Kacey Musgraves redirected her focus to her small-town Texas roots on this year's excellent Middle Of Nowhere . One dimension of that exercise was an embrace of Tex-Mex sounds, including a dip into the regional Mexican subgenre Norteño on the Willie Nelson duet "Uncertain, TX" and performing shows with teenage mariachi musicians . Now she's diving all the way into that sound on a Middle Of Nowhere companion album.

Out in January, Middle Of Nowhere Vol. 2: Tex Mex Tapes features 16 new tracks exploring the connection between Texas and Mexico. Musgraves sings four of those songs in Spanish, including a new version of "Uncertain, TX" with regional Mexican band Intocable subbing in for Nelson.…