Kacey Comes Home To Lost Highway
• Kacey Musgraves has signed — again — to Lost Highway Records. The 8x Grammy® Award-winning singer/songwriter was the final artist signed to Lost Highway in 2011 before the label was absorbed by Mercury Nashville in 2012 while she was working on her debut studio album, Same Trailer, Different Park.
Musgraves now becomes the first artist re-signed by Lost Highway, which relaunched several weeks ago under the leadership of Robert Knotts and Jake Gear.
John Janick, Chairman & CEO, Interscope Capitol and IGA, said, “Kacey exemplifies the kind of culture-shifting, left-of-center artists that Lost Highway has always been known for. Given the close relationship she’s had with both Lost Highway and Interscope, it seemed only natural for her to be the first artist signed in this new chapter.”
“Lost Highway was always a musical stable for artists who might be considered outliers or outlaws; those who live on the fringe,” said Musgraves. “In 2011, when other record labels questioned my songwriting and my more traditional Country sound, Lost Highway believed in me, signing me to my first label deal and helped me take my music around the world. That journey has now come full circle in such a special way with John Janick and Interscope, and I’m deeply honored to be able to once again call Lost Highway my musical home.”
Luke Lewis, who founded Lost Highway in 2000 and signed Musgraves in 2011, said, “For 20 years, my job was to run Mercury and MCA labels, which were primarily mainstream Country endeavors. The last 10 years of my time there were passionately dedicated to starting and leading Lost Highway, which was the most rewarding time of my entire career. The label went on to cultivate some of the greatest singer/songwriters I have had the honor to work with, and I am extremely proud to have helped them further their amazing musical journeys. I am beyond grateful that this very special label is now in the hands of John Janick, Robert Knotts, Jake Gear and the Interscope team, and I am certain Lost Highway will have an incredible second inning.”
Musgraves marked this momentous new beginning by releasing her interpretation of the song for which the label is named — the Leon Payne-penned “Lost Highway,” which Hank Williams covered in 1949. Stream “Lost Highway” HERE.
