Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, is out in the wild. In a press release, Beyoncé provided extensive insight into the making of the album and its variety of influences. Plus, read our review the album here.
Each Song Was Inspired by a Western Film
Notably, each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film, including Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers For Marseilles; James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy; Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight; Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys; Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall; and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Often times, they films were playing on a screen during the recording process.
Additionally, some aspects of the album’s percussion were inspired by the Coen Brothers’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Beyoncé also found inspiration in traditional country, R&b, blues, zydeco, and Black folk music, as well as from her childhood trips to the Houston Rodeo.
Each Song Was Inspired by a Western Film
Notably, each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film, including Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers For Marseilles; James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy; Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight; Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys; Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall; and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Often times, they films were playing on a screen during the recording process.
Additionally, some aspects of the album’s percussion were inspired by the Coen Brothers’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Beyoncé also found inspiration in traditional country, R&b, blues, zydeco, and Black folk music, as well as from her childhood trips to the Houston Rodeo.
- 3/29/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Grammy-winning country singer Kacey Musgraves has thrilled fans with the announcement of her highly anticipated Deeper Well World Tour, in celebration of her upcoming fifth studio album of the same name. The tour will kick off on April 28 in Dublin, Ireland, and mark Musgraves’ return to the stage after a period of absence.
The European and UK leg of the tour will be supported by Madi Diaz, while the North American shows, which will start on September 4 in State College, Pennsylvania, will feature performances by Father John Misty, Lord Huron and Nickel Creek. The tour will conclude on December 7 in Musgraves’ hometown of Nashville.
In an Instagram post accompanied by a tour poster, Musgraves invited fans to join her on a journey into the depths of the Deeper Well.
Alongside the tour announcement, Musgraves unveiled a new track from her forthcoming album titled Too Good To Be True. The song...
The European and UK leg of the tour will be supported by Madi Diaz, while the North American shows, which will start on September 4 in State College, Pennsylvania, will feature performances by Father John Misty, Lord Huron and Nickel Creek. The tour will conclude on December 7 in Musgraves’ hometown of Nashville.
In an Instagram post accompanied by a tour poster, Musgraves invited fans to join her on a journey into the depths of the Deeper Well.
Alongside the tour announcement, Musgraves unveiled a new track from her forthcoming album titled Too Good To Be True. The song...
- 3/22/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Kacey Musgraves invited Noah Kahan on stage in Nashville on Friday to perform their duet, “She Calls Me Back.” Watch a clip of the performance below.
The duet took place during Kacey Musgraves’ album release show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Friday, March 15th, where she played her new album Deeper Well in full. After Musgraves finished playing the album, she invited Noah Kahan onstage for an encore of “She Calls Me Back,” a song that originally appeared on Kahan’s Stick Season LP and later released as a duet with Musgraves. She concluded her set with a rendition of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” which she covered earlier this year for the soundtrack of the recently-released biopic Bob Marley: One Love.
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In addition to celebrating the release of Deeper Well last weekend, Kacey Musgraves also added a special bonus track, “Ruthless,...
The duet took place during Kacey Musgraves’ album release show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Friday, March 15th, where she played her new album Deeper Well in full. After Musgraves finished playing the album, she invited Noah Kahan onstage for an encore of “She Calls Me Back,” a song that originally appeared on Kahan’s Stick Season LP and later released as a duet with Musgraves. She concluded her set with a rendition of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” which she covered earlier this year for the soundtrack of the recently-released biopic Bob Marley: One Love.
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In addition to celebrating the release of Deeper Well last weekend, Kacey Musgraves also added a special bonus track, “Ruthless,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
On the eve of the debut of her new album, Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for an interview and performance of her song “The Architect.”
Seated center-stage on a dirt floor surrounded by a lush floral scene, Musgraves delivered the Deeper Well cut alongside her band, singing the hymn-like melody over a bedding of acoustics, banjos, and backing vocals. As she finished, Fallon exclaimed “Come on, that is how you do it!” Watch a video of the performance below.
In her interview, Musgraves spoke to Fallon about Deeper Well, her upcoming tour, getting a speeding ticket in Iceland, and more. Watch the interview below.
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After the interview and performance aired and clocks across the country hit midnight, Deeper Well arrived. Produced by Musgraves with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, the album is poetic with a dreamy mood, praised...
