{"id":457749,"date":"2026-10-06T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:10:19","slug":"kacey-musgraves-to-bring-middle-of-nowhere-tour-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457749\/","title":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves to bring Middle of Nowhere Tour to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKacey Musgraves, a hometown hero, had her sister take most of her album art for “Middle of Nowhere.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Kelly Christine Sutton<\/p>\n

After exploring different shades of country music on previous albums \u2014 journeys through the Celtic and folk-rooted \u201cDeeper Well\u201d and pop-country critically-acclaimed \u201cGolden Hour\u201d \u2014 Kacey Musgraves returns <\/a>to her earlier sound with \u201cMiddle of Nowhere.\u201d Now, Musgraves is bringing her eponymous tour to the American Airlines Center for a two-night stand from October 10-11.<\/a><\/p>\n

We recently caught up with <\/a>the Golden, Texas-raised singer-songwriter to talk about the wide-ranging themes of the new record, the traditional and regional sounds that shape modern country, and her sparkly new tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to explore all of these different sounds that co-exist alongside country,\u201d Musgraves tells us. \u201cCountry is a melting pot genre, and it came from a lot of different places, and different music and cultures have contributed to the sound that it has today.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says \u201cMiddle of Nowhere\u201d is \u201ca love letter to all of these different flavors of country music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The record is rooted by warm guitar textures while nodding to Louisiana Zydeco music, Tejano music from Northern Mexico and the Czech polka tradition. Though she says these sounds have long shaped her understanding of country music and informed her music for much of her career.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is a big melting pot of different cultures, and I think that\u2019s one of the most interesting parts of growing up as a Texan,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

After splitting her time living in Mexico in recent years, Musgraves was inspired to explore the cross-cultural borders of Texas music<\/a>, incorporating facets of Tejano and Norte\u00f1o music, as heard on tracks like the penultimate breakout track, \u201cMexico Honey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy creative endeavors just naturally follow wherever I am at that time in my life. Whatever I am listening to or ingesting through osmosis, it finds a way to inspire me,\u201d Musgraves says.<\/p>\n

Musgraves\u2019 Texan roots \u2014 including time spent right here in Big D \u2014 also permeates the album, leading to the visual inspiration for \u201cMiddle of Nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe roamed around Dallas to all these different spots, looking for somewhere that gave us a sense of that middle-of-nowhere liminal space,\u201d she says about the record\u2019s cover art, taken by her sister. \u201c\u2026 There was something in the metaphor of having a bull behind me. You can take it a bunch of different ways; whether that\u2019s your fears are behind you or the bullshit is behind you and learning to face it or look away from it. It was intimidating to have a real bull behind me. He was real docile and very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t take the Texas out of the cowgirl<\/p>\n

The homecoming shows in Dallas will see Musgraves perform for more than 40,000 people across two nights. Coming home always feels like a full circle moment for Musgraves, who cut her teeth performing around the city for \u201cas long as [she] can remember.\u201d Musgraves\u2019 parents, who are often in attendance for her Dallas shows, encouraged her dream of becoming a country singer and would \u201cload up the van and travel state to state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine what I\u2019d be doing now if I didn\u2019t have that support,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t think things would have turned out the same. I\u2019m grateful that I had parents to champion my interest, and I was able to have the time to explore who I was creatively before having it put out on an international level. I was grateful to have that footing and compass and who I wanted to be rather than, \u2018I want to be famous.\u2019 If I\u2019m going to do this, I want it to be on my terms creatively.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Middle of Nowhere Tour, the at-times rotating stage is shaped like a star while the setlist leans heavily into Musgraves\u2019 Lone Star sensibilities \u2014 she closes the show with a reworked version of George Strait\u2019s \u201cAll My Ex\u2019s Live in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost immediately upon hitting the road, the tour received a lot of attention on social media for two very big, shiny reasons: As she reaches \u201cRhinestoned,\u201d in the setlist, Musgraves is lifted into the air while perched on a pair of mirror-covered supersized testicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really not a heights girl, so I was a little nervous being up there,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I have a seatbelt so I\u2019m strapped into the balls and I\u2019m not going anywhere. They told me that if there was any malfunction, then they\u2019d have to get me down via a large ladder, which would be absolutely insane \u2026 It\u2019s a fun part of the show and I guess you could say I\u2019m really having a ball out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Middle of Nowhere Tour comes through Dallas Oct. 10-11 at the American Airlines Center. Tickets are available<\/a> now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves, a hometown hero, had her sister take most of her album art for “Middle of Nowhere.”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1467,2172,102,104,103,64,4660,2596],"class_list":["post-457749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-concert-previews","tag-country-music","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-events","tag-interviews","tag-local-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}