Kacey Musgraves' 'Pageant Material' Turns 10

Kacey Musgraves' 'Pageant Material' Turns 10

Golden, Texas is kind of a misnomer. Eighty minutes outside of Dallas, its claim to fame is an entire festival dedicated to tubers, with parades and music and something called mutton bustin’. But the small town is known for neither the gilded flesh of its yukons nor its butterballs; instead, its pride and joy is the humble, orange-gutted Ipomoea batatas — the sweet potato.

‘Pageant Material’: How Country Queen Kacey Musgraves Took The Crown

Audiences were ready to greet Kacey Musgraves like a homecoming queen by 2015. The genre-bending country trendsetter had made a remarkable breakthrough with Same Trailer Different Park two years earlier. It won both Grammy and ACM Awards and marked out Musgraves as a fearless and adventurous voice. Pageant Material, released on June 23, 2015, was the album that confirmed she was in that role to stay. Fans and media united in their admiration of …