Kacey Musgraves on Making Her Upcoming Tour Into a ‘Mini-Festival’ and Realizing That ‘You Can Have Bops in Many Different Ways’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Kacey Musgraves‘ arrow is leading her into U.S. arenas this fall, where she’ll be doing a show rooted in her new album, “Deeper Well,” which, as the title indicates, is about embracing the realness of life.
Is that a message and a mood that will carry over into a setting more often associated with big-scale surface pleasures? She’s confident the vibe will indeed translate from the grooves to the loges — for, as she puts it, “I think that you can have quote-unquote ‘bops’ in many different ways.” The tour has just gone on sale, and the album is out Friday — to be preceded Thursday night, for a few lucky fans in New York, by “American Express Presents: A Conversation with Kacey Musgraves: A Look Into ‘Deeper Well,'” a conversation being held at Webster Hall.
We didn’t go quite as deep with her about the album as the NYC event will, but chatted with the country-folk-pop sensation on the eve of her tour’s on-sale date about what she foresees for the fall outing, and which season(s) she believes the new record is most in line with. You proved with the “Star-Crossed” tour that you can headline arenas and make music that is largely based in reflection work in those spaces. My ultimate goal here is to make an arena feel as intimate as possible.
I think that’s a challenge in a room that is massive and made of concrete, and there are people physically sitting very far away from you when you’re performing.
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