Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

She's doing a stadium tour now opening for Eric Church, Ely Young Band , and headliner Kenny Chesney. Chesney has brought her onstage on multiple gigs on the tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxqtXt5SvUY

she don't sound so great in that video honestly but i dunno if she's built for stadium performance

she'll def never headline one, which i think makes tours like that kinda neat

her voice is too plain to suit arenas (which I suppose is why her club reviews got early notice).

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144348n

old-ish news feature on her. doesn't say anything too exciting but still a nice watch.

Really like Brandy Clark, the songs are just so well done. Lots of great little touches:

-leaving out the final refrain of "Divorce" is such a nice move, the song just hangs there as it fades out....
-love the organ and guitar swells in "Hungover", and the half chorus is another tasty choice...
-"Stripes": I'm a sucker for this sound, and dropping back to the minor chord on the final word, "stripes" in the chorus is just delicious....
-"He's some stranger's husband, and I'm some stranger's wife" is the heartbreakingest line I've heard in a long time....

Good stuff

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all otm

i have so many thoughts on brandy clark that i haven't managed to write down yet - i didn't know she was a lesbian

she seems to have taken down all but four songs from her soundcloud? so glad i got them before she did that. further research indicates that "the day she got divorced" has been done by reba mcentire and "crazy women" by leann rimes - neither as good as clark's own versions

"just like him" is exactly as much of a sucker punch as she intends it to be, especially the big line about love being like coming home but she came from a broken one

i'm hoping the soundcloud thing means they're gonna get a move-on with releasing the album for purchase... but who knows.

nyt piece can't have hurt

http://www.mtv.com/videos/brandy-clark/933582/stripes.jhtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgSLZvV9-Oc

woof
i hope she got well paid at least

this : Spaghetti Warehouse :: Taylor Swift : Katy Perry

that has to be the saddest oreo commercial ever

haha that song is actually kind of great. inspired me to go back to the album after leaving it alone for a while, and shit this thing is breaking my heart all over again.

this album has helped me a lot this year... feeling stuck, lost and occasionally going 'idgaf' :\

yeah it really nails a very particular state that is not great to be in and that there is not a lot of music that really articulates it so well

It's my wife's favorite album since high school, and that was, um, a while ago.

feel that way too dyl, especially about back on the map and is what it is

man do i ever wanna go off somewhere with her and settle into a satisfying marriage

i know it is borderline cruel to unearth something from when someone was a kid for one's amusement but i am just really glad she was an avril lavigne fan in 2002 <3

http://web.archive.org/web/20021020021100/http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kidscoops/story/0,14989,365507,00.html

"I’m really a big fan of punk music, although yodeling and that don’t go very well together. That will be for me to decide later."

Would buy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/3_Bar_Ranch_Cattle_Callin%27.jpeg/220px-3_Bar_Ranch_Cattle_Callin%27.jpeg

Never let it be said that Hank Williams III hasn't brought something new and different to the world of heavy metal. Danny Barnes of the Bad Livers once opined that a really fast speed metal tune was roughly the same tempo as an ordinary bluegrass breakdown, and Hank3 seems to have reached a similar corollary regarding the verbal speed of punk rock howlers like H.R. of the Bad Brains or Keith Morris of the Circle Jerks, and the syllable-crushing skills of a good auctioneer. Credited to Hank 3's 3 Bar Ranch, Cattle Callin is a 75-minute exercise in a genre Williams calls "Cattle Core," in which he marries speed metal guitar figures and high velocity double-kick drumming to recordings of livestock auctioneers as Hank cranks out neck-snapping tempos and sheets of metallic noise, while guys shout out one price after another for this steer or that heifer with a velocity that makes Hank sound like he's the one straining to keep up. If this sounds like a joke, Hank seems to be having fun with it, but he also shows a genuine respect for the these guys and their very real talents, and the music he weaves around the auctioneer's calls not only makes reasonable sense but twists in and out of the patterns of these found vocals with rough-hewn grace (though the pace is fast and relentless enough that there isn't much rhythmic ebb and flow).

follow your arrow is the next radio single it seems

oh huh

split between "hey, awesome" and a fleeting "woof, right before radio switches over to Christmas programming"

oh c'mon, it's not like radio doesn't break any songs in the 4th quarter of the year

ha, yeah, hence "fleeting"

"Merry Go Round" was released last September & it did ok!

shepherds bush show tonight! anyone else reaching?

it wasn't a single already??

me and teenaged me love this record so much

she did some nice work on jools holland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSvWO3Geai4

How was last night, The Lex? I couldn't make it, sadly.

