Just over a decade ago, Kacey Musgraves emerged as a fresh new voice in country music — a mid-tempo storyteller with an incredible acuity both in her lyrics and in her instrumentation, knowing just when to pick up the harmonica, whistle a tune or break out the vocoder.

In the years and award-winning albums since, she’s proven herself to be malleable: weaving disco-pop into her narratives where fitting (most memorably on “High Horse” from 2018’s “Golden Hour,” the love-forward release that earned her album of the year at the 2019 Grammys), recording in Spanish (“Gracias a la Vida” from 2021’s divorce record, “star-crossed”), and most recently, recording a feature with Zach Bryan, which has become her first No. 1 hit (the sentimental “I Remember Everything,” one of AP’s picks for best of 2023.) In 2024, it has led to “Deeper Well,” a muted folk record with a warm kind of profundity.

For fans following Musgraves’ career since the very beginning, “Deeper Well” is a noted evolution from “Follow Your Arrow,” the celebratory country-as-heck LGBT+ anthem from her 2013 debut album “Same Trailer Different Park.” But the spirit is the same: Musgraves has long pushed the boundaries of her formative genre — whether it’s touring with Willie Nelson and Katy Perry — or when she made sure her co-writers, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, took the stage when she won the Country Music Awards Song of the Year Award in 2014 for her first hit.