Kacey Musgraves Wins Grammy Award For Best Country Song With “The Architect”

An early and very deserving winner.

The Grammy Awards are taking place tonight in Los Angeles, though the Recording Academy has already announced some early winners, most of which won’t make it to air on TV, and that includes the award for Best Country Song.

It went to the very talented Kacey Musgraves for her song “The Architect,” which was included on her 2024 Deeper Well album. It was an immediate standout that Kacey wrote alongside Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, who are her co-writers on her hit single and all-around incredible song, “Merry Go ‘Round.”

Like the line in the song, it’s simple and somehow complex at the same time, as she grapples with some pretty big and impossible ideas, like the meaning of life and how and why we’re all here. It’s Kacey at her finest in terms of songwriting and her powerfully pure vocals, and I am so happy to see it getting the attention it deserves. It was probably my favorite single released last year.

Kacey actually did send it to country radio too, but as many of us know, that’s where some of the best country music goes to die, if it ever even gets that far to begin with… so for it to win the Grammy for Best Country song is very well-deserved, and way more exciting than have a hit at radio, in my very humble opinion.

She beat out Beyoncé with “Texas Hold ’Em,” Jelly Roll with “I Am Not Okay,” Post Malone and Morgan with “I Had Some Help” and Shaboozey with “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” to win, and I don’t think there’s any argument it was easily the best song on that list.

According to NBC, Kacey called it an “honor” to win another Grammy during her acceptance speech, which is her eighth in total:

“There’s so much darkness in this world right now and it just feels so good to be able to fight some of that darkness through song. It’s such an honor. Thank you.”

I love when truly great songs win these kinds of awards, and Kacey outdid herself with this one:

Congrats Best Country Song winner – “The Architect” @kaceymusgraves. #GRAMMYs

WATCH NOW ⤵️ https://t.co/OuKk34kvdu

— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 2, 2025

Shoutout to the Grammy’s for getting this one extremely right…

“The Architect”

Sierra Ferrell is also already cleaning up as an early winner, taking home the awards for Best Americana album for Trail Of Flowers, Best American roots song for “American Dreaming,” as well as Best Americana performance, also for “American Dreaming.”

The 67th GRAMMY Awards will air live on CBS and Paramount+ this Sunday, February 2nd at 8PM EST at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

You can view all of the country nominees below.

COUNTRY

Best Country Solo Performance:

Beyoncé – 16 Carriages
Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance:

Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted
Brothers Osborne – Break Mine
Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses
Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help

Best Country Song:

Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best Country Album:

Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Chris Stapleton – Higher
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind
Post Malone – F-1 Trillion

AMERICANA/ROOTS

Featuring nominations for Sierra Ferrell, Beyoncé, Charley Crockett and more.

Best American Roots Performance:

The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood – Nothing in Rambling
Rhiannon Giddens – The Ballad of Sally Anne
Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve
Sierra Ferrell – Lighthouse

Best Americana Performance:

Beyoncé – Ya Ya
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky
Madi Diaz & Kacey Musgraves – Don’t Do Me Good
Madison Cunningham – Subtitles
Sarah Jarosz – Runaway Train
Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming

Best American Roots Song:

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends
Iron & Wine & Fiona Apple – All in Good Time
Mark Knopfler – Ahead of the Game
Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve
Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming

Best Americana Album:

Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
Maggie Rose – No One Gets Out Alive
Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers
Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers
T Bone Burnett – The Other Side
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood

Best Bluegrass Album:

Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes – I Built a World
Dan Tyminski – Dan Tyminski: Live From the Ryman
The Del McCoury Band – Songs of Love and Life
Sister Sadie – No Fear
Tony Trischka – Earl Jam

ALL-GENRE

Record of the Year:

The Beatles – Now and Then
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX – 360
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Album of the Year:

André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Song of the Year:

Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile
Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Best New Artist:

Benson Boone
Doechii
Chappell Roan
Khruangbin
Raye
Sabrina Carpenter
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims

Additionally, country songwriters Jessi Alexander and Jessie Jo Dillon are both nominated in the Songwriter of the Year category, which is worth noting.

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical:

Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessi Alexander
Jessie Jo Dillon
Raye