Kacey Musgraves has signed to Nashville-based Misplaced Freeway Data. The 8x GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter is the primary artist signed by the relaunched label – and she or he was the ultimate artist signed to Misplaced Freeway in 2011. In 2012, Misplaced Freeway was absorbed by Mercury Nashville whereas she was engaged on her debut studio album, Similar Trailer, Completely different Park.
“Misplaced Freeway was at all times a musical secure for artists who could be thought-about outliers or outlaws; those that stay on the perimeter,” remembers Kacey Musgraves. “In 2011, when different document labels questioned my songwriting and my extra conventional nation sound, Misplaced Freeway believed in me, signing me to my first label deal and helped me take my music all over the world. That journey has now come full circle in such a particular method with John Janick and Interscope and I’m deeply honored to have the ability to as soon as once more name Misplaced Freeway my musical dwelling.”
John Janick, Chairman & CEO, Interscope Capitol and IGA, stated, “Kacey exemplifies the form of culture- shifting, left-of-center artists that Misplaced Freeway has at all times been identified for. Given the shut relationship she’s had with each Misplaced Freeway and Interscope, it appeared solely pure for her to be the primary artist signed on this new chapter.”
Luke Lewis, who based Misplaced Freeway in 2000 and signed Musgraves in 2011, stated, “For 20 years, my job was to run Mercury and MCA labels, which had been primarily mainstream nation endeavors. The final 10 years of my time there have been passionately devoted to beginning and main Misplaced Freeway, which was essentially the most rewarding time of my whole profession. The label went on to domesticate among the best singer/songwriters I’ve had the distinction to work with, and I’m extraordinarily proud to have helped them additional their wonderful musical journeys. I’m past grateful that this very particular label is now within the palms of John Janick, Robert Knotts, Jake Gear and the Interscope workforce, and I’m sure Misplaced Freeway may have an unbelievable second inning.”
At the moment, Musgraves marked this new starting by releasing her interpretation of the tune for which the label is called – the Leon Payne-penned “Misplaced Freeway,” which Hank Williams coated in 1949. Hearken to the tune, which was produced by: Kacey Musgraves, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk above.
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