Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert have resolved a well-documented years-long feud by releasing a joint single, Horses and Divorces, on Friday, 1 May 2026, as part of Musgraves’ new album Middle of Nowhere.
The track, available on Spotify and Apple Music, arrives as a striking act of public reconciliation between two of country music’s most prominent artists, who have not been publicly friendly for the better part of a decade.
How the feud started
The tension between Musgraves and Lambert traces back to 2011, when Musgraves co-wrote Mama’s Broken Heart with Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark and reportedly planned to record the song herself.
When she allowed Lambert to take the track, it became one of the biggest hits of Lambert’s career.
The result reportedly created lasting ill-feeling between the two artists, with neither publicly addressing the specifics of the falling-out for years.
What they said about burying the hatchet
Musgraves was candid in describing how the collaboration came together.
“It’s not coming from some contrived place in a writing room,” she said.
“We’ve come together after years of really, honestly, not being friends.”
She told Yahoo Entertainment that the resolution of the feud was “a plot twist that even I did not see coming.”
The song itself finds common ground in what Musgraves described as shared experience: horses, divorces, Texas, alcohol and a mutual love for Willie Nelson.
Both artists are Texas-connected, both have navigated high-profile personal lives in public, and both have built careers as women who write on their own terms within a genre that has not always made space for that.
Middle of Nowhere, the 13-track album on which Horses and Divorces appears, also features collaborations with Gregory Alan Isakov, Billy Strings and Willie Nelson.
It is Musgraves’ most collaborative release to date, and marks a broadening of her sound away from the country-pop framework of her earlier records.
The track’s release caps a long wait for listeners who had followed the Musgraves-Lambert narrative for years.
Both artists have indicated warmth towards each other in the wake of the release, though no joint tour or live performance has been confirmed at the time of publishing.
