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Country-pop star Kacey Musgraves<\/a> is back and tipping her cowboy hat as she announces a new album. Her seventh album, Middle of Nowhere<\/em>, is out May 1 via Lost Highway<\/a>. Leading the record is the single \u201cDry Spell\u201d and its cheeky music video co-directed by Musgraves and Hannah Lux Davis<\/a>, in which she roams a grocery store with amorous thoughts and fantasizes about hooking up with one of the employees. Check out that new song below.<\/p>\n Middle of Nowhere<\/em> is Musgraves\u2019 seventh studio album and follow-up to 2024\u2019s Deeper Well<\/em><\/a>. She wrote the record to process the ample creative time that arose when exiting the dating pool and, instead, \u201cleaning into\u201d herself while living across Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico. Helping her out along the way are Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov, who all have guest features on the album.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bulk of this record was made during the longest single period of my life,\u201d said Musgraves. \u201cI 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\u2019t 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 \u2018middle of nowhere\u2019 in many senses and sitting in the un-comfort of the undefined.\u201d<\/p>\n Musgraves returns to the microphone after scooping up another Grammy Award to add to her shelf last year. She took home Best Country Song<\/a> for \u201cThe Architect,\u201d bringing her total tally of wins up to eight. Last month, she praised<\/a> the 2026 Album of the Year winner<\/a> Bad Bunny after his invigorating Super Bowl Halftime Show<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n Read about \u201cBreadwinner\u201d from Star-Crossed<\/em><\/a> in The 100 Best Songs of 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n Middle of Nowhere<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n 01 Middle of Nowhere
02 Dry Spell
03 Back on the Wagon
04 I Believe in Ghosts
05 Abilene
06 Coyote [ft. Gregory Alan Isakov]
07 Loneliest Girl
08 Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy [ft. Billy Strings]
09 Horses and Divorces [ft. Miranda Lambert]
10 Uncertain, Texas [ft. Willie Nelson]
11 Rhinestoned
12 Mexico Honey
13 Hell on Me<\/p>\n