With its witty accounts of small-town life, Musgraves’s 2013 debut, Same Trailer Different Park, cast the young Texan as the antidote to the beer-toting, pickup driving cliches of “bro-country” that dominate Nashville’s output. This follow-up, while more polished, maintains her appeal on songs that hark back to forerunners such as Bobbie Gentry and Dolly Parton. Like them, her vocals are sweet rather than strident, while her tunefulness comes spiked with wry homilies; “Pissin’ in my yard ain’t gonna make yours greener,” she offers on Biscuits, while Good Ol’Boys Club is a snipe at country establishment. One ol’ boy is included, though, Willie Nelson, who guests on the swooning, pedal-steel drenched Are You Sure. A charmer.
