Kacey Musgraves (This Town) 1 OC: …anyone. :54
“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.”

Kacey Musgraves (This Town) 2 OC: …song starts. :46
“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.”