Canaan Smith is set to perform his new single, “Hole In a Bottle,” when he appears on NBC’s Today Show on Monday.
Kacey Musgraves will perform “Dime Store Cowgirl” and “This Town” on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night (11:35p CT).
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NEWS AND NOTES: Darius Rucker, Lady Antebellum, Kacey Musgraves, Josh Turner, Luke Bryan
Darius Rucker is set to perform during NBC’s Today Show Summer Concert Series on Friday (August 28th).
Lady Antebellum will take over CMT this weekend, starting with CMT Hot 20 Countdown on Saturday (August 29th) at 9am ET. Cameras caught the trio at Virginia Beach on their Wheels Up 2015 Tour with opening acts Sam Hunt and Hunter Hayes. Then at 12pm ET, CMT will premiere the band’s third live DVD release. The full-length program will be available on DVD and blu-ray, with a deluxe version at Walmart, November 13th.
Kacey Musgraves and Josh Turner have been added to the list of performers at the 9th Annual ACM Honors at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday (September 1st).
Luke Bryan and Lady Antebellum will be among the famous faces honoring Lionel Richie as the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year on February 13th in Los Angeles, prior to the Grammy Awards later that week.
Jon Pardi took to his Twitter to announce the newest addition to his family, Augustus. The pup, otherwise known as “Gus,” joins Jon’s other dog, “Cowboy.” The two dogs are actually related — Gus is Cowboy’s nephew.
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KACEY MUSGRAVES PARTNERS WITH LUCCHESE BOOTS.
EL PASO—Lucchese, the legendary Western brand renowned for its handmade bootmaking process, today announced a partnership with Texas-native, Grammy-winning country artist, Kacey Musgraves.Together, they collaborated to introduce “Kacey for Lucchese,” a dynamic new collection of boots inspired by Kacey’s life and experiences over the past couple of years both musically and personally.
“I’ve had so much fun designing my boot line for Lucchese. As a native Texan (and a boot wearer!) this brand means something special to me and this opportunity was a dream come true. Every detail on each boot in this line represents sentiments and pieces of me and my career. I hope y’all will wear them as proudly as I will!” With shared Texas roots and a mutual dedication to artistry, authenticity and craft, collaborating on a new Kacey-inspired boot line was a natural fit.“Working with Kacey is like listening to her music – it’s motivating and fun,” said Doug Kindy, President of Lucchese. “The collection celebrates her adventurous and confident spirit and unites it with the heart and soul of the Lucchese brand.” The line includes a unique range of four different Western designs that capture Kacey’s exciting, youthful essence without straying from Lucchese’s traditional, time-honored craftsmanship. Much like the performer who inspired the boots and the bootmaker who crafted them, the “Kacey for Lucchese” collection makes a lasting statement that stands out.Launching in time for the holidays, the collection features boots expected to retail from approximately $300 to $450. Product will be available at all Lucchese stores (Houston, San Antonio, Santa Fe and Nashville), on Lucchese.com and through additional retail distribution to be announced in the coming weeks. A special, kick-off presale announcement is forthcoming.About Kacey Musgraves:Texas-native and Nashville-based singer/songwriter, Kacey Musgraves released her Mercury Records Nashville debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, in the spring of 2013 to massive critical acclaim and recognition. The album, which she co-produced with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart making her the first solo female in five years to open at No. 1 with a rookie release, and just seventh in the 22-year Nielson SoundScan era. The gold-certified album includes her top 10, platinum-selling single “Merry Go ‘Round” and gold-certified hit “Follow Your Arrow.” Musgraves has taken home the award for “New Artist of the Year” at 2013’s CMA Awards and also won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song (“Merry Go ‘Round”) and Best Country Album (Same Trailer Different Park), the ACM Award for Album of the Year (Same Trailer Different Park), and most recently the 2014 CMA Award for Song of the Year (“Follow Your Arrow”).Musgraves released her highly anticipated sophomore album, Pageant Material, on June 23rd where it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart and No.3 on the Billboard 200. Kacey co-wrote all tracks on the album and also co-produced teaming up again with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. Pageant Material includes debut single “Biscuits” and latest release, “Dime Store Cowgirl” available now at country radio. The album has been met with massive critical acclaim and recognition from press outlets all over the world. -
KACEY MUSGRAVES ANNOUNCES HOMECOMING BENEFIT SHOW.
