Keith Urban will perform on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday (April 30th).
Kacey Musgraves has been announced as one of the performers at Japan’s biggest music festival, Fuji Rock Festival ’18. She’ll be joined by such acts as Bob Dylan, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Fishbone and Jack Johnson for the three-day festival running July 27th through July 29th.
Shania Twain is set to host the Canadian Country Music Association September 9th at the First Ontario Center in Hamilton Ontario.
Kacey Musgraves wrote her song “Butterflies” about a week after meeting her now-husband, singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly. Rarely will you find a sweet love song on one of Kacey’s albums, but “Butterflies” is a glimpse into Kacey’s heart and mind with what she was going through and feeling following their fateful meeting.
“It’s actually the first song I wrote after meeting my now-husband,” says Kacey. “Everything from the lyrics down to the production really represents this floaty, dreamy feeling that I got as soon as he came into my life. I wrote this song with Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally back in 2016 in the Spring when I had gotten off the road and tried to get back to my creative roots of just writing again just to write and explore new ideas. I had just met Ruston, so my world had been completely flipped upside down, so this is a great sonic representation of that.”
“Butterflies” is from Kacey’s new record, Golden Hour, which also features the songs “Space Cowboy,” “High Horse” and many others.
Kacey plays the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California this weekend and has a few more dates on Little Big Town’s The Breakers Tour before heading out on the road with Harry Styles.
Kacey Musgraves (Butterflies) OC: …of that. :44
“‘Butterflies’ is one of my favorite songs on the record, and it’s actually the first song I wrote after meeting my now-husband. Everything from the lyrics down to the production really represents this floaty, dreamy feeling that I got as soon as he came into my life. I wrote this song with Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally back in 2016 in the Spring when I had gotten off the road and tried to get back to my creative roots of just writing again just to write and explore new ideas. I had just met Ruston, so my world had been completely flipped upside down, so this is a great sonic representation of that.”
Shania Twain will appear on VH1’s Rupaul’s Drag Race Friday (April 20th) at 8pm ET.
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Brothers Osborne will perform a song from their new Port Saint Joe album on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday (April 23rd) on CBS.
Kacey Musgraves will be the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live with host Amy Schumer.
Watch Dierks Bentley perform “Woman, Amen” from his upcoming album, The Mountain, on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live right here.
Kacey Musgraves recorded “Roy Rogers,” which is featured on the new compilation Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song, written by Sir Elton and Bernie, was featured on the 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.
The collection, also featuring Chris Stapleton, Little Big Town, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Vince Gill and Don Henley, among others, is available now.
We’ve included both a five-minute vignette and a 90-second vignette of Kacey’s version of “Roy Rogers” for your use.
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Kacey Musgraves’ highly anticipated fourth album Golden Hour is available now via MCA Nashville. Co-produced and co-written by Kacey with Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, the album is Kacey’s most intimate to date, featuring previously released hits “Butterflies,” “Space Cowboy” and “High Horse” (see full track list below). Golden Hour is available now for purchase here: http://strm.to/GoldenHour
Golden Hour has been critically lauded by everyone from NPR, TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and The Huffington Post to Consequence of Sound, Noisey, Vulture, SPIN and Pitchfork, among others. USA Today declares “”Golden Hour may be 2018’s best album yet,” and Stereogum hails Golden Hour as their “album of the week,” stating “It’s her best release yet, one that gracefully transcends country while exploring musical pastures as wide-open as the plains of her native Texas.” The Huffington Post pronounces Golden Hour “the work of a self-assured artist breaking the mold instead of the younger version telling us that one day she would” and TIME proclaims “Musgraves’ superpower is the ability to reach audiences across boundaries. She may not be country’s biggest star, but she’s still one of its worthiest” (see additional press quotes below).
Kacey celebrated Golden Hour’s release with performances of “Slow Burn” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and “Butterflies” this morning on TODAY, and she is set to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 4th. Kacey is currently on tour with Little Big Town and will be playing Stagecoach Festival April 28th. This summer, she’ll join Harry Styles on his U.S. tour before embarking on her headlining Oh, What A World: Tour. For full list of dates, visit http://www.kaceymusgraves.com/tour.
