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Black Performers In Country, Bluegrass, & Folk Music

Books:

Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music by Diane Pecknold {2013}

Country Soul: Making Music And Making Race In The American South by Charles L. Hughes {2015}

The Banjo: America’s African Instrument by Laurent Dubois {2016} x

Pride: The Charley Pride Story by Charley Pride &‎ Jim Henderson {1994}

Deford Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music by David C. Morton & Charles K. Wolfe {1991}

My Country: The African Diaspora’s Country Music Heritage by Pamela E. Foster {1998}

My Country, Too: The Other Black Music by Pamela E. Foster {2000}

Say It One More Time For The Brokenhearted by Barney Hoskyns {1987}

African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway {1995}

Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music by Clinton Walker {2015}

Hoedowns, Reels, And Frolics: Roots And Branches Of Southern Appalachian Dance - Phil Jamison {2015}

Black Country Music: Listening For Revolutions by Francesca T. Royster {2022}

Well Of Souls: Uncovering The Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy {2022}

Documentary:

Rhythm, Country & Blues {1994}

Waiting In The Wings: African Americans In Country Music 1, 2, 3 {2004}

The Banjo Project {2011}

Les Blank: Always For Pleasure

American Epic {2017}

Charley Pride: I’m Just Me {2019}

CDs:

American Epic: The Collection {5 CD box set - 2017}

From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music {3 CD box - 1998 / 4 CD Box - 2024}

Articles:

Linda Martell {March 1970 / Ebony} Ruby Falls Nisha Jackson {June 14, 1987 / Chicago Tribune} Color Them Country: The Black Women Of Country Music {2019} Rufus “Tee Tot” Payne - x Lesley Riddle {2017} Henry Glover - 1, 2, 3, 4 Sun, Sea and Stetsons: Why St. Lucia loves country and western music {2014} Country Music Is Hugely Popular In Africa. But It’s Nearly All Imported {2017} That Ain't My Song On The Jukebox {1997} Black Hillbilly {2015} Rural Black String Band Music {1980} McDonald Craig {1982} African Bluegrass

Youtube

Shemekia Copeland - Drivin’ Out Of Nashville {2015} Shirley Caesar - No Charge {1983} McDonald Craig - Pistol Packing Papa / Saddie Brown {2010} Donna Summer & Eddie Rabbitt - Medley {1983} Minnie Riperton - It’s So Nice (To See Old Friends) {1974} Nisha Jackson - Alive And Well {1987} A Taste Of Honey - Leavin’ Tomorrow {1982} Miko Marks & The Resurrectors - Whiskey River {2021} The Pointer Sisters - Fairytale / Live Your Life Before You Die {1974 / 1975} Chapel Hart - Country Paradise {2020} Margie Joseph - Touch Your Woman {1975} Rufus & Chaka Khan - I Finally Found You {1973} Patti LaBelle - Country Christmas {1990} Etta Baker & Cora Phillips - Jaybird March {2005} Beyoncé & Dixie Chicks - Daddy Lessons {2016} Sunny Daye - I’m Already There / Sin Wagon {2007 / 2011} Cynthia Mae Talley - