{"id":145209,"date":"2024-10-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=145209"},"modified":"2024-10-04T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:09:24","slug":"play-kacey-musgraves-dreamy-ballad-too-good-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/play-kacey-musgraves-dreamy-ballad-too-good-to-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Kacey Musgraves\u2019 Dreamy Ballad \u201cToo Good to Be True\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the standout tracks on Kacey Musgraves\u2019 Deeper Well<\/a>,<\/em> the latest release by the seven-time Grammy winner, is \u201cToo Good to Be True,\u201d an intimate ballad about opening up to a new relationship. Like most of the album, this song is built on layers of acoustic guitar, with fingerstyle parts that are so closely entwined it\u2019s often hard to pick out the individual instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musgraves wrote \u201cToo Good to Be True\u201d with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, her primary songwriting and producing team on the whole Deeper Well<\/em> album as well as previously on star-crossed<\/a><\/em> (2021) and Golden Hour<\/a><\/em> (2018). In addition, \u201cToo Good to Be True\u201d credits Anna Nalick as a writer, for interpolations from her great song \u201cBreathe (2 AM).\u201d The connection between the two songs lies in the melody and chord progression of the verse, but it\u2019s more a similarity than an exact quote. \u201cToo Good to Be True\u201d is in a different meter (4\/4 versus 6\/8 for \u201cBreathe\u201d) and makes a few chord substitutions, such as Bm7 for D in the verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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