A Spree of Country Music Divorce Albums

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Kacey Musgraves have reacted to breakups — and found freedom — in song. Guest: Marissa R. Moss.

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0:00.0	One to the New York Times block as you are paintings ruled the world of music, news, and criticism
0:20.0	on your host John Caramanica. Does it feel just to me like everybody in Nashville in the last
0:34.8	10 years gotten married and then divorced? Maybe got married so that they can get divorced,
0:39.6	got married so they can get divorced so they can record an album that feels like a divorce album
0:45.1	even then to go on and do press and say it's really a divorce album, even though Loki is a divorce
0:51.0	album. Anyway, it started to feel like that. It's been on my mind recently. It came front and center
0:56.9	a few weeks ago. I guess a couple months ago, there was a Kelsey Ballerini EP off cycle called
1:02.6	Rolling Up the Welcome Matt, which is about the dissolution of her marriage, which I do think
1:06.8	to be fair Kelsey's been pretty straightforward about and a reminder me of some other records that
1:10.4	have come out recently. There's a Carly Pierce record, 29, Casey Musgraves album and some older
1:16.0	stuff. And I thought let's talk a little bit about the long tradition of country music divorce albums
1:22.7	focused on these most recent ones, but also a little bit bigger picture. If we're talking country
1:27.8	music, we're talking with Marissa Moss. Hey Marissa. Marissa, as you know, it's been on podcast
1:33.8	before is the author of the book. It came out last year. Her country, how the women of country
1:38.5	music became a success. They were never supposed to be before we get into the Kelsey record.
1:43.9	Let's talk a little bit about in the context of the work that you are doing for your book.
1:48.7	The relationship between female country performers and songwriters and marriage and divorce as
1:55.6	subject matter to what degree did that come up in your interviews and talking to female
2:02.1	performers about what they were or were not encouraged to write about or felt comfortable writing
2:07.0	about to what degree was that coming up before the Carly record because I know you were working
2:11.1	on this book for a while to what degree was that kind of stuff coming up in your conversations
2:15.2	with women in Nashville. Things were having me on by the way. Of course.
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