Eight-time Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves will release her sixth studio album, Middle of Nowhere, on May 1.
The Lost Highway/Interscope set includes collaborations with Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings and Gregory Alan Isakov.
Musgraves has been teasing the 13-song collection on social media and through highway billboards, including posts where she and Lambert traded comments about previously trash-talking each other. The posts led to speculation that either the pair was feuding or had a duet coming. The latter was correct, with the country superstars coming together for a track called “Horses & Divorces.”
The album is prefaced with “Dry Spell,” a humorous, twangy track out today that addresses Musgraves’ 335-day period of abstinence in clever euphemisms: “I’m so lonely, lonely with a capital H if you know what I mean,” she sings, adding, “I’ve been sitting on a washing machine/ Ain’t nobody’s tool up in my shed.” Musgraves directed the video with Hannah Lux Davis.
The song is one of many that addresses a period where Musgraves was sometimes blissfully and sometimes woefully romantically unattached.
“The bulk of this record was made during the longest single period of my life,” said Musgraves in a statement, “And I found that for the first time, it actually felt incredible being alone, and existing in a space not defined by anyone else. I became fascinated with the concept of liminal space, both geographical and emotional. We don’t linger in these transitional, empty spaces long enough and rush to define where or whatever is next. I became so at ease with being in the ‘middle of nowhere’ in many senses, and sitting in the un-comfort of the undefined. I had a lot of time for creative ambling and leaning into myself in different ways; horses, humor, writing with my early collaborators again, and living out my very simple, inspired life between Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico.”
She produced the album, which takes its name from a sign in her small Texas hometown of Golden, with longtime collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk.
The album is Musgraves’ first since 2024’s Deeper Well, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. It included philosophical track “The Architect,” which won the Grammy for best country song in 2025.
Middle of Nowhere tracklist:
1. “Middle of Nowhere”
2. “Dry Spell”
3. “Back on the Wagon”
4. “I Believe in Ghosts”
5. “Abilene”
6. “Coyote” feat. Gregory Alan Isakov
7. “Loneliest Girl”
8. “Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy” feat. Billy Strings
9. “Horses and Divorces” feat. Miranda Lambert
10. “Uncertain, Texas” feat. Willie Nelson
11. “Rhinestoned”
12. “Mexico Honey”
13. “Hell on Me”
