Nashville, TN – Mercury Records singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves has taken her debut album Same Trailer Different Park to international markets with its release in the UK last Monday. Three days after its release, the album sits in the No. 2 position on the iTunes Country Chart, behind Taylor Swift.
About her time in the UK, Musgraves says, “It’s been an absolute delight coming to the UK. I’m impressed by the super response from fans who seemed to know more lyrics to sing along to than even the Americans! The British really stand behind artists they believe in and I can’t wait to come back!”
The same night she released Same Trailer Different Park, Musgraves performed to a sold out crowd at London’s Bush Hall, a show The Guardian gave 4 out of 5. Also, The Guardian has given Musgraves’ Same Trailer Different Park high marks touting “Not since the emergence of Taylor Swift has there been as much buzz in the genre about a young artist’s crossover potential,” adding “She [Musgraves] sings with an affectless detachment…and uses it to cut sharply through the lies people tell themselves…”
While abroad, Kacey has performed on the BBC Radio 2 Bob Harris show, the BBC Radio 4 Front Row show and this coming Saturday she will appear on Breakfast TV on BBC1.
Her debut single, “Merry Go Round,” was recently certified gold by the R.I.A.A. (Recording Industry Association of America). Kacey is currently making her way up the country charts with her latest release, “Blowin’ Smoke.”
AUDIO: Kacey Musgraves talks about co-producing her debut album, Same Trailer, Different Park, with tunesmiths Luke Laird and Shane McAnally.
Kacey Musgraves (coproducing album) OC: …it different. :55
“I learned so much coming into this and getting the freedom to be a co-producer on this as well as Luke Laird and Shane McAnally — two of my really good friends I met when I came to town. Man, we just really got to experiment and really play around with sounds and take our time and nothing made it to any track that didn’t absolutely feel 100% me or right for the song. That’s kind of my favorite part. You make the record and then you go into produce into promotion mode and you know, you play shows, which is awesome and is just as important. But I’m pretty sure my favorite part is getting the song out of my brain onto the paper and just the whole construction of it all. Just figuring out what feels right and taking things away and adding things. And the combo of my brain and Luke Laird and Shane McAnally’s brains, it just organically came together to make this cool-feeling thing, and I’m thankful too that I got to make it with friends. We got, as friends, to experience this together and I think it made it different.”