Golden Hour Tracklist:
“Golden Hour may be 2018’s best album yet” – USA Today
“After several years of making space for herself in her genre and the broader musical landscape, Musgraves is nervy enough to let her guard down and embrace her complexity, and that’s given her listeners more to grab a hold of than ever.” – NPR
“For Musgraves, who established herself as a more acoustic-based, traditional-country force on 2013’s Grammy-winning Same Trailer Different Park, it’s a record that boldly goes where she hasn’t before. After two albums that leaned heavily on country sing-alongs with clever, often cute turns-of-phrase, the 29-year-old takes a more mature and sonically diverse approach on Golden Hour.” – Rolling Stone
“’Golden Hour’ may be a bit weird, and a bit surprising, by country’s traditional standards. But it’s relaxed, authentic and at home with itself. There’s nothing more country than that.” –The Huffington Post
“Musgraves’ superpower is the ability to reach audiences across boundaries. She may not be country’s biggest star, but she’s still one of its worthiest.” – TIME
“This technicolor fantasyland that Kacey has built with Golden Hour is her most creatively daring work yet, in which she embraced new sounds, genres, and collaborators.” – The FADER
“Musgraves hits one high note after another on Golden Hour; her talent as a songwriter and melody-maker is second to none, and each song is thoughtful, well-formed, and a delightful experience on its own. Together, the tracks on Golden Hour add up to an honest, cohesive musical experience that will linger in your mind and heart long after the final notes have faded.” – Consequence of Sound
“…it’s clear that the Texan is still the most talented songwriter in mainstream pop-country.” – Noisey
“It is an extremely well-produced and richly textured record that the singer describes as “galactic country,” and, indeed, its expansiveness recalls the wonder of staring up at the kind of starry night sky that seems to envelop you. Where Musgraves’s career to this point has been defined by her sound, Golden Hour is an album of sounds, of silken reverb and misty harmonizing, rippling guitar lines and bubbly bass, of vocoders and drums that evoke the soothing pitter-patter of a lazy rainy day. At times it recalls the aquatic haze of Madonna’s Ray of Light, and at others the open-highway rumbling of the War on Drugs. It very well may be her best.” – SPIN
Kacey Musgraves (Golden Hour title) OC: …this record. :34
“The title Golden Hour just seemed to sum up this chapter of my life perfectly. I mean not only am I from a town called Golden, Texas, but leading up to making this record, there’s been a lot of beauty in my atmosphere and in my world. I love the picture that pops in my head when I hear that title. It’s also an actual song on the record, but it’s just this warm, golden feeling that I’m really happy to have in my life, and I found it to be the perfect title for this record.”
Kacey Musgraves releases her new album, Golden Hour, this Friday (March 30th). The album includes a note to people who purchase the record, which she says represents “the whole picture” of her.
“I thought it would be kind of cool to include a little bit of a note or a foreword to anybody that opens the album,” says Kacey. “And it’s just a statement as to where I am, where the music is and why it’s here and what I kind of am sensing that humanity is kind of craving right now.”
The note says, “There we were in the middle of making this record and a total solar eclipse darkened Nashville on my birthday, my 29th year, a golden hour in my young adult life. There are certain junctures that you can’t just think your way through, you just have to feel. I found myself at one making this album. It was like the universe was majestically saying, ‘This is a time to be present to witness the beauty of this incredible world that you’re lucky to be alive in despite it being more complicated than ever and filled with so much darkness.’ We all need a little bit of light right now. We all need for compassion and art to flourish; things we rely on turn out to be fake and hurtful; people we look up to turn out to be just as jaded and messed up as everybody else and yet somehow new love finds its way up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The sun still rises and the birds still sing, inspiration still finds its way to you again. There are different masks that we all wear that represent different sides of ourselves. None of them are solely us, and yet they all are. There’s the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the daughter missing her mother, the hopeful girl, the selfish girl, the sarcastic rhinestone Texan, the shy girl and the life of the party, the winner, the loser – they’re all characters on this record. None of them alone are me, and yet they all are. The Golden Hour is when all the masks come together as one and you can see in perfect light the whole picture of me.”
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Kacey co-produced the album with a pair of friends, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, with whom she also co-wrote several tracks on the new project.
The Texas native will perform on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday (March 29th) on CBS.
She’s currently on the road with Little Big Town on The Breakers Tour. The next stop on the trek will be April 5th in Minneapolis.
