JOINS SELECT RANK OF FEMALE ARTISTS TO
WIN ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD IN CMA’S HISTORY
Kacey Musgraves took home the award for Album of the Year during Wednesday night’s CMA Awards in honor of her #1 album Golden Hour, becoming the first female to win the category in 4 years and only the sixth female to do so in the show’s 52-year history. Presenter Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild dedicated the win to “all the little girls writing songs out there,” and Kacey, accepting the award in custom Versace, revealed Golden Hour was “inspired by this beautiful universe, all of you, and, most of all, love.”
Golden Hour was released earlier this year to critical acclaim across all genres, hailed as of the best albums of 2018 by outlets from NPR, TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Varietyand Entertainment Weekly to Consequence of Sound, Complex, Paste, Stereogum, and BuzzFeed. USA Today asserted “‘Golden Hour’ may be 2018’s best album yet,” Noisey declared, “it’s clear that the Texan is still the most talented songwriter in mainstream pop-country,” and Vanity Fair proclaimed “Musgraves is a country star through and through.” Fitting of Kacey’s Album of the Year win, HuffPost pronounced Golden Hour “the work of a self-assured artist breaking the mold instead of the younger version telling us that one day she would.”
Following her tours earlier this year with Little Big Town and Harry Styles, Kacey has recently completed the European leg of her headlining Oh, What A World: Tour, including a night at London’s famed Wembley Arena. Kacey will go on to perform at Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 in Johannesburg, South Africa this December before kicking off her North American tour dates in 2019. The North American leg will start January 9th, with stops in major cities across the U.S. and Canada, including Toronto, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Nashville. For full list of dates and tickets, visithttp://www.kaceymusgraves.com.
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