Kacey Musgraves stopped by The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night time to carry out “Arm’s Size,” a track that appeared on Deeper Properly: Deeper Into the Properly, the expanded version of her acclaimed 2024 album Deeper Properly.
Bathed in reverb and backed by her denim-donned five-piece band, Musgraves offers a stunning rendition of “Arm’s Size.” Regardless of such a heat association, Musgraves sings of a relationship rendered chilly and distant: “I gave you water/ However I couldn’t make you drink/ Keepin’ me simply inside attain/ All the time holding me at arms size,” she sings because the band behind her swells. Watch her efficiency of “Arm’s Size” beneath.
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Previous to performing, Musgraves additionally sat for an interview with Colbert on Monday night time to debate Deeper Properly, her lengthy highway to stardom, and her reference to the late songwriter John Prine. When requested by Colbert in regards to the track “Cardinal” — the opening observe on Deeper Properly — Musgraves claims the track was written about Prine, whom she thought of to be a mentor.
“We did have a particular connection, and he was an expensive pal. And I don’t know, after he handed there have been some fascinating little issues that may begin occurring, and one in every of them was a cardinal that may come go to nearly on daily basis… it will stare at me by this window, and it struck me as a track concept,” she mentioned.
When requested about her friendship with Prine, Musgraves expressed an excessive amount of reverence. “His entire household was tremendous welcoming… he was precisely such as you’d assume he could be, tremendous humorous, all the time telling tales,” she mentioned. “Once we acquired to jot down, we really didn’t actually get into ending a track as a result of I used to be simply listening to all of his tales. He was a songwriter’s songwriter, such a storyteller, a magician with phrases, positively gone too quickly… however he’s woven into the material of American music.”
She additionally tells the story of making an attempt to smoke weed with Prine in Nashville — after writing the track “Burn One with John Prine,” getting excessive with the people icon was an merchandise on Musgraves’ bucket checklist. When she snuck backstage to fulfill him in Nashville one night time, she lastly acquired the possibility to ask him. “I used to be like, ‘Hey, this may be a bizarre query, however do you wish to go burn one out within the parking zone?’ And he was like, ‘I’ve had throat most cancers. No.’” Ultimately, the track made its method to Prine, who put two and two collectively and finally befriended Musgraves. Watch her full look on Colbert beneath.
Kacey Musgraves has a handful of tour dates left on her “Deeper Properly Tour” nonetheless to return within the South. Get tickets right here. In the meantime, revisit our assessment of Deeper Properly, which we named as among the best albums of 2024 to date.