Kacey Musgraves Signs To Newly Relaunched Lost Highway Records
The country superstar was the final artist signed to the Nashville-based record label in 2011.
Kacey Musgraves is returning to the first label that signed her, the newly relaunched Lost Highway Records.
The eight-time Grammy winner was the final artist signed to the Nashville-based record label in 2011. The following year, Lost Highway was absorbed by Mercury Nashville while Musgraves was working on her debut studio album Same Trailer, Different Park.
“Lost Highway was always a musical stable for artists who might be considered outliers or outlaws; those who live on the fringe,” the country superstar said of the news. “In 2011, when other record labels questioned my songwriting and my more traditional country sound, Lost Highway believed in me, signing me to my first label deal and helped me take my music around the world. That journey has now come full circle in such a special way with John Janick and Interscope, and I’m deeply honored to be able to once again call Lost Highway my musical home.”
In celebration of the signing, Musgraves shared a cover of Hank Williams’ 1949 “Lost Highway” classic, which gave the imprint its name. The cover may suggest the singer is returning to her country roots, but she insists that’s not the case.
“While some might think of it as a ‘return,’ I want to make it super clear that I never left,” she shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s always been a home base, and it’s truly where I’m sonically the most happy. But since the beginning, I’ve always had an exploratory foot out the door a little bit, allowing myself to infuse all these other genres that speak to me.”
In 2024, Musgraves released her fifth studio album, Deeper Well, via Interscope Records/MCA Nashville. The album hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and her single “The Architect” won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song. Musgraves also toured the album with sold-out shows worldwide. That same year, the singer’s cover of “Three Little Birds” was featured on the Bob Marley: One Love (Music Inspired by the Film) EP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
