Deeper Well

For the past decade, Kacey Musgraves has been country music’s most daring traditionalist — a small-town realist who’s also a campy country-disco queen and a folkie who once wrote a song about smoking weed with John Prine. Her last LP, the 2021 post-divorce record Star-Crossed, was another reminder that her artistic comfort zone is pretty much wherever she lands on any given moment. On the heels of her biggest hit yet, last year’s Zach Bryan duet “I Remember Everything,” there were several semi-predictable steps…