Country music star Kacey Musgraves' new album is influenced by her experiences growing up in Texas. So it's no surprise she wanted the songs to sound like the Lone Star State.
She recruited one Texas music legend, Willie Nelson, to join her on the song "Uncertain, TX." - named after a real town close to Musgraves' childhood home. She hoped another icon, San Antonio conjunto great Flaco Jimenez, would join them, but that wasn't to be.
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"I was dying to have Flaco Jimenez, the great accordion player, on (‘Uncertain, TX')," she told BBC DJ Zane Lowe on his Apple Music show. "We were conversing with his son and working on getting Flaco on the track when he passed away last summer.
"Willie and Flaco together would have been just this Tex-Mex dream … I was so crushed whenever it couldn't happen, but I tried to infuse his spirit in my own way on there."
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Jimenez died July 31, 2025, at age 86. He had been too sick to perform for months.
"Uncertain, TX," is Musgraves' third collaboration with Nelson, whom she called "everyone's favorite gangster great-grandpa."
Jimenez and Nelson were friends who had played on the same stage before and appeared on the same song at least once, on "They All Went to Mexico," on the Santana album "Havana Moon."
"The Middle of Nowhere" is out on Friday.
Musgraves told Texas Monthly that she wanted to "make a record that would fit in at a traditional Texas dance hall." And that's exactly where she'll be debuting it with a run of three shows starting Sunday night at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels.
The shows were announced earlier this week and sold out in less than hour on Tuesday morning.
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