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The One Thing Kacey Musgraves’s and Beyoncé’s New Albums Have in Common


Meet producer Ian Fitchuk, music’s go-to pop-country translator.

Comb through the credits of the spring ’s biggest pop-country albums — Kacey Musgraves’s Deeper Well, Maggie Rogers’s Don’t Forget Me, even Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter — and one name keeps popping up: Ian Fitchuk. At the same time, Fitchuk has racked up credits with Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert, and Brothers Osborne — plus Harry Styles and Reneé Rapp. It sounds like that process must’ve felt similar to working on Don’t Forget Me with Maggie Rogers, with a lot of those songs being first takes and coming together very spur-of-the-moment.

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