Golden Hour Track List:
Kacey Musgraves (statement on album) OC: …the whole picture of me. 1:48
“I thought it would be kind of cool to include a little bit of a note or a foreword to anybody that opens the album. And it’s just a statement as to where I am, where the music is and why it’s here and what I kind of am sensing that humanity is kind of craving right now. So, when you open the album there’s a note from me and it says, ‘There we were in the middle of making this record and a total solar eclipse darkened Nashville on my birthday, my 29th year, a golden hour in my young adult life. There are certain junctures that you can’t just think your way through, you just have to feel. I found myself at one making this album. It was like the universe was majestically saying, ‘This is a time to be present to witness the beauty of this incredible world that you’re lucky to be alive in despite it being more complicated than ever and filled with so much darkness.’ We all need a little bit of light right now. We all need for compassion and art to flourish; things we rely on turn out to be fake and hurtful; people we look up to turn out to be just as jaded and messed up as everybody else and yet somehow new love finds its way up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The sun still rises and the birds still sing, inspiration still finds its way to you again. There are different masks that we all wear that represent different sides of ourselves. None of them are solely us, and yet they all are. There’s the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the daughter missing her mother, the hopeful girl, the selfish girl, the sarcastic rhinestone Texan, the shy girl and the life of the party, the winner, the loser – they’re all characters on this record. None of them alone are me, and yet they all are. The Golden Hour is when all the masks come together as one and you can see in perfect light the whole picture of me.’”
Kacey Musgraves releases her new album, Golden Hour, this Friday (March 30th), and she felt there were many positive powers shining a light on her recording, and she came up with the title of the collection following last year’s total solar eclipse.
“There were several serendipitous moments that really come to mind during the making of this whole record. One of the biggest ones was literally a cosmic event. It was literally on August 21st, which is my birthday, and there we were in the very middle of making this album and the total solar eclipse happened in Nashville, and it darkened all of Nashville. It just felt like this cosmic event that everyone was paying attention to, it kind of stopped time and cast a really beautiful light on Nashville itself on my birthday, my 29th year, which is kind of the golden hour of my young adult life and it just felt very special.”
Kacey co-produced the album with a pair of friends, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, with whom she also co-wrote several tracks on the new project.
The Texas native will perform on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday (March 29th) on CBS.
She’s currently on the road with Little Big Town on The Breakers Tour. The next stop on the trek will be April 5th in Minneapolis.
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Kacey Musgraves (moments on Golden Hour) OC: …very special. :37
“There were several serendipitous moments that really come to mind during the making of this whole record. One of the biggest ones was literally a cosmic event. It was literally on August 21st, which is my birthday, and there we were in the very middle of making this album and the total solar eclipse happened in Nashville, and it darkened all of Nashville. It just felt like this cosmic event that everyone was paying attention to, it kind of stopped time and cast a really beautiful light on Nashville itself on my birthday, my 29th year, which is kind of the golden hour of my young adult life and it just felt very special.”
Kacey Musgraves (Wonder Woman) OC: …smile to myself. :36
“Some other small nods from the universe happened like I’ll never forget the day that I wrote ‘Wonder Woman.’ I was riding home and listening to the work tape in my car kind of going over the song. It was literally golden hour. It was sunset and the Nashville skyline looked so beautiful, and as I was driving and listening to ‘Wonder Woman,’ a random stray balloon out of nowhere floats up above my windshield and up into the sky and it was literally a metallic, star-shaped balloon that was red, white and blue — very, very Wonder Woman-ish, and I just had to kind of smile to myself.”
Jordan Davis will perform his Top 5 “Singles You Up” on NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday (March 27th).
Kacey Musgraves is set to perform on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday (March 29th) on CBS.
Little Big Town recently received the CMA’s International Artist Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by a U.S.-based artist who has demonstrated the most significant growth, development and promotion of the Country Music industry outside of the U.S.
Kacey Musgraves sings “Roy Rogers” on the new tribute album, Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. She met Elton last year at the Royal Albert Hall where they both performed, and she says she really respects him as an artist and a songwriter.
“I love Elton John, and I really respect what he’s done through his career as far as remaining true to the music, to the songwriting,” says Kacey. “His persona is larger than life, and he seems so humble and sweet and genuine. And I think anybody that manages to become an icon and a legend by being themselves is somebody that I really respect and making it about the music and not pandering to trends or whatever throughout the years. It’s just simply about the music and I think that’s really cool. Also, I’m the dime store cowgirl; he’s a brown dirt cowboy. This couldn’t be a better fit.”
