Who releases the single "Space Cowboy" in 2018?

Kacey Musgraves released the single “Space Cowboy” in 2018. The country song was issued on February 23, 2018, as one of the first singles from her acclaimed fourth studio album, Golden Hour.

Musgraves co-wrote the song with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. Its lyrics use the language of the American West to describe letting a relationship end, including the memorable idea that a departing “cowboy” should have room to leave. The song’s restrained, atmospheric production helped define the softer, genre-blending sound of Golden Hour.

“Space Cowboy” was not a song by the older funk and R&B performer Steve Miller, whose similarly titled “The Joker” lyric helped make the phrase familiar. Musgraves’s track earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, while Golden Hour later won Album of the Year.