It’s a song that pre-dates Same Trailer, so probably written when she had a publishing deal and was pitching songs around Nashville. I think Lee Ann Womack recorded it, but never put it on an album. Anyway, Kacey put it in the setlist on the Pageant Material tour, and told the story of it, including that all the details in it are true and it’s about this quirky friendly old lady that used to live in her building. I fell in love with it at one of those shows, but could never find a decent recording until now.
Would buy a collection of Kacey’s unreleased music from the early 2010s in a heartbeat. She was on a hell of a streak.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kacey-musgraves/2016/orpheum-theatre-boston-ma-7bf36adc.html In hindsight, how did I survive "It Is What It Is" into "Miserable" into "There's a Person There" into "Merry-Go-Round"
I saw her a week later, and got a very similar setlist. Only big difference I can remember is that I am 99% sure she played "Keep It to Yourself" when I saw her. Wild that this was 10 years ago. She played a 1,600-cap room in my old college town, at a venue that was absolutely hitting home runs with my music taste at the time. I saw Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, and Dawes there in the space of two years. She was definitely not playing venues that small when she came back around on the Golden Hour tour.
I saw her for the first time at a free show on Boston Common a little before that, too. It was not a huge crowd either, but man she was something special at that time. Every cover she picked, every B-side she played, it all worked like gangbusters. At that outdoor show she did "Three Little Birds", and a little country white girl doing Marley should not have worked, but she made it feel like she wrote it.
Golden Hour is her masterpiece (so far)…each record has had at least one VERY good song but the last two have def felt the weakest.
The new Maroney album didn't really do much for me but the one before it has some really solid tracks
Star-Crossed, no matter how many times I revisit, feels like a noble failure/whiff. Deeper Well is excellent, but in a career kind of way, not a "oh my god she's a genius on an all-time hot streak" record like the first 3 did.
I still like Star-Crossed a lot, probably slightly more than Deeper Well and not that far off Same Trailer. I feel like I like the rest of her stuff less than most people seem to so maybe that softens my opinion on that album. Pageant Material is still easily my favourite of hers and even that has a few weak spots.
I called that number to hear the song clip and immediately got a spam text to my phone but one that looks like it would get me in trouble with my wife haha