“The idea of what country music is has been carefully constructed to seem like it was always white,” she says. I ask her why people don’t know the history of country music. This is not her first rodeo: She’s got this answer down to a science. “White supremacy,” she tells me...
Lainey Wilson's Entertainer of the Year win at the 2023 CMA Awards was as unexpected as any in country music history. That's not to say she isn't deserving — if fact, we laid outa pretty good casewhy she is. The attention was on Morgan Wallen, with most people wondering if he'd ...
Willie Nelsonhas had plenty of ups, downs and wild experiences over the course of his storied career, but the best-known of his public scandals might just be the time he was at the center ofone of the most high-profile tax cases in music history. After the IRS decided that tax shelters...
When the Dixie Chicks spoke out against the Iraq War in the early 2000s, their popularity in country music circles never fully recovered.. When current superstar Morgan Wallen was caught saying racist slurs, his supporters kept his album "Dangerous: The Double ...
The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s“Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and its past and present racial tensions.
The album was five years in the making, a direct result of what Beyoncé has called “an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” most likely a reference toa 2016 CMAs per...
CMA Jokes: Is Brad Paisley, and Country Music, Racist?In their seventh run hosting the Country Music AssociationAwards, Carrie Underwood and Brad...Steele, Anne
Beyoncé later called Swift back onstage to finish her speech, but the moment has been named as one of the most shocking in recent music history. Bonus Fact: Brooks & Dunn also announced they were breaking up. ~ Billy Dukes 2010: CMT hosts its first CMT Artists of the Year event ...
Particularly, it is stated “country music should have a strong storyline” (History of Country Music). There are several notable examples of this sort of musical storytelling; one of which is “Cocaine Blues” by Johnny Cash. He recounts the saga of a man on the run from the police ...
Southlake was the subject of a six-part MSNBC podcast, detailing its racist history and current battles over critical race theory in schools. The city has been thrust into the spotlight multiple times in recent years when videos surfaced of high school students chanting the n-word. ...