It’s been just over a decade since Kacey Musgraves released her first album,Same Trailer Different Park, and brought her funny, bawdy, cool-girl sensibility to country music. Since then, she has earned a reputation as the weed-smoking, gay-friendly rebel of the genre. When Allison P. Davis caught up with her recently for the Cut’s March cover story, on the eve of her new album,Deeper Well, she found that some of that label still fits — Musgraves has quit pot, but she’s as sassy and quick-witted as ever — and some feels like a persona from her 20s that she has very much outgrown. After ten years in the spotlight, experiments with pop, and a very public divorce, the new Musgraves is still a seeker with a knack for the lyric-ready profound thought, but she’s also more grounded, more introspective, and more at peace with herself.
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