high horse

Loving this disco country track from Kacey Musgraves and trying my best not to wear it out.

butterflies

Kacey Musgraves returns with mellow "Butterflies." Love the synth stabs.

top 10 albums of the year: #10

10.

Midwest Farmer's Daughter - Margo Price


Recorded in a mere three days at the legendary Sun Studio on Jack White's Third Man label, Nashville-based Margo Price's debut is an unfussy, raw slate of vintage country tunes. The opening "Hands of Time" turns cliches counterclockwise. The bouncy honky-tonk of "Hurtin' on the Bottle" and "Desperate and Depressed" would be at home with Kenny, Loretta, Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings' repertoire of barroom toe-tappers in their ironic structuring of sad lyrics woven into a major key. It's an album that holds both a sense of deep familiarity and surprise.

"I don't know what's drawn me to it [country music] so much, but I think a lot of the tragedy and the lonesomeness, there's something uplifting in there as well. It's like when you hear George and Tammy sing a song about divorce." -Margo Price

love on the weekend

John Mayer's first single in a while. Easy-listening country stuff.