Kacey Musgraves

The brothers and their parents were taken into federal custody earlier this year during a required immigration check-in. The story caught the ear of a country music icon.

Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. "I found a lot of clarity there," she says.

Kacey Musgraves Wild Card interview explores identity, personal growth, and life lessons.

From the beginning of her career, Grammy-winning musician Kacey Musgraves has been doing what feels authentic to herself. She sings about familiar country themes like falling in love and heartbreak. But she also sings about smoking pot and queer relationships. Musgraves talks to Rachel about not being defined by anyone but herself, becoming more open-minded and living with the ghost of her grandma. To listen sponsor-free, access bonus episodes and support the show, sign up for Wild Card+ at plus.npr.org/wildcard

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Kacey Musgraves about her new album, "Deeper Well."

"We're all taught that the success of a relationship has to somehow correlate with the length of it ... I just don't think that that's fully accurate." The singer-songwriter's new album is out today.

How do you follow up the domestic bliss of Golden Hour when real life doesn't go according to the narrative? Musgraves offers an answer in the form of "star-crossed," the title track of her new album.

The country star released a remix of the Golden Hour track to celebrate Earth Day and raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.

The country star thought it "would be a fun way to bring my old Christmas album back in the form of those old Christmas specials that we love."

Of all the natural majesties present in this blue rock of ours, none can quite compare to this visual of Kacey Musgraves as a centaur.