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“Roy Rogers” was originally included on the legendary performer’s 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill and many others appear on Restoration, which is set for release April 6th.
Kacey is set to release her new album, Golden Hour, on March 30th.
Kacey Musgraves (Elton John) OC: …better fit. :35
“I love Elton John, and I really respect what he’s done through his career as far as remaining true to the music, to the songwriting. His persona is larger than life, and he seems so humble and sweet and genuine. And I think anybody that manages to become an icon and a legend by being themselves is somebody that I really respect and making it about the music and not pandering to trends or whatever throughout the years. It’s just simply about the music and I think that’s really cool. Also, I’m the dime store cowgirl; he’s a brown dirt cowboy. This couldn’t be a better fit.”
Some of the world’s biggest pop, rock and country artists are celebrating Elton John’s most beloved and legendary catalogue of hits with two albums Revamp (Island Records) and Restoration (Universal Music Group Nashville) to be released on April 6th. The superstar lineup features artists both new and iconic reinterpreting the timeless songs of the over 50 year writing partnership that Elton and Bernie Taupin share. These renditions and artists show the depth of the catalogue these two icons have created, which can easily cross musical genres and their unparalleled influence across popular music of all styles.
Restoration highlights countries biggest stars with thoughtful interpretations by Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash and Emmylou Harris, Miley Cyrus, Vince Gill and Don Henley, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Brothers Osborne, Chris Stapleton, Rhonda Vincent and Dolly Parton and Lee Ann Womack.
Revamp features the hits reimagined by the best in pop, rock and urban with Mary J. Blige, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, The Killers, Mumford and Sons, P!nk and Logic, Q-Tip ft. Demi Lovato, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith.
“’It’s always a huge compliment when an artist loves your song enough to take the time and effort to rework it,” adds Elton John. “As songwriters, Bernie and myself are thrilled when singers we admire and respect as much as those on Revamp & Restoration choose to add their own unique twist in the process. It means that our music is still relevant and ultimately that our songs continue to reach new audiences. We’re humbled and thank them all for their generosity.”
“Because of our love of all kinds of music, we’re not stuck in one genre,” said Bernie Taupin. “From day one we borrowed from everything that’s good about American music – whether it’s blues, country, gospel, pop, pure rock – everything got thrown in the mix. I think that’s why our music over the years has been so varied. It would be tiring if you just got stuck in one niche your entire career, especially when it’s one as long as ours.”
The album art for Restoration was created by Bernie. The rustic musical instruments and flags from both nations is an extension of his mixed-media art that’s another form of expression. It symbolizes the role that U.S. culture and its native music has played as a driver in the John/Taupin canon.
“For me, there’s an irony about the American flag,” Taupin says. “It’s been battered and beaten and burned, but it’s resilient. It’s always come back. I incorporate it with other things, and lately I’ve done a lot of pieces with deconstructed guitars and other found materials: barbed wire, broken bottles, things that people identify with on an everyday level. If it’s on the floor and it works, I’ll put it into the artwork. But it all goes hand in hand with my belief in America and my interest, I would say obsession, with Americana.”
“We have two completely different albums; Revamp being the pop one and Restoration being the country one and God we have so many great artists doing our songs, it’s quite incredible,” said Elton John. “Restoration was Bernie’s project and he’s a huge country fan. The ‘Revamp’ was more my project. He came up with an astonishing list of country performers both new and legendary.”
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The caliber of names contributing to Revamp and Restoration is another reminder of Elton’s enduring popularity at a busy and prolific time for the superstar. Last month Elton announced his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ tour. Comprising of over 300 dates across five continents over three years, the tour kicks off in the US in September and marks the finale of 50 years on the road. The first 60 dates sold out immediately after going on general sale, confirming that the farewell tour will be some of, if not the, hottest gig tickets of the coming three years.
Music stars honor Elton John’s illustrious career spanning five decades with a rockin’ tribute on ELTON JOHN: I’M STILL STANDING A GRAMMY SALUTE, to be broadcast Tuesday, April 10 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The concert showcases musicians from multiple genres performing classic songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, including Alessia Cara, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Kesha, Little Big Town, Chris Martin, Shawn Mendes, Maren Morris, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and SZA.