NASHVILLE, TN (July 13, 2015) – GRAMMY-award winning artist, Kacey Musgraves, has announced a special homecoming show this fall in Mineola, Texas, on September 26 at the Mineola Nature Preserve. The announcement comes in the midst of an already-busy second half of 2015 for Musgraves, whose latest tour, The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue, kicks off in August.The country star plans to donate all proceeds from the event, which will include local food vendors and a live auction, to the art and music programs in the Wood County school system. Up-and-coming country acts John & Jacob and Wade Bowen will serve as the show’s openers, and Wood County students will provide additional entertainment.“I’m so excited to be coming back to my hometown to play and help in keeping music and art programs alive in schools! I was lucky to have a solid support system as a kid and I can only hope that a fun event like this will be a small step for someone else,” said Musgraves.Tickets for the show will go on sale Friday, July 17, and will be available on www.kaceymusgraves.com and at the Mineola Town Hall.For more information on Kacey Musgraves visit www.kaceymusgraves.com -
KACEY MUSGRAVES ENLISTS THE HELP OF A SPECIAL PERSON ON HER NEW ALBUM.
Kacey Musgraves spent a lot of time on her latest album, Pageant Material, and inserted some cool moments into the song. The most special moment is at the beginning of the song, “This Town,” in which she placed the voice of her grandmother (aka Memaw), who passed away last year.
“There’s a really special moment that happens in the beginning of this song that you’ll hear and it’s a woman’s voice, and it’s my Memaw’s – Barbara Taylor – she passed away last December. It’s my mom’s mom. She was the most interesting woman ever, and she worked in the ER. Her whole career basically, she was an ER nurse. So, she always had these insane stories of like all these crazy people coming in,” says Kacey. “A couple of years ago, she came over to the house and we were all sitting around. It was my mom and dad and my sister and me and her, and we got her going on the stories again, and I secretly pressed record secretly on my phone, and I got all these stories of all these people coming in and things that she saw. And I had forgotten that I did that.”
Her co-writer, Shane McAnally, urged her to use the recording in the song. “Whenever we were producing ‘This Town,’ I kind of pictured like a radio or like a TV in the background, or like small town conversation. I was going through my voice notes, and…I brought that up. I was like, ‘I have this audio of Memaw talking,’ and he said, ‘What if we put that in the song?’ And it was brilliant, so we found a good part of the story and put it in there.”
For all you vinyl collectors out there, the (pink!) Pageant Material vinyl record is available this Friday.
Audio / Kacey Musgraves talks about the song “This Town,” and reveals that there’s a very special moment included in the beginning of the song.
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“There’s a really special moment that happens in the beginning of this song that you’ll hear and it’s a woman’s voice, and it’s my Memaw’s – Barbara Taylor – she passed away last December. It’s my mom’s mom. She was the most interesting woman ever, and she worked in the ER. Her whole career basically, she was an ER nurse. So, she always had these insane stories of like all these crazy people coming in, ‘these crackheads’… It was a small-town hospital that she worked in, so she would see everything. Just crazy. So we’d always, every time we’d get together with her, we’d be like, ‘What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen lately? Tell us some stories.’ A couple of years ago, she came over to the house and we were all sitting around. It was my mom and dad and my sister and me and her, and we got her going on the stories again, and I secretly pressed record secretly on my phone, and I got all these stories of all these people coming in and things that she saw. And I had forgotten that I did that. I never told anyone.”
Audio / Kacey Musgraves reveals how her Memaw’s voice ended up on the song, “This Town.”
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“Whenever we were producing ‘This Town,’ I kind of pictured like a radio or like a TV in the background, or like small town conversation. I was going through my voice notes, and I think it was Shane, I brought that up. I was like, ‘I have this audio of Memaw talking,’ and he said, ‘What if we put that in the song?’ And it was brilliant, so we found a good part of the story and put it in there. She’s talking about this girl — and I memorized the whole thing – but she’s like, ‘We had a girl that came in with a drug overdose the other day, and she got real belligerent, and she bit one of the nurses. And I mean, she bit, you could see every tooth.’ She’s like, ‘Took two or three of us to get her off of her.’ And in the end, she says, ‘Yeah, you get some crazy ones.’ And then the song starts.”Video / Kacey Musgraves on This Town
This Town. A special one to me. Written with Luke Laird & Brandy Clark. Might be my fave on Pageant Material
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KACEY MUSGRAVES’ PAGEANT MATERIAL BOWS AT NO. 1 ON THE COUNTRY ALBUM CHART.
Kacey Musgraves debuted atop the country album chart with her latest album, Pageant Material. The collection sold more than 54,000 copies to land at No. 1 on the country album chart and No. 3 on the overall Billboard album chart.
While she didn’t have as much time to put together her second album, she said every song starts with her. “I really love how songs make me feel when I write them and taking things I’ve gone through and putting them in songs,” says Kacey. “So, it starts with me, and if other people like it, that’s awesome.”