Seated center-stage on a dirt floor surrounded by a lush floral scene, Musgraves delivered the Deeper Well cut alongside her band, singing the hymn-like melody over a bedding of acoustics, banjos, and backing vocals. As she finished, Fallon exclaimed “Come on, that is how you do it!” Watch a video of the performance below.
In her interview, Musgraves spoke to Fallon about Deeper Well, her upcoming tour, getting a speeding ticket in Iceland, and more. Watch the interview below.
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After the interview and performance aired and clocks across the country hit midnight, Deeper Well arrived. Produced by Musgraves with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, the album is poetic with a dreamy mood, praised...
- 3/15/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
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“My Saturn has returned,” Kacey Musgraves sings on “Deeper Well,” the lead single from her fifth studio album of the same name, due March 15. Now the Grammy-winning country star will make her return to the road for a worldwide trek for the Deeper Well World Tour,...
Quick Answer: Fans can find Kacey Musgraves tickets on Ticketmaster, as well as sites like StubHub or Vivid Seats if seats sell out.
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“My Saturn has returned,” Kacey Musgraves sings on “Deeper Well,” the lead single from her fifth studio album of the same name, due March 15. Now the Grammy-winning country star will make her return to the road for a worldwide trek for the Deeper Well World Tour,...
- 3/11/2024
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Kacey Musgraves served as musical guest on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, where she supported her new album Deeper Well.
The Nashville singer-songwriter performed “Deeper Well” and “Too Good to be True,” which you can replay below.
Deeper Well, Musgraves’ sixth studio album, arrives on March 15th via McA Nashville / Interscope. To support the release, she’ll embark on an extensive tour beginning in April. The North American leg of the jaunt will feature support from Father John Misty, Lord Huron, and Nickel Creek.
Tickets to Musgraves’ 2024 tour will go on sale starting Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.
Last night’s appearance marked Musgraves’ third time as musical guest on SNL. She previously appeared on the show in 2018 and 2021.
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The Nashville singer-songwriter performed “Deeper Well” and “Too Good to be True,” which you can replay below.
Deeper Well, Musgraves’ sixth studio album, arrives on March 15th via McA Nashville / Interscope. To support the release, she’ll embark on an extensive tour beginning in April. The North American leg of the jaunt will feature support from Father John Misty, Lord Huron, and Nickel Creek.
Tickets to Musgraves’ 2024 tour will go on sale starting Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.
Last night’s appearance marked Musgraves’ third time as musical guest on SNL. She previously appeared on the show in 2018 and 2021.
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- 3/3/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Kacey Musgraves has announced an extensive tour in 2024 in support of her new album, Deeper Well. Additionally, she’s released the second single from Deeper Well in the form of “Too Good to be True.”
The “Deeper Well World Tour” kicks off in the UK and Europe in April with a run of shows featuring support from Madi Diaz. A lengthy North American run of arena shows will then commence in September, including multiple nights in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Dallas, Austin, and Musgraves’ hometown of Nashville. Father John Misty, Lord Huron, and Nickel Creek will all serve as support on Musgraves’ North American leg.
Tickets to Musgraves’ 2024 tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster. A variety of pre-sales will take place in the days leading up to the public on-sale, including ones specific to the artist, Spotify, and American Express Card Members.
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The “Deeper Well World Tour” kicks off in the UK and Europe in April with a run of shows featuring support from Madi Diaz. A lengthy North American run of arena shows will then commence in September, including multiple nights in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Dallas, Austin, and Musgraves’ hometown of Nashville. Father John Misty, Lord Huron, and Nickel Creek will all serve as support on Musgraves’ North American leg.
Tickets to Musgraves’ 2024 tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster. A variety of pre-sales will take place in the days leading up to the public on-sale, including ones specific to the artist, Spotify, and American Express Card Members.
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- 2/29/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Nickel Creek and Andrew Bird are teaming up for a Summer 2024 co-headlining tour.
After kicking off on July 5th in Jacksonville, Oregon, the joint trek will also make stops in cities like Boise, Minneapolis, and Atlanta before wrapping up on July 20th in North Charleston, South Carolina. See the full touring itineraries for both artists below.
A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Wednesday, January 31st (use access code Spotlight) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, February 2nd via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
“Ahhh!!! We can’t even Begin to express our excitement to be back on the road with Andrew Bird!” said Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile in a statement.
After kicking off on July 5th in Jacksonville, Oregon, the joint trek will also make stops in cities like Boise, Minneapolis, and Atlanta before wrapping up on July 20th in North Charleston, South Carolina. See the full touring itineraries for both artists below.
