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With the sun perched high over the Indio sky on Saturday, Coachella’s mid-afternoon energy was also plenty warm thanks to the magnetically poetic country of Kacey Musgraves which drew an overflowing crowd to the Mojave tent at 3 p.m.
Though she’s a shoo-in favorite for country crowds at Stagecoach, Musgraves, who made her Coachella debuit in 2019, was ready to welcome all comers with her mix of sleek Y2k-era pop, roots music and many shades of sound in between.
Her cool and confident cowgirl aura that pairs well with a stroll through the wide open polo field, whether on foot or on a horse.
Musgraves opted for the latter as she entered her set on horseback wearing a white tank top, blue jeans and a cream-colored Stetson hat.
Backed by a full band and a custom horse trailer on stage, she strummed the chords of aptly-chosen set opener “Middle of Nowhere,” which bled into another new track, “Back on the Wagon” touting a message of standing-by-your-man, followed by “Justified.”