Musgraves' album Middle of Nowhere has the dramatic detail of good fiction. The same is true of Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks, Jimmy McDonough's portrait of a gifted but tragic performer.

Musgraves’s seventh album, Middle of Nowhere, is a subtle redirection, a sequel to the stories about growing up in Texas that populated her 2010s work. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Musgraves’s core ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic, Ken Tucker, has something new and something old for us. There's the new album from one of country music's biggest stars, Kacey Musgraves. Ken thinks the best songs ...

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