative tone for her new album, Middle of Nowhere, with its opening song and title track, which is out now. 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