Same Trailer Different Park

Same Trailer Different Park
Studio album by Kacey Musgraves
Released March 19, 2013
Genre Country[1]
Length 40:13
Label Mercury Nashville
Producer Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves chronology

Kacey Musgraves
(2007)		 Same Trailer Different Park
(2013)		 Pageant Material
(2015)
Singles from Same Trailer Different Park
  1. "Merry Go 'Round"
    Released: September 10, 2012
  2. "Blowin' Smoke"
    Released: April 1, 2013
  3. "Follow Your Arrow"
    Released: October 21, 2013
  4. "Keep It to Yourself"
    Released: March 10, 2014[2]

Same Trailer Different Park is the fourth studio album and major label debut by American country music artist Kacey Musgraves.[3] It was released on March 19, 2013, through Mercury Nashville.[4] Musgraves co-wrote all twelve tracks and co-produced the album with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally.[3] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Grammy Awards.

Music and lyrics

Same Trailer Different Park draws on styles such as rockabilly, blues rock, country folk,[5] and catchy country pop.[6] Its songs are performed midtempo,[7] and written from a Middle-American perspective, featuring stories of challenges and setbacks faced by men and women who struggle with their surroundings.[6] "Follow Your Arrow" examines the small-minded perspective of small-town life. On "Merry Go 'Round", Musgraves sings over a shuffle beat and banjo about emotional, material, and addictive liabilities that prevent people from escaping restrictive lifestyles.[8] Jonathan Bernstein of American Songwriter 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."[6]

Commercial performance

Same Trailer Different Park debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. It also entered at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.[9] The week after winning two awards and performing at the 2014 Grammy Awards, sales for the album in the United States increased 146%.[10] 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%.[11] As of November 2014 the album had sold 475,900 copies in the US.[12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (88/100)[13]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [14]
American Songwriter [6]
Robert Christgau A–[15]
Country Weekly A[16]
Entertainment Weekly A–[1]
Paste 8.3/10[17]
Rolling Stone [7]
The Salt Lake Tribune B+[18]
Taste of Country [19]
USA Today [20]

Same Trailer Different Park received universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 11 reviews.[13] Tammy Ragusa of Country Weekly called it "distinctive in both its arrangements and lyrics."[16] AllMusic'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."[14] MSN Music's Robert Christgau called her "the finest lyricist to rise up out of conscious country since Miranda Lambert, if not Bobby Pinson himself."[15] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times 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. Lambert's durable template."[5] Will Hermes, writing for NPR, said that her "wordplay feels effortless and conversational", and found Musgraves' "spirits of carpe diem and dysfunctional romance" to be "squarely" in the tradition of country music.[21]

Grady Smith of Entertainment Weekly said that the album "continually showcases ... her writing prowess" because "Musgraves has a way of injecting humor into even her most melancholic musings."[1] At Paste, Holly Gleason noted Musgraves "sings unvarnished truths" while maintaining "the sunniness that is the right of the young" that is done "With a voice that’s pretty, but brazen, Musgraves has no problem slinging attitude, crying bullshit or coyly advocating same-sex amour/dope-smoking while skewering hypocrisy."[17] In addition, Gleason saw this album as "a manifesto that'll never come true," which she asked the question "is dignity enough to get by on?", and her response was that by a "thin margin, but one Musgraves walks straight into the sunset."[17] Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone felt that, although Musgraves lacks a powerful singing voice, the album "showcases a songwriting voice you won't hear anywhere else in pop: young, female, downwardly mobile, fiercely witty."[7] David Burger of The Salt Lake Tribune vowed that the album "is not only intriguing vocally but engaging lyrically".[18] Taste of Country's Billy Dukes commented that the album "is well-written, edgy (yet familiar) and coated in 'cool.'"[19] Jerry Shriver of USA Today said the songs are "honest with themselves and don't wallow in self-pity", and that Musgraves' singing is "pretty and clear but usually unsentimental."[20] In December, Rolling Stone ranked Same Trailer Different Park number 28 on its list of the 50 best albums of 2013.[22] It won the Best Country Album award at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in January 2014. On April 6, 2014, Same Trailer Different Park won Album of the Year at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

Accolades

Publication Rank List
AllMusic 12 AllMusic Best of 2013[23]
Amazon 10 Best Albums of 2013[24]
American Songwriter 7 Top 50 Albums Of 2013[25]
Billboard 10 15 Best Albums of 2013: Critics' Picks[26]
Billboard 13 20 Best Albums of 2010s (So Far)[27]
Dagsavisen 23 Best Albums of 2013[28]
Entertainment Weekly 5 10 Best Country Albums of 2013[1]
Evening Standard 9 The 10 Best Albums of 2013[29]
Guardian 16 Best Albums of 2013[30]
Idolator 8 2013′s Best Albums[31]
NPR 15 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013[32]
Paste 20 The 50 Best Albums of 2013[17]
Pazz & Jop 10 Pazz & Jop 2013 Best Albums[33]
Pop Matters 13 The 75 Best Albums of 2013[34]
Rolling Stone 28 50 Best Albums of 2013[35]
Spin 17 Spin's 50 Best Albums of 2013[36]
The Washington Post 1 Top Ten Albums of 2013[37]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Silver Lining"  Kacey Musgraves, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne 3:50
2. "My House"  Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne 2:42
3. "Merry Go 'Round"  Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne 3:28
4. "Dandelion"  Musgraves, McAnally, Brandy Clark 3:04
5. "Blowin' Smoke"  Musgraves, McAnally, Luke Laird 3:08
6. "I Miss You"  Musgraves, Laird, Osborne 3:50
7. "Step Off"  Musgraves, McAnally, Laird 3:03
8. "Back on the Map"  Musgraves, Laird 4:06
9. "Keep It to Yourself"  Musgraves, McAnally, Laird 3:17
10. "Stupid"  Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne 2:38
11. "Follow Your Arrow"  Musgraves, McAnally, Clark 3:21
12. "It Is What It Is"  Musgraves, Clark, Laird 3:46
Total length:
 40:13

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[38]

Musicians

Waffle House background noise on "Blowin' Smoke" recorded by Luke Laird.

Technical

Charts

Chart (2013)[9] Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[39] 77
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[40] 13
UK Albums (Official Charts Company) 39
US Billboard 200[41] 2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[42] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2013) Position
US Billboard 200[43] 114
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 26
Chart (2014) Position
US Billboard 200[45] 85
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[46] 14
Preceded by
Spring Break…Here to Party by Luke Bryan
That Girl by Jennifer Nettles		 Top Country Albums number-one album
April 6, 2013
February 15, 2014 		Succeeded by
Based on a True Story… by Blake Shelton
Here's to the Good Times by Florida Georgia Line

Certifications

Region Certification
United States (RIAA)[47] Gold

References

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  2. ↑ "R&R :: Going For Adds :: Country". Radio & Records. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gallucci, Michael (January 30, 2013). "Kacey Musgraves’ Debut Album Coming in March". Taste of Country. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ Betts, Stephen L. (January 22, 2013). "Kacey Musgraves' 'Same Trailer Different Park' Release Date Revealed". The Boot. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Caramanica, Jon (March 21, 2013). "Country’s Straight-Talk Feminists". The New York Times. p. C1. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Bernstein, Jonathan (March 18, 2013). "Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer, Different Park". American Songwriter. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Rosen, Jody (March 19, 2013). "Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury Nashville)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
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