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Beyonce just dropped the most exciting country album of the year. What a pity Nashville didn’t want it
9 months, 1 week ago

Beyonce just dropped the most exciting country album of the year. What a pity Nashville didn’t want it

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But just 10 days before Cowboy Carter’s release, Beyoncé …

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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reinforces her dedication to Black reclamation — and country music
9 months, 1 week ago

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reinforces her dedication to Black reclamation — and country music

Firstpost  

If there is a lightning rod country music moment in Beyoncé’s career to date, it’s her performance of “Daddy Lessons” at the 2016 Country Music Awards with The Chicks, six days before Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a statement without saying a word. Beyoncé …

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‘Cowboy Carter’: Country crossover artists laud second act of Beyoncé’s album trilogy
9 months, 1 week ago

‘Cowboy Carter’: Country crossover artists laud second act of Beyoncé’s album trilogy

LA Times  

Beyoncé has been crowned rodeo queen. Beyoncé also featured several Black country artists on her emotional cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Brittney Spencer, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy were among them. You are country.” Although Beyoncé’s list of collaborators on “Cowboy Carter” is long, former country turned pop superstar Taylor Swift is not on it. Beyoncé’s father Matthew Knowles, who …

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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reinforces her dedication to Black reclamation — and country music
9 months, 1 week ago

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reinforces her dedication to Black reclamation — and country music

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a statement without saying a word. BEYONCÉ, TEXAS AND ‘DADDY LESSONS’ Beyoncé hails from Houston, a city with a rich musical interplay of “blues and country and hip-hop,” says Francesca T. Royster, a DePaul University professor and author of “Black Country Music: Listening …

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Review: How Black country music became undeniable
2 years, 3 months ago

Review: How Black country music became undeniable

LA Times  

The Country Music Assn. In the introduction to her new book, “Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions,” Francesca Royster recalls a country music festival she attended in her hometown of Chicago in July 2014. Royster’s book, however, isn’t so much a history of the African American experience in country music — editor Diane Pecknold’s 2013 anthology, “Hidden in the Mix,” …

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Beyoncé's "Daddy Issues" and the powerful history of black country mothers
5 years, 8 months ago

Beyoncé's "Daddy Issues" and the powerful history of black country mothers

Salon  

Texas.” As horns lead into the opening lines of “Daddy Lessons,” grainy shots of Beyoncé’s native Houston intermingle with images of New Orleans: children walking together, young women laughing on a corner, a black man riding a horse down a city street with his daughter on the saddle in front of him. Beyoncé is on horseback when she first sings …

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