Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #3 - "Slow Burn," Kacey Musgraves

I've commented on this phenomenon elsewhere, but every now and then, you hear a song for the first time and it just takes your breath away.  The chills run up your spine, and you just want to keep listening to the song over and over.  And when it's the first song on an album, sometimes it takes a while just to get to the second song.



"Slow Burn" is such a song.  When I heard it for the first time, I thought that Kacey Musgraves had captured the Holy Grail, creating a song that was not really country, not really pop, but transcended every category one could conceivably assign to it and reach a level that this artist - great as she has been over the course of three albums - had yet to achieve.

She will be around for a generation.  Let's just hope there is a music industry waiting for her when we emerge on the other side.

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #3 - "Slow Burn," Kacey Musgraves.