Kacey Musgraves really tapped into something special with Deeper Well. Her sixth studio album sees the 35-year-old Texan find her center (although it’s still rife with the trademark wordplay fans know and love.) Deeper Well debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, making it the artist’s highest entry on that chart. And apparently, Musgraves has more to say. Now, the “Golden Hour” singer is dropping an extended version of the folksy record.
Kacey Musgraves Announces New Music
The GRAMMY winner took to social media Tuesday (July 25) for a surprise announcement. “We’re going deeper,” Kacey Musgraves declared on Instagram.
An expanded version of Deeper Well will drop Aug. 2, bringing seven brand-new songs. However, Musgraves’ fans won’t have to wait that long to hear new music. “Irish Goodbye” is available tonight (Tuesday, July 25) at midnight, the singer announced.
“Still recovering from the og tracks and now this?” one Instagram user commented. “leo szn started stronger than ever.”
“…honestly, take us to the center of the 🌍,” another Instagram user wrote.
How John Prine Taught Kacey To Stay True To Herself
Kacey Musgraves’ successful career was just a pipe dream when she moved to Nashville from her small Texas hometown around 2007. It’s around that time that she recalls hearing John Prine’s music for the first time: “It sounded current to me, even though it was recorded in the ’70s.”
The pair struck up a relationship both personal and professional. Musgraves told Bitter Southerner that the “Illegal Smile” singer taught her to approach songwriting like a conversation with a friend.
“When you have these really intimate thoughts all day long about yourself, and how you relate to love, and how you relate to the world, and how you relate to other people … it’s just so comforting to have that exemplified in a song by another human,” she said. “I don’t know — there’s just something so magical about that to me.”
Prine died in April 2020 at age 73. “Deeper Well” opens with “Cardinal,” a dreamy, hallucinogenic paean to the man who “single–handedly impacted my songwriting more than anyone else.” Musgraves explained the song’s connection to the “Angel From Montgomery” singer in an accompanying zine.
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“He always had a big connection to cardinals and felt that they were messengers from the spirit realm,” wrote the “Merry Go Round” singer. “He inspired this song, no doubt.”
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