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.

Kacey Musgraves injects a little innocence in the song “Somebody to Love,” which her co-writer Shane McAnally says “sums up how we all feel.”

“I just really love the idea that everyone is just here living this existence and just looking for love, looking for somebody to love. I mean, I feel like that’s the human experience goal is that you just want somebody to love and somebody to love you in return,” says Kacey. “The idea, sometimes when I see people or meet people or I’m looking at my friends or whatever, I see like the little kid in them and I’m just like, it’s just easy for me to see each person as like the little boy or girl version of themselves. In the song, we say ‘we’re all just little kids looking for somebody to love.’

The tune, which was also written by Josh Osborne, is from Kacey’s new album, Pageant Material, due out Tuesday (June 23rd).

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Kacey Musgraves is featured on the cover of the July edition of Redbook magazine and inside, she talks about self-acceptance and how she’s found peace with her own musical path.

When critics are offended by some of her lyrics, such us “roll up a joint/or don’t” from her song, “Follow Your Arrow,” she says, “I’ve come to conclusion that people are always going to find a way to be offended about something, and it’s almost like they want to be. I won’t be everybody’s cup of tea. I’ve found peace in that. I’m cool with not being the biggest superstar on the planet. I don’t let people’s approval make or break what I’m doing.”

Many of her songs talk about self-acceptance, because it comes from some of the kids she grew up with not being able to be themselves. “After high school, my best friend came out to me, and he was like, ‘I don’t feel like I can be myself, and you’re the first person I’m telling,’” says Kacey. “That is still a lot of people’s reality. So if a kid feels like they can walk a little taller because of something I sang, I’m inspired by that.”

Kacey returns with her new album, Pageant Material, on Tuesday (June 23rd).

Kacey Musgraves’ new album, Pageant Material, is set for release next Tuesday (June 23rd), and one of the songs featured is “Dime Store Cowgirl,” which Kacey co-wrote with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. The title originates from a real experience Kacey had as a young pre-teen performer back in Texas, but talks about the many career moments she’s had over the last two years.

“I had this title saved for a while. It’s something that someone said to me a long time ago. I was probably 11 or 12, and this stage mom, this certain stage mom of this girl I used to sing with, well, we would wear these really Western outfits and she would like to wear hers down real low, and I like to cock my hat back, my cowboy hat, kind of retro-like, which I still think is really cute today,” says Kacey. “And I was like doing my own thing, and this stage mom came over and she was like, right before we went on stage, she was like, ‘Don’t wear your hat like that! You’re gonna look like some dime store cowgirl.’ So, there’s a song now.”

Kacey will perform a few tracks from her new album when she hits the stage Thursday night in Aspen, Colorado.

Kacey Musgraves is getting ready to release her sophomore album, Pageant Material, and the subject of one of the songs on the new project, “Family is Family,” should be relatable to just about everybody.

“I just love it, because no matter who you are, what family you’re a part of  — rich, poor, black, white, whatever – family is family. It’s all the same dynamic. Everybody’s got the crazy ones in their family, no matter how much they try to hide it. It’s just the truth, and so yeah, family’s family no matter what,” says Kacey. “That one was just really fun, because we got to sit there and dream up like, and laugh about just all these little nuances that happen in families.”

Pageant Material, which also features “Biscuits,” is set for release Tuesday (June 23rd).

Kacey Musgraves releases the lyric video for her single, “Biscuits,” the first release from Pageant Material, due out June 23rd.

Check out the ‘Baking’ of “Biscuits,” Kacey Musgraves new single below. It’s the first release from her forthcoming album, Pageant Material, which will be available June 23rd.