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Playing your music on TV ostensibly has a commercial purpose, so the standard move is to wow the audience with the catchiest, most upbeat song you’ve got. Kacey Musgraves’ stunning new LP Deeper Well is about slowing yourself down to listen to the still, small voices inside and learning to trust their guidance. When she played SNL a couple weeks before the record came out in March, she picked “Deeper Well” and “Too Good to Be True,” two of the album’s quieter songs, performed with an enormous band whose members all played very gently. The quality of the songs and the subtlety and richness of the music left an impact that’ll be remembered for a long time to come.

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