NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
The Guardian Weekly|September 17, 2021
She’s already broken out of Nashville to become an unconventional pop superstar. Now Kacey Musgraves is stretching the limits of country again – with the help of psychedelics and a four-poster bed in her studio
Kacey Musgraves
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

It is mid-morning in Nashville and Kacey Musgraves is padding around her new home, looking in the fridge and checking on her dogs while she talks. She moved in in April, after spending a year having it renovated. From what I can see on Zoom, the results of her renovations are exceptionally tasteful, in a very up-market boutique hotel way: everything – walls, furniture, the floor – seems to be in shades of muted, natural off-white. As with the breakfast she’s just finished – which involved a very specific kind of rosemary sourdough, an equally specific kind of slow-cultured, grass-fed butter “from this place in Atlanta” and a “pretty fucked-up” Japanese machine that steams bread – it seems to suggest someone doing very well for themselves, which indeed Musgraves is.

In 2018, her fourth album, Golden Hour, finally broke through, fulfilling the line about her that people had used from the start: “ The country star for people who hate country music.” It went platinum in the US, made the top 10 in the UK, topped umpteen end-of-year critics’ lists and won four Grammys, including album of the year. It’s not unknown for a country artist to receive the latter award – the [Dixie] Chicks won it in 2007, as did Taylor Swift in the days when she was still country’s brightest young star rather than an all-conquering pop behemoth, and Glen Campbell in 1969 – but it doesn’t happen often.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 17, 2021 من The Guardian Weekly.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 17, 2021 من The Guardian Weekly.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

المزيد من القصص من THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY مشاهدة الكل
Putin's Call To De-Dollarise Alarms Some At BRICS Talks
The Guardian Weekly

Putin's Call To De-Dollarise Alarms Some At BRICS Talks

Vladimir Putin opened the expanded Brics summit last month by issuing a call for an alternative international payments system that could prevent the US using the dollar as a political weapon.

time-read
2 mins  |
November 01, 2024
Power in the darkness
The Guardian Weekly

Power in the darkness

Wolf Hall is back. As the extraordinary epic about King Henry VIII and his vengeful entourage edges to a climax, Timothy Spall reveals what it was like to play Cromwell's nemesis

time-read
4 mins  |
November 01, 2024
It's time for Trump's instincts to be called what they are: fascist
The Guardian Weekly

It's time for Trump's instincts to be called what they are: fascist

There is a good chance that on 5 November, Americans will elect the first fascist president of the United States.

time-read
3 mins  |
November 01, 2024
CASTLES IN THE AIR
The Guardian Weekly

CASTLES IN THE AIR

It was meant to be a dream development of mansions in the Turkish hills. But 13 years on, Burj AI Babas is a half-built ghost town, and a microcosm of the scandal-hit construction sector under Erdoğan. Will the buyers ever get to move in?

time-read
10+ mins  |
November 01, 2024
Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her The brain collector
The Guardian Weekly

Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her The brain collector

ALEXANDRA MORTON-HAYWARD, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium.

time-read
10+ mins  |
November 01, 2024
Dark times Blackouts spark fears of wider collapse
The Guardian Weekly

Dark times Blackouts spark fears of wider collapse

Maria Elena Cárdenas is 76 and lives in a municipal shelter on Amargura Street in Havana's colonial old town.

time-read
3 mins  |
November 01, 2024
Washington Post sparks fury over decision not to endorse
The Guardian Weekly

Washington Post sparks fury over decision not to endorse

Fury and shock ripped through liberal America last weekend after news that the Washington Post, home of the Watergate scandal exposé, will not endorse Kamala Harris for president.

time-read
2 mins  |
November 01, 2024
The great space waste
The Guardian Weekly

The great space waste

From chaotic collisions to depletion of the ozone layer, the thousands of satellites in orbit around Earth have the potential to wreak havoc

time-read
5 mins  |
November 01, 2024
New heights Teen Sherpa's fight for climbing equality
The Guardian Weekly

New heights Teen Sherpa's fight for climbing equality

Growing up as a sherpa in Nepal, Nima Rinji Sherpa was used to his relatives performing superhuman feats on the mountains.

time-read
3 mins  |
November 01, 2024
Plastic cave made in Spain keeps Amazonian culture alive
The Guardian Weekly

Plastic cave made in Spain keeps Amazonian culture alive

It is not yet dawn in Ulupuwene, an Indigenous village in the Brazilian Amazon, but the Wauja people have already risen to prepare for the festive day ahead.

time-read
3 mins  |
November 01, 2024