A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Wednesday, January 31st (use access code Spotlight) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, February 2nd via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
“Ahhh!!! We can’t even Begin to express our excitement to be back on the road with Andrew Bird!” said Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile in a statement.
- 1/29/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
When Tyler Childers was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Honors & Awards, he let loose with an acceptance speech for the ages, denying the very term “Americana” and pointedly declaring himself a country artist.
“As a man who identifies as a country music singer, I feel Americana ain’t no part of nothin’,” he said onstage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium that year. “It is a distraction from the issues that we are facing on a bigger level as country music singers.”
Despite that sharply worded speech,...
“As a man who identifies as a country music singer, I feel Americana ain’t no part of nothin’,” he said onstage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium that year. “It is a distraction from the issues that we are facing on a bigger level as country music singers.”
Despite that sharply worded speech,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Singer Bebe Rexha was struck by a cell phone thrown from a man in the audience at Rexha’s rooftop concert in the South Street Seaport neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.
According to local reports, Rexha was transported to a nearby hospital and received three stitches following the phone-tossing incident.
Local ABC affiliate Wabc reports that 27-year-old concertgoer Nicolas Malvagna of Manalapan, New Jersey, was charged with assault. Malvagna is in police custody and is expected to be arraigned later Monday.
Today, Rexha posted two photos on her Instagram page, with one showing a blackened left eye beneath two strips of surgical tape. The second photo shows a small, red scar just below her left eyebrow.
“I’m good,” the singer writes in a brief message accompanying the photos. In the first photo, Rexha smiles and gives a thumbs-up gesture.
The incident occurred during Rexha’s preformance at The Rooftop at Pier 17 around 10 p.
According to local reports, Rexha was transported to a nearby hospital and received three stitches following the phone-tossing incident.
Local ABC affiliate Wabc reports that 27-year-old concertgoer Nicolas Malvagna of Manalapan, New Jersey, was charged with assault. Malvagna is in police custody and is expected to be arraigned later Monday.
Today, Rexha posted two photos on her Instagram page, with one showing a blackened left eye beneath two strips of surgical tape. The second photo shows a small, red scar just below her left eyebrow.
“I’m good,” the singer writes in a brief message accompanying the photos. In the first photo, Rexha smiles and gives a thumbs-up gesture.
The incident occurred during Rexha’s preformance at The Rooftop at Pier 17 around 10 p.
- 6/19/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Margo Price and Charley Crockett were among the top nominees when the Americana Music Association announced the nominations for the 2023 Americana Honors & Awards on Tuesday via Twitter.
Price and Crockett are both up for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. For Price, that’d her LP Strays and its song “Change of Heart”; for Crockett, it’s The Man from Waco and the song “I’m Just a Clown.” Both will compete for Artist of the Year with Sierra Ferrell, Allison Russell, and Billy Strings,...
Price and Crockett are both up for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. For Price, that’d her LP Strays and its song “Change of Heart”; for Crockett, it’s The Man from Waco and the song “I’m Just a Clown.” Both will compete for Artist of the Year with Sierra Ferrell, Allison Russell, and Billy Strings,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Black Keys are spreading the "Fever," as the legendary concert series Austin City Limits prepares to return with seven new episodes of its 40th season. In a new exclusive preview clip from the Black Keys' forthcoming episode, the Nashville-via-Akron duo kick out a taut, twisting rendition of the Turn Blue single that spirals into a crunchy concluding freakout.
Austin City Limits returns to PBS on January 3rd with a performance from the Avett Brothers and bluegrass trio Nickel Creek. Austin hometown heroes Spoon will share the stage with...
Austin City Limits returns to PBS on January 3rd with a performance from the Avett Brothers and bluegrass trio Nickel Creek. Austin hometown heroes Spoon will share the stage with...
- 12/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source material generally elevates whatever artist is tackling it. There are so many transcendent moments in these 50 songs. Antony's trembling tenor veering "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" into a completely new direction. Beck making "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" sound like he wrote it. I could put this playlist on repeat, and it'd...
