Lil Nas X made his hip-hop debut in 2021 with a nod to Black country musicians. He earned several Grammy nominations for his album, “Montero,” and made a huge splash with the Billy-Ray-Cyrus ...
and Country Music Studies program. The latter led her to join Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell on 2019's Smithsonian Folkways "Songs of Our Native Daughters" project, where the ...
Like The Chicks, Maren Morris redefined the role of female country musicians in the genre’s politics by rebuking the deep-rooted republicanism of country music and the transphobic and racist rhetoric ...