Celebratory, great fun show last night. Couple of covers I didn't expect - Lovefool and something by Weezer (according to friend's audio recognition app). Very appreciative audience too.

yeah it was a surprisingly pan-genre show. she did the weezer song last time (i don't know it) but i was surprised by "i put a spell on you" and "three little birds"! both played quite straight, she didn't pretend to be a torch singer or (thankfully) do reggae, but she didn't countrify them either. she did a great job of linking them to her own songs: during "i put a spell on you" i was thinking, this reminds me of her bluesy version of "mama's broken heart" - which she then segued into. and during "step off" i thought, wow, never noticed the kind of ska rhythm, can totally imagine a reggae version of this song and then she segued into "three little birds".

pretty packed house and audience loved it, amazed by how much she's blown up - it was barely 6 months ago that she played to a not-at-all-sold-out bush hall.

i really love how undramatic her "mama's broken heart" is compared with miranda's raging theatricality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52LXiKaNlE

man that sounds awesome, excited to see her in a couple weeks

Just heard Same Trailer Different Park this weekend, recommended weirdly enough by someone I know as mainly a fan of dancehall/grime (lex might know him actually)...have fallen head over heels in love with it, so replayable!

What other stuff out there sounds like this?

Apparently, the Brandy Clark album. But I haven't actually heard that yet.

Otherwise, Pistol Annies and Miranda Lambert.

yeah the brandy clark album is incredible - she co-wrote a good chunk of the musgraves album so is probably the closest in terms of sound/songwriting. pistol annies debut is essential (their second album is good too). miranda lambert's entire career too, especially crazy ex-girlfriend. also would suggest sunny sweeney's concrete from a couple of years back - she's been a bit silent since then and a bit forgotten (last i looked she was crowdfunding the follow-up) but she absolutely belongs in the conversation

someone I know as mainly a fan of dancehall/grime (lex might know him actually)

any clues? i didn't think any of my dancehall/grime crew were paying attention when i talked about country, would be nice to be proved wrong

oh yeah and (another third of pistol annies) ashley monroe's like a rose

2***n?

nah don't know him

Ahhhh.

Will grab the other stuff you two have bigged up, cheers!

Lex is the expert here but Brandy Clark and Ashley Monroe are my post-Kacey finds.

Other things you might want to have a listen to, which might be a bit too, uh, country to match your request but which I love:

Lee Ann Womack, whose atitude is very different but, oh my, some of those songs. The last two LPs ("There's More Where That Came From" and "Call Me Crazy") are amazing, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS35hISn7x0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTr9pKw-5I

I can't find a better link to hearing "Sleeping With The Devil" than the clip of it on Amazon but it's an amazing record: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleeping-With-The-Devil/dp/B004MZC8Z4/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic

when i interviewed shane mcanally he said he got his first big writing break with lee ann womack, who was his favourite country singer back then!

xpost Wow! I dodn't know that!

("Sleeping With The Devil" is by Brennen Leigh btw, which is obv if you clicked the link but not obv if you didn't and thought it was more Lee Ann.)

I feel a bit bad for Sunny Sweeney, I'm not sure why she's not bigger than she is, you get the feeling she can't get nayone in the country music establishment to care about her.

the Brandy Clark album is good not great: her strength (modesty, well-observed songs) is also her weakness.

I can't recommend Lee Ann Womack's There's More Where That Came From more highly enough though.

the Brandy Clark album is good not great: her strength (modesty, well-observed songs) is also her weakness.

this is only a weakness in terms of her crossover potential, not in terms of the actual album or songs