Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is a landmark provocation that dares the country music establishment to look itself in the eye. Nashville has spent decades marginalizing Black women like Linda Martell and Rhiannon Giddens, and outright ignoring the likes of Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, and Reyna Roberts. Beyoncé, inspired at least partially by the ugly fallout from her appearance alongside the Chicks at the CMAs in 2016, is now playing a game of chicken with Music Row. Are they really going to ignore one of the most prominent Black artists of the last 20 years when she comes to the gates of their white picket fences? And, if so, how are they going to reconcile that with their insistence that of course we aren’t racist with the fact that Beyoncé has proven that she knows exactly what she’s doing and why.
Every choice Beyoncé has made on Cowboy Carter betrays a...
Every choice Beyoncé has made on Cowboy Carter betrays a...
- 4/2/2024
- by Jonathan Keefe
- Slant Magazine
Born and raised in Kentucky as the daughter of coal miner Ted Webb, Loretta Lynn taught herself how to play guitar as a teenager. She knew enough to begin carving out her identity as a singer, later giving way to the establishment of a powerful legacy. But taking a look at Loretta’s sprawling family tree, it seems as though her musical calling was inevitable — and it has spanned generations since.
Loretta was the second oldest of eight children. While neither of their parents pursued musicianship as careers, the Webb...
Loretta was the second oldest of eight children. While neither of their parents pursued musicianship as careers, the Webb...
- 2/27/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
The Country Music Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for 2023, with two of the genre’s most successful artists, Tanya Tucker and Patty Loveless, marking the first time since 2011 that two solo women have been inducted in one year. Songwriter Bob McDill rounds out this year’s inductees.
Tanya Tucker, who joins as the Veteran Era inductee, had already scored her first major hits when she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone at age 15. Her long-awaited inclusion as a Hall of Fame member finds her basking in the...
Tanya Tucker, who joins as the Veteran Era inductee, had already scored her first major hits when she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone at age 15. Her long-awaited inclusion as a Hall of Fame member finds her basking in the...
- 4/3/2023
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
The final season of FX’s The Americans is here… and we’re already worried about who’ll be left standing when the series ends.
When Wednesday’s Season 6 premiere opens — with a killer montage set to the Crowded House classic “Don’t Dream It’s Over” — we’ve jumped forward three years to the fall of 1987, and Philip and Elizabeth are now living separate lives. While he’s Wolf of Wall Street-ing it up at the travel agency full-time with a new yuppie haircut and a car phone (!), Elizabeth is stuck doing all the spy work, rapidly switching out wigs and running herself ragged.
When Wednesday’s Season 6 premiere opens — with a killer montage set to the Crowded House classic “Don’t Dream It’s Over” — we’ve jumped forward three years to the fall of 1987, and Philip and Elizabeth are now living separate lives. While he’s Wolf of Wall Street-ing it up at the travel agency full-time with a new yuppie haircut and a car phone (!), Elizabeth is stuck doing all the spy work, rapidly switching out wigs and running herself ragged.
- 3/29/2018
- TVLine.com
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