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Kacey Musgraves made her ACM Awards debut with a playful, risqué performance of “Dry Spell” from Middle of Nowhere, opening on a washing machine and then moving through a cheeky grocery-store setup with suggestive signage; the country-leaning album was released May 1, 2026, and although she has seven ACM wins, she isn’t nominated this year as the ceremony features other performers.
Kacey Musgraves returns to her Texas roots on Middle of Nowhere, blending traditional country twang with música mexicana influences while enlisting guests like Willie Nelson, Billy Strings, and Miranda Lambert. The album juxtaposes witty, self-assured lyricism with heartfelt moments, celebrating a homecoming that’s both humorous and heartbreakingly honest. It’s her strongest full-length since Golden Hour, a cohesive, Texan-infused journey that anchors her evolving voice amid nostalgia and growth.
Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere returns to traditional country textures with a guest-heavy lineup (Billy Strings, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson) and a Texas-inspired thread. The album blends pedal steel, Tex-Mex touches, and ’70s rock as it surveys country subgenres, anchored by tracks like Dry Spell, Abilene, Everybody Wants to Be a Cowboy, and Rhinestoned. Musgraves sings mostly in a lower, more resigned register as she explores independence and imperfect romance, delivering a witty, cohesive, and confident pivot from Deeper Well and Golden Hour.
Kacey Musgraves returns to her roots with Middle Of Nowhere, her first Lost Highway release, blending country textures with folk and pop for a livelier, more varied set that reinvigorates her songwriting. With guests like Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson, and Billy Strings, the album offers witty, insightful tracks about love, single life, and homecoming—arguably her strongest work since Golden Hour.
Kacey Musgraves describes Middle of Nowhere as a return to country on her own terms, written during a long period of single life, blending humor with honesty (including the self-pleasure lyric from “Dry Spell”). The album features a late-added duet with Miranda Lambert and a cameo by Willie Nelson, was crafted with longtime collaborators, and is accompanied by a new tour after a period of personal growth and a Texas/Mexico-based sense of home.
Kacey Musgraves has tapped the Gámez-Cuéllar brothers—Antonio, Caleb and Joshua, members of Mariachi Oro—to open three Texas stops on her Middle of Nowhere tour at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels; the brothers were detained by ICE earlier this year during a court check-in linked to their asylum-seeking family and were released in March, a situation Musgraves says she wants to highlight by spotlighting Tejano and mariachi music on her upcoming album.
Kacey Musgraves reveals that her song Mama's Broken Heart was pitched to Miranda Lambert without her knowledge, fueling a rumored feud after Lambert recorded it for Lambert's 2013 Four the Record; Musgraves later wrote Merry Go Round, and the two have since reconciled enough to collaborate on a track for Musgraves' upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, due in May—a full-circle moment that leads to a joint song on the project.
Kacey Musgraves releases Dry Spell as the lead single from her upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, delivering a witty, innuendo-laced take on sexual boredom set to a Western-noir vibe with a minor-key Spanish guitar. Pitchfork's Lily Goldberg frames it as playful and unapologetic rather than seductive, highlighting its light, bloodless energy.
Kacey Musgraves releases the playful single 'Dry Spell' as the first taste from her sixth album Middle of Nowhere, set for a May 1, 2026 release. The NPR interview highlights her return to traditional country textures, a focus on aloneness and self‑reliance, and collaborative range including Willie Nelson and Miranda Lambert, plus cross‑genre flirtations and Mexican/Texan influences. Musgraves emphasizes balance in production, her movement between roots and border‑blurring sounds, and a label return that anchors the project in a country‑leaning yet expansive sonic landscape.
Kacey Musgraves announces her seventh full-length album, Middle of Nowhere, due May 1 via Lost Highway, led by the single Dry Spell and featuring guest appearances from Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov.