During the Grammy Nominations Live special on Friday night (December 6th), several Universal Music Group artists walked away with a nod or two. 

Kacey Musgraves picked up four Grammy nominations, including overall Best New Artist, Best Country Song for both “Merry Go ‘Round” and “Mama’s Broken Heart” and Best Country Album for Same Trailer Different Park. Darius Rucker picks up Best Country Solo Performance for “Wagon Wheel,” while Little Big Town’s “Your Side of the Bed” was nominated in the Best Duo/Group Country Performance, alongside “Highway Don’t Care” (Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban) and “Don’t Rush” (Kelly Clarkson with Vince Gill).

During the special, Keith Urban performed the Bill Withers’ classic, “Ain’t No Sunshine,” with R&B singer Miguel.

AUDIO: Kacey Musgraves describes how she came up with the title of her debut album, Same Trailer, Different Park.

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“All along I wanted the title to be something that stands out. I never wanted it to be one dimensional or completely obvious — you know, Kacey Musgraves… Or even Merry Go Round, you know? I kind of love it when album titles make you think, and sometimes they don’t even have anything to do with the actual, it’s just an abstract idea. This came from a lyric in ‘Merry Go Round’ and it’s one of my favorite lyrics in the record. The lyric is ‘Same hurt in every heart/same trailer, different park,’ and it kind of just means we’re all kind of in this together. We’re all hurt the same way. We all feel the same way, although we’re all different. That’s why I love it.”

AUDIO: Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook talks about “Your Side of the Bed,” which the band wrote with songstress Lori McKenna.

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“I’m proud of that song. It’s something different from what we’ve done before, and the harmonies are just powerful, and it almost takes you by surprise when it comes in that first time, because it’s just this big, it’s almost like crying out. And that’s what country songs have always been about – the saddest of sads – and I’m proud that we wrote that song with Lori [McKenna].”