Kacey Musgraves has spent her career honing her own kind of tongue-in-cheek country music, deploying self-consciously old-fashioned references and sounds with a winsome wink. “Middle of Nowhere,” her seventh studio album, “is full of songs about Musgraves’s state of birth, which is Texas, and her state of mind, which seems to be lonely,” Kelefa Sanneh writes. Read more about the album and Musgraves’s career: www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-music/the-lo...