Kacey launches her Country & Western Rhinestone Revue Tour August 27th in Atlanta.
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“The second time around, it’s interesting. There’s not as much time involved, that’s one thing that’s a little difficult. But two, I just feel like just because there’s more eyes and ears now listening out there that know who I am and are listening and watching or whatever, I don’t think it should change, I don’t want it to change what I think is good. Because the truth is that these songs selfishly start to make me happy because I really love how songs make me feel when I write them and taking things I’ve gone through and putting them in songs. So, it starts with me, and if other people like it, that’s awesome.” -
KACEY MUSGRAVES ANNOUNCES NEW TOUR, THE KACEY MUSGRAVES COUNTRY & WESTERN RHINESTONE REVUE.
NASHVILLE, TN (June 23, 2015) – GRAMMY Award winner, Kacey Musgraves, has announced dates for her new tour, The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue, beginning in Atlanta on August 27 and wrapping in Amsterdam on November 22. The tour hits a series of iconic venues including The Wiltern, Ryman Auditorium, The Apollo Theatre, and Royal Albert Hall. See a complete listing of dates below.The launch of the tour comes hot on the heels of Musgraves’ latest critically acclaimed album, Pageant Material, out today on Mercury Nashville. Billboard describes Pageant Material as an “even better album than her last” while the Associated Press praises the album for “how stridently it seeks to express a distinctive style of its own rather than fit into any contemporary formulas.”Fans can visit www.kaceymusgraves.com for the most updated pre-sale information, tickets, and VIP packages. Public on-sale tickets for The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revuego on sale Friday, June 26.The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue:8/27 – Atlanta, GA / The Buckhead Theatre9/11 – Los Angeles, CA / The Wiltern9/18 – St. Louis, MO / The Pageant9/23 – Nashville, TN / Ryman Auditorium10/1 – Detroit, MI / Royal Oak Music Theatre10/3 – Philadelphia, PA / The Trocadero Theatre10/9 – New Orleans, LA / The Howlin’ Wolf10/11 – Tulsa, OK / Cains Ballroom10/15 – Charlottesville, VA / Paramount Theater10/16 – Washington, DC / Lincoln Theatre10/23 – New Haven, CT / College Street Music Hall10/24 – New York, NY / Apollo Theater11/9 – Gateshead, UK / Sage Gateshead11/10 – Birmingham, UK / The Institute11/12 – Dublin, Ireland / Dublin Academy11/15 – Glasgow, UK / Glasgow ABC11/16 – Manchester, UK / Albert Hall11/18 – London, UK / Royal Albert Hall11/20 – Hamburg, Germany / Knust11/22 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Melkweg -
KACEY MUSGRAVES LISTENED TO LEGENDARY ARTISTS PRIOR TO RECORDING NEW ALBUM.
Kacey Musgraves listened to a lot of older music when she was getting ready to make her new album, Pageant Material.
“Leading up to this record, I was really listening to a lot of – and still am – Jim Croce. I really love his writing and his melodies, and of course Glen Campbell is a huge influence all around. I just, I love his music,” says Kacey. “Nancy Sinatra, of course Loretta, there’s even a little Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder floating around in there. Charley Pride, Charlie Rich was another one. That era of country music is really inspiring to me.”
Check her out when she performs on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday (June 23rd).
Audio / Kacey Musgraves reveals what she was listening to before making her new album, Pageant Material.
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“Leading up to this record, I was really listening to a lot of – and still am – Jim Croce. I really love his writing and his melodies, and of course Glen Campbell is a huge influence all around. I just, I love his music. Nancy Sinatra, of course Loretta, there’s even a little Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder floating around in there. Charley Pride, Charlie Rich was another one. That era of country music is really inspiring to me.” -
NEWS AND NOTES: Toby, LBT, Kacey, Dierks
Toby Keith became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York City last week. Comedian and TV show host Stephen Colbert honored him. Songwriter Bobby Braddock (“He Stopped Loving Her Today,” “Time Marches On,” “People Are Crazy”), Cyndi Lauper, Jerry Garcia, Linda Perry, Willie Dixon and Robert Hunter were also inducted.
Little Big Town was featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood over the weekend. The band, who taped their interviews last year and earlier this year, talked about their longevity as a group, their induction into the Grand Ole Opry and their latest smash hit, “Girl Crush.”
Kacey Musgraves is scheduled to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, the release day of her new album Pageant Material. She’ll also perform on ABC’s The View on Wednesday.
Dierks Bentley will perform during NBC’s Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on Saturday, July 4th beginning at 8pm ET. Brad Paisley, Kelly Clarkson and Meghan Trainor are also scheduled to perform.
Video / LBT on CBS Sunday Morning
