Same Trailer Different Park
Same Trailer Different Park is the debut studio album by American country music artist Kacey Musgraves,[3] released on March 19, 2013, through Mercury Nashville.[4] Musgraves co-wrote all 12 tracks and co-produced the album with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally.[3] Met with widespread critical acclaim, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
Same Trailer Different Park
March 19, 2013
2012–2013
Ben's Studio, The Racket, Sound Emporium and Maverick Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
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- Luke Laird
- Shane McAnally
- Kacey Musgraves
Conception[edit]
Same Trailer Different Park draws on styles such as rockabilly, blues rock, country folk,[5] and catchy country pop.[6] Its songs are performed midtempo,[7] and written from a Middle-American perspective, featuring stories of challenges and setbacks faced by men and women who struggle with their surroundings.[6] "Follow Your Arrow" examines the small-minded perspective of small-town life. On "Merry Go 'Round", Musgraves sings over a shuffle beat and banjo about emotional, material, and addictive liabilities that prevent people from escaping restrictive lifestyles.[8] Jonathan Bernstein of American Songwriter wrote that Musgraves's characters are "well-wishers and help-seekers, deadbeats trying to be better and do-gooders that are falling behind", and that she focuses on "small, pivotal moments, when they come to terms with their own faults and dreams, when they’re on the verge of a breakthrough or a meltdown."[6]
Commercial performance[edit]
Same Trailer Different Park debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on the Top Country Albums chart.[38] The week after the album won two awards and was performed at the 2014 Grammy Awards, sales in the United States increased 146 percent.[39] The week of February 6, 2014, the album returned to number one on the US Top Country Albums chart and saw sales increase a further 177 percent.[40] As of July 2015 the album has sold 519,000 copies in the US.[41] On April 4, 2018, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over a million units in the United States.[42]