Although mainstream American country music has plenty of 'young people' it wasn't until listening to Kacey Musgrave's debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, that I realised there aren't that many 'young voices' – by which I obviously mean young songwriters. Championship Manager 3 Files Full Game 2010. Those songwriters would exist, of course, but they're not.

Kacey Musgraves could easily be contemporary country's next big thing. She's a sharp, detailed songwriter with a little bit of an edge, and while it's tempting to think of her as another coming of Taylor Swift, say, she's got the kind of relaxed sureness about what she's doing as a songwriter and performer that puts her closer to a Miranda Lambert. On her first nationally distributed album, Same Trailer Different Park, she definitely sounds more on the Lambert side of things, with a sparse, airy sound that lets her lyrics shine, and she'd as soon use a banjo in her arrangements as a snarling Stratocaster. From her debut single, the marvelous 'Merry Go 'Round' (which is included here as the third track), Musgraves showed an intelligent, careful writing style that is as pointed as it is poignant, and even though the song seems to skewer small-town country life, it does it without malice or agenda, and is really more just telling it true than anything else, a trait that ought to be treasured in Nashville but usually isn't. Nashville wants one to tell it true as long as that telling conforms to the template, which Musgraves isn't likely to do. 'Merry Go 'Round' might be the best song here, but there are others that are nearly as good, like the lilting, wise opener, 'Silver Lining,' the implausible 'Dandelion' (one wonders how she manages to make such a winning song out of such a metaphor, but she does), and the gutsy (and again, wise) 'Follow Your Arrow,' all of which feature clear-eyed observations, unintrusive but appropriate arrangements, and a certain flair for telling it like it is and making it sound like bedrock, obvious wisdom.

Musgraves has a sense of humor, too, and all of these traits add up to make Same Trailer Different Park more than a collection of songs just aiming for the country charts. ~ Steve Leggett.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Music and lyrics [ ] Same Trailer Different Park draws on styles such as,,, and catchy. Its songs are performed, and written from a perspective, featuring stories of challenges and setbacks faced by men and women who struggle with their surroundings. Lexmark Productivity Studio X2650 Drivers. 'Follow Your Arrow' examines the small-minded perspective of small-town life. On ', Musgraves sings over a and banjo about emotional, material, and addictive liabilities that prevent people from escaping restrictive lifestyles. Jonathan Bernstein of wrote that Musgraves' characters are 'well-wishers and help-seekers, deadbeats trying to be better and do-gooders that are falling behind', and that she focuses on 'small, pivotal moments, when they come to terms with their own faults and dreams, when they’re on the verge of a breakthrough or a meltdown.' Commercial performance [ ] Same Trailer Different Park debuted at No.

2 on the, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. It also entered at No. 1 on the chart. The week after winning two awards and performing at the, sales for the album in the United States increased 146%. The week of February 6, 2014, the album returned to No. 1 on the U.S. Top Country Albums Chart and saw sales increase a further 177%.

As of July 2015 the album has sold 519,000 copies in the US. Critical reception [ ] Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating 88/100 Review scores Source Rating A– A A– 8.3/10 B+ Same Trailer Different Park received universal acclaim from. At, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an score of 88 out of 100, which indicates 'universal acclaim' based on 11 reviews. Tammy Ragusa of called it 'distinctive in both its arrangements and lyrics.' 's Steve Leggett commended Musgraves' 'flair for telling it like it is and making it sound like bedrock, obvious wisdom', and said that the album is 'more than a collection of songs just aiming for the country charts.' 's called her 'the finest lyricist to rise up out of conscious country since, if not himself.' Jon Caramanica of observed 'a boatload of identifying details' in Musgraves' lyrics and called it an 'acidic and beautiful' album that is indebted 'at least a little bit to Ms.