The Lone-Star Laments of Kacey Musgraves

Everyone knows there’s something kind of funny about country music. The genre’s cultural identity is linked to a stylized and unapologetically old-fashioned vision of America, which can seem rather hokey. In 1975, the legendary country singer and songwriter David Allan Coe released his version of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” a sardonic tribute to the genre that he loved.