Photo by Kelly Christine Sutton

Kacey Musgraves has a certain way with words when she wants to be a, uh, certain kind of way, and at her most country, she’s at her best dishing out these wordsmith gifts in innuendo. “Dry Spell” is a return to form in that regard in attempting to bring home the bacon to chow down on alongside those “Biscuits” last baked up during her Pageant Material days. The listen — which hears the Texan star reunited with early material co-pens in Ian Fitchuk and Luke Laird alongside Daniel Tashian — feels more at home than her pivots toward star-crossed attempts of divorce pop spectacle and falling down the well of therapy culture folk-pop over her last two efforts. Its mid-tempo, late-night cowgirl colloquialisms of weathering the drought of an empty bedroom don’t need much beyond an echo of twang with a steady pedal steel hand and a few barnyard double entendres to get what she means here — especially if you’re not getting any either.

Directed by: Hannah Lux Davis & Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere will be released May 1st on Lost Highway Records.