‘Catch of the Day’ – Kacey Musgraves – “Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas” [AUDIO]

With the Christmas season quickly approaching, each and every Friday we will be bringing you a new slice of holiday magic, something we hope will be part of your seasonal playlist, not only this year, but for years to come. We started the week by bringing you an artist who fist came to our attention on season 1 of the contest program Nashville Star, and we finish the week with an artist who appeared on the show's fifth season.

Born and raised in Golden, TX, Kacey Musgraves began her musical journey when she was just 8-years old. She learned to play the mandolin and began writing, penning a song for her elementary school graduation. By age 12 she was taking guitar lessons, and before long she was playing local music festivals. By age 18, she was recording song demos for writers, and by the time she appeared on Nashville Star at age 19 in 2007, she had self-released three albums. She finished seventh on the program, with Angela Hacker being named the season winner, and her brother Zac finishing second.

Musgraves moved to Austin, TX in 2008, began writing music for her own benefit, but also songs that other artists would record. She signed with Mercury Records Nashville in 2012, releasing her major label debut album Same Trailer, Different Park later that year. The album featured three singles. including "Follow Your Arrow", which while not a commercial success, was named #38 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Country Songs of All-Ttime.

In 2013 Musgraves would be nominated for four ACM awards (including Female Vocalist of the Year) and four Grammy awards (including two nominations for Song of the Year for the Miranda Lambert single "Mama's Broken Heart" and her own single "Merry Go Round"), tying Taylor Swift for the most by a female artist that year.

In June of 2015, Musgraves released her follow-up album Pageant Material, and to support the release, Musgraves uncharacteristically made the rounds of tv programs, including The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The album would feature two singles, with the lead

single "Biscuits" becoming her third top-30 hit. In 2016, she would appear as one of the 30 CMA awarded artist on the single "Forever Country" credited as the Stard of Then, Now and Forever; the single would become only the second song in Country Music history to debut at #1.

October 28th of this year saw the release of Musgraves' first holiday album, A Very Kacey Christmas. We have the lead single from the album in our spotlight today. Kasey Musgraves and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" is today's Catch of the HoliDays, new holiday music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.