{"id":345,"date":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/05\/12\/kacey-musgraves-following-her-own-arrow-to-the-top\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"kacey-musgraves-following-her-own-arrow-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/05\/12\/kacey-musgraves-following-her-own-arrow-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves: Following Her Own Arrow to the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Nashville is quickly becoming a mecca for artists of all genres. No longer is country and bluegrass music the only sounds coming from the recording studios in music city. With cross over artists writing, singing, and performing unique blends of country, bluegrass, rock, pop, R&B, reggae, and jazz melodies, we are trending towards a new millennium of country music. Kacey Musgraves is my kind of different good.<\/p>\n

Personal preference makes me tend to gravitate towards unique artists that shine a little differently than the rest. There\u2019s something alluring about those artists that go against the grain and march to the beat of their own drum. Different has always been better to me. While all the other artists are swimming downstream singing of solo cups and dirt roads, however catchy it is, it\u2019s becoming boring. And before you all get your knickers in a twist, I\u2019m a country gal and that was no slight towards solo cups and dirt roads. Heck, I\u2019m as country as a gal can get growing up in southern Illinois and Murfreesboro, TN. I have been known to drink from a red solo cup on the tailgate of a pickup, out on some ole dirt road in cut off shorts and a flannel shirt tied at the middle. I am the definition of country. Subject matter is not the issue.<\/p>\n

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Kacey Musgraves – MVCC Jorgensen Athletic Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hailing from Golden, Texas, this lovely young lady demonstrates a\u00a0quiet strength to me. Listening to the words of \u201cFollow Your Arrow\u201d and \u201cBiscuits\u201d, and “The Trailer Song”, it became crystal clear that Kacey tells it like it is. \u00a0She paints you a mental image with the music. \u00a0She sings of being your own person, makes no excuses for who she is, and definitely puts it straight to those who feel it’s their business to butt their noses in where they don’t belong.\u00a0 From the moment I heard the first line few lines of The Trailer Song, I knew I liked her. “You say that you’re watching the birds out your window, I’ve got a bird you can watch”. It’s her no-nonsense straight forward lyrics, combined with the twangy sound of classic country, that makes this new age young lady one of my all time favorites.<\/p>\n