Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	88/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
American Songwriter
Robert Christgau	A–
Nash Country Weekly	A
Entertainment Weekly	A–
Paste	8.3/10
Rolling Stone
The Salt Lake Tribune	B+
Taste of Country
USA Today

Same Trailer Different Park is the major label debut album by American country music artist Kacey Musgraves, released on March 19, 2013, through Mercury Nashville. Musgraves co-wrote all twelve tracks and co-produced the album with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

Same Trailer Different Park draws on styles such as rockabilly, blues rock, country folk, and catchy country pop. Its songs are performed midtempo, and written from a Middle-American perspective, featuring stories of challenges and setbacks faced by men and women who struggle with their surroundings. "Follow Your Arrow" examines the small-minded perspective of small-town life. On "Merry Go 'Round", Musgraves sings over a shuffle beat and banjo about emotional, material, and addictive liabilities that prevent people from escaping restrictive lifestyles. Jonathan Bernstein of American Songwriter wrote that Musgraves' characters are "well-wishers and help-seekers, deadbeats trying to be better and do-gooders that are falling behind", and that she focuses on "small, pivotal moments, when they come to terms with their own faults and dreams, when they’re on the verge of a breakthrough or a meltdown."

Same Trailer Different Park debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. It also entered at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart. The week after winning two awards and performing at the 2014 Grammy Awards, sales for the album in the United States increased 146%. The week of February 6, 2014, the album returned to No. 1 on the U.S. Top Country Albums Chart and saw sales increase a further 177%. As of July 2015 the album has sold 519,000 copies in the US.

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