Kacey Musgraves has announced her seventh album, ‘Middle of Nowhere’, due May 1 via Lost Highway. Leading the record is “Dry Spell,” a new single accompanied by a cheeky music video co-directed by Musgraves and Hannah Lux Davis. The clip follows Musgraves through a grocery store, daydreaming about one of the employees. It is exactly as fun as it sounds.
The album finds Musgraves processing a long stretch of creative solitude, writing across time spent in Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico. “For the first time, it actually felt incredible being alone and existing in a space not defined by anyone else,” she said. That openness to liminal space, geographical and emotional, shapes the entire record. The result sounds like an artist fully at ease with uncertainty.
The guest list is formidable. Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov all appear on ‘Middle of Nowhere’, each lending their voice to a project that already feels like one of the more anticipated country-adjacent releases of 2026. Musgraves has always known how to build a room, and this one has serious company.
The announcement follows Musgraves taking home Best Country Song at last year’s Grammy Awards for “The Architect,” bringing her career total to eight wins. She praised 2026 Album of the Year winner Bad Bunny last month after his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance. ‘Middle of Nowhere’ arrives May 1.
‘Middle of Nowhere’ Tracklist:
1 Middle of Nowhere
2 Dry Spell
3 Back on the Wagon
4 I Believe in Ghosts
5 Abilene
6 Coyote (ft. Gregory Alan Isakov)
7 Loneliest Girl
8 Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy (ft. Billy Strings)
9 Horses and Divorces (ft. Miranda Lambert)
10 Uncertain, Texas (ft. Willie Nelson)
11 Rhinestoned
12 Mexico Honey
13 Hell on Me