From disco-ball Truck Nutz to her first Spanish single, Kacey Musgraves loves life in the 'Middle of Nowhere'

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Set us as preferred On her current arena tour, Kacey Musgraves has dressed up as a Ronnie Dunn drag king, bringing the country legend himself onstage (“You look damn good, that’s all I’m saying,” he told her).Each night, Musgraves floats over the audience, cozily nestled in a giant set of disco ball Truck Nutz.

She brought out James Talarico, the Democratic Texan U.S.Senate hopeful, and roasted former Trump Department of Homeland Security official Kristi Noem with withering panache.“This tour has truly been the funnest one that I’ve ever been part of,” Musgraves said, on a Zoom call from the road a few days before her Middle of Nowhere tour stops in Los Angeles on Sunday and Monday at the Crypto.com Arena.

“I feel at my most comfortable.I’m gonna be really sad when this one’s over.”After her Grammy-conquering 2018 LP “Golden Hour,” Musgraves released an operatic divorce record, then a well-therapized pastoral folk album.

Her 2026 LP “Middle of Nowhere,” by contrast, is back in a classic mode of artful, often hilarious bangers about the loneliness of small town life and dating at the edge of 40.The lusty, dancehall-ready single “Mexico Honey” scored her first solo top 40 hit, and she just released her first single in Spanish, a version of “Uncertain, TX” with the legendary Texan Norteño band Intocable.Musgraves spoke with The Times’ about the anxiety and honor of singing in Spanish, the immortally savvy Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, and what it takes to get back in the saddle of dating after a very long dry spell.Riding those disco-ball Truck Nutz every night is quite the perk of your job.

I’m trying to imagine pitching that stage idea and making it real.To be actually sitting on that idea, yes.The side quests are the main quests now at this point.You in a Ronnie Dunn costume mus...