With 'Middle of Nowhere,' Kacey Musgraves Finds Equilibrium In The Great Unknown

Editor s Note: Annie Zaleski has been awarded one of two No Depression Criticism Fellowships to write in-depth album reviews on roots music s most important albums. The Criticism Fellowships kick off with this review of Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere, out today via Lost Highway.Nobody sets a vivid scene quite like Kacey Musgraves. Within the first 20 seconds of Middle of Nowhere, she sings of a desolate place “out there on the edge of world, way past common sense” that s a