Kacey Musgraves has announced her sixth LP, Middle of Nowhere. It’s the follow up to 2024’s Deeper Well due out May 1 via Lost Highway, and she produced it with longtime collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. It also features Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov, and you can see the cover art and tracklist below.
“The bulk of this record was made during the longest single period of my life,” Musgraves says, “and I found that for the first time, it actually felt incredible being alone and existing in a space not defined by anyone else. I became fascinated with the concept of liminal space, both geographical and emotional. We don’t linger in these transitional, empty spaces long enough and rush to define where or whatever is next. I became so at ease with being in the ‘middle of nowhere’ in many senses and sitting in the un-comfort of the undefined. I had a lot of time for creative ambling and leaning into myself in different ways; horses, humor, writing with my early collaborators again, and living out my very simple, inspired life between Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico.”
The first single is “Dry Spell,” whose cheeky lyrics Sabrina Carpenter surely would appreciate. Watch the video, which Musgraves co-directed with Hannah Lux Davis, below.
KACEY MUSGRAVES – MIDDLE OF NOWHERE TRACKLIST
1. Middle of Nowhere
2. Dry Spell
3. Back on the Wagon
4. I Believe in Ghosts
5. Abilene
6. Coyote feat. Gregory Alan Isakov
7. Loneliest Girl
8. Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy feat. Billy Strings
9. Horses and Divorces feat. Miranda Lambert
10. Uncertain, Texas feat. Willie Nelson
11. Rhinestoned
12. Mexico Honey
13. Hell on Me