- 4/28/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
“Yellow” + bluegrass = Greencards
That’s not just a clever name: The Greencards are two Aussies and a Brit who formed a string band in Austin before moving to Nashville. They enrich American bluegrass with both an international musical range and a restlessness that distinguishes them from Nickel Creek and The Duhks. Their fourth album, Fascination, may be their most inventive yet, jetting from traditional instrumentals like “Little Siam” to more experimental numbers like “Water in the Well.” Eamon McLoughlin and Kym Warner use fiddles and mandolins as a rhythm section, plucking out beats on their strings, while Carol Young sings in her burnished soprano. Producer Jay Joyce, who has worked with Patty Griffin and Lisa Germano, creates a panoramic canvas to accommodate The Greencards’ zigzagging brushstrokes, but occasionally—especially on the overly ambient “Into the Blue”—the trio’s ambitions exceed their abilities. Overall, though, this musically curious album more...
That’s not just a clever name: The Greencards are two Aussies and a Brit who formed a string band in Austin before moving to Nashville. They enrich American bluegrass with both an international musical range and a restlessness that distinguishes them from Nickel Creek and The Duhks. Their fourth album, Fascination, may be their most inventive yet, jetting from traditional instrumentals like “Little Siam” to more experimental numbers like “Water in the Well.” Eamon McLoughlin and Kym Warner use fiddles and mandolins as a rhythm section, plucking out beats on their strings, while Carol Young sings in her burnished soprano. Producer Jay Joyce, who has worked with Patty Griffin and Lisa Germano, creates a panoramic canvas to accommodate The Greencards’ zigzagging brushstrokes, but occasionally—especially on the overly ambient “Into the Blue”—the trio’s ambitions exceed their abilities. Overall, though, this musically curious album more...
- 4/22/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Nickel Creek fiddler goes solo
Sara Watkins is a fine fiddler and guitar player—as tenure in Nickel Creek demands—but as a vocalist she might be even more compelling. Her voice is lush, warm and perfectly controlled, and she puts it to good use on her debut solo album. Singing about a lost love whose ghost haunts even the cupboards of her home, she slays on tearjerker “All This Time,” and later she gives Tom Waits’ homesick travelogue “Pony” a fittingly cinematic scope. Producer John Paul Jones (yes, of Led Zeppelin fame) leaves quiet spaces in songs like “My Friend” and “Bygones” that provide an elegantly spare backdrop for Watkins’ voice. She may not quite have the vocal calluses to convey the grit of John Hartford’s “Long Hot Summer Days” or the impish irony to put the necessary wink in Davíd Garza’s “Too Much,” but those are...
Sara Watkins is a fine fiddler and guitar player—as tenure in Nickel Creek demands—but as a vocalist she might be even more compelling. Her voice is lush, warm and perfectly controlled, and she puts it to good use on her debut solo album. Singing about a lost love whose ghost haunts even the cupboards of her home, she slays on tearjerker “All This Time,” and later she gives Tom Waits’ homesick travelogue “Pony” a fittingly cinematic scope. Producer John Paul Jones (yes, of Led Zeppelin fame) leaves quiet spaces in songs like “My Friend” and “Bygones” that provide an elegantly spare backdrop for Watkins’ voice. She may not quite have the vocal calluses to convey the grit of John Hartford’s “Long Hot Summer Days” or the impish irony to put the necessary wink in Davíd Garza’s “Too Much,” but those are...
- 4/13/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Leonard Cohen - Live In London "About fourteen or fifteen years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream," cracks Cohen on his sensational live album that casts him alongside Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon as an intelligent, sophisticated music elder statesmen. He then says, "I've also studied deeply in the philosophies, but cheerfulness kept breaking through," and if you know absolutely any of Leonard Cohen's songs (everybody's covered them) or heard any of his recordings, then you get that "cheerful" makes his vocabulary by way of accident or miracle. With a voice as bottomless as a pit (like Chris Rea's, Jon Mark's, kind of Neil Diamond's, and sometimes Robbie Robertson's), Leonard Cohen emotes from an even deeper source as he gets real personal with the listener and his characters like "Suzanne" ("...and you...
- 3/30/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
After a Grammy, rave reviews and platinum sales, alt.grass (blueternative?) trio Nickel Creek abruptly went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2007, and have yet to make good on the "for now" part of their "Goodbye (For Now)" tour. Still, the musical impulse burns deep in the scrappy acoustinauts with Chris Thile's 2008 solo album, the Watkins siblings' supergroup, W.P.A., and Thile's currently touring project, Punch Brothers. Fiddler Sara Watkins recently announced the upcoming release of her self-titled debut: an album of long-marinating songs penned during her time spent in L.A.
- 3/11/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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