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Kacey Musgraves envisioned her Grammy-nominated 'Golden Hour' as a 'beautiful hiding place'

Kacey Musgraves' face had "Seriously?" written all over it.

Asked to explain why she'd been nervous to take part in this month's Global Citizen Festival - a Johannesburg fundraising event at which the country singer performed alongside Beyonce, Femi Kuti and Coldplay's Chris Martin - Musgraves laughed and said, "Well, playing an acoustic country-music set in a stadium in Africa is not something I do every day.

"But then I guess I'm getting used to new experiences."

Indeed, Musgraves' knockout of a third studio album, "Golden Hour," is all about novel adventures: Inspired by

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