IS Kacey Musgraves too good to be true? The golden gal from Golden, Texas – you couldn't make that up – has two Grammys to her name at 26, the calendar looks and the country hooks of Dolly Parton and Bobbie Gentry, and a small-town radar that separates her from Nashville glitz.
After serving her apprenticeship on three independent albums, 2013's Same Trailer Different Park and in particular its single Merry Go Round announced a witty, warm and charming international talent.
Now "knowing more about myself and my direction", she has recorded the follow-up live, all the band in the same room, and if a little production polish has crept in, the songs, the playing, the instrumentation, are still old-school country, the voice sweet, the humour savvy, the lyrics homely but not without spice.
The whistling High Time, the wry Biscuits and the "only happy when your're" Miserable stand out, while Good Ol’Boys sets her gnashers into Nashville. Too good to be true? No, just real good.
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