A few miles outside of Golden, Texas, in the piney-oak country of Wood County, there is — or was — a roadside sign that reads “Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere.” Kacey Musgraves grew up in that town. She’s been carrying that sign with her through several albums and more than a decade of touring, and on her latest record she stopped running from it and named the whole thing for it. On Saturday, October 10, she brings the Middle of Nowhere Tour to American Airlines Center in Dallas — the first of two consecutive nights at the arena, with the second running Sunday, October 11. Both shows begin at 7:30 PM.
Middle of Nowhere — Musgraves’ sixth studio album [UNVERIFIED: one source in the gather counted this as her seventh; discrepancy flagged for editorial], released May 1, 2026 on Lost Highway Records — is her most Texas-sounding record since Same Trailer, Different Park announced her to the country at the 2013 CMAs, where she won New Artist of the Year. The production team of Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk return from Golden Hour, but the palette has shifted. This one has pedal steel and Texas dancehall in its bones, alongside Norteño and Zydeco threads that reflect the actual cultural geography of the state rather than any Nashville postcard of it. Musgraves has described the record as made during “the longest single period of my life” — solitude distilled into thirteen tracks, geographically and emotionally specific in a way her recent work has not always been.
The collaborators she drew into that solitude are worth the billing: Willie Nelson appears on “Uncertain, Texas.” Miranda Lambert joins on “Horses and Divorces” — reviewers have noted the reunion carries weight given the distance that had grown between the two. Billy Strings guests on “Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy.” Gregory Alan Isakov brings his wide-open-sky melancholy to “Coyote.” The result is the kind of album that explains why Lost Highway — the Nashville imprint that carried independent-minded country and Americana through the late ’90s and 2000s before going dormant — would choose Musgraves as the first artist of its relaunched operation. Some labels have an aesthetic. Lost Highway always did.
The lead single, “Dry Spell,” had its video co-directed by Musgraves and Hannah Lux Davis. Highway Queens called it “her funniest and frankest song ever.” That’s a fair read. But the record it opens is a deeper proposition than the single suggests, and a two-night arena run in her home state is going to carry something more than a standard tour date.
Supporting across the Texas dates is William Beckmann, the Texas singer-songwriter whose steadily built catalog rewards an early arrival.
The show is all ages. American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave, Dallas, TX 75219. Tickets available through Ticketmaster.