Our writer sure wouldn’t want to be KaceyMusgraves' ex-husband in the ACLFest crowd.
First, a brief apology to Rounder Records recording artist, onetime Americana Awards nominee, and generally well-respected singer-songwriter dude Ruston Kelly.
Anyway, so there I was – me, Ruston Kelly – at the Honda stage. After somehow getting lost and foolhardily wandering straight to the center-front of my erstwhile soulmate’s Sunday night ACL set, I was trapped by flanks of her most committed fans, soon to be yelling along to lyrics about our misbegotten civil union. And there she was, Kacey, my much more famous ex.
“Oh, that’s right,” I remembered. People basically agree that this new album is a tiny bit mid… y’know, relative to the catalog.
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