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Kacey Musgraves recalled a “catastrophic bike wreck” shortly before kicking off her headlining world tour earlier this year.
The Grammy-winning artist started her “Deeper Well World Tour” in Dublin, Ireland, with a run of shows in the U.K. and Europe before returning to the U.S. for tour dates spanning through the end of the year. Musgraves said in an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday night (September 9) that she wants to have an Eat, Pray, Love-inspired adventure before she began her tour. She’d never traveled to another country alone, and selected the Aran Islands as the destination for her “romantic adventure.” Musgraves told host Seth Meyers that rather than relying on vehicles for transportation, people on the island use bikes. Within 15 minutes of renting her bike, “I eat complete sh*t.”
“I have this catastrophic bike wreck. My knee is totally messed up. I’m stupid. It was me. It was my fault. There was no one to blame but me,” Musgraves said, explaining that she was attempting to multitask and film a video while riding her bike. Meyers played that video for Late Night viewers. “Embarrassingly enough, there is proof of my stupidity.
“And if you listen really closely in the video, you hear me — it’s silent for a second, and you hear me go, ‘ugh.’ And I was thinking, ‘oh, what a great moment. I’ll have a meet cute.’ There will be this Irishman. He’ll come over and help me and he’ll be like, ‘let’s get a Guinness,’ or something,” Musgraves continued. “No, it was an American dude. And he was like, ‘you OK?’ And he goes, you can hear him in the background, he goes, ‘nothing like a fall to make you feel alive, right?’”
Musgraves recently kicked off her U.S. “Deeper Well World Tour” stops in support of her fifth full-length studio album. The shows end with back-to-back nights in Nashville, Tennessee, weeks after the 58th CMA Awards. Musgraves is nominated in the Female Vocalist of the Year category, and Deeper Well is up for Album of the Year. She also received a nod in the Musical Event of the Year category for “I Remember Everything,” her Grammy-winning duet with Zach Bryan.
“Country music is like my home,” Musgraves said of her nominations. “That’s where my heart is, and of course, I get to explore all kinds of other styles, but coming back to country always feels like home to me, so I’m excited.”
The CMA Awards will take place at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, November 20. It will air live at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on ABC, and will be available the following day on Hulu. See the full list of nominees here.
“I’ve been working so hard on the production, and I have an amazing crew that has brought this whole thing together,” Musgraves told Meyers of her “Deeper Well” show, which will bring her back to Bridgestone Arena on December 6 and 7. “It is so stunning. I have to say, it’s this cool mix of, like, sci-fi and nature. It’s earthy, but it’s really a spectacle and I’m really proud of it. But, you know, at the end of the day, it’s me and it’s my songs, and it feels like an intimate show in this arena, and it’s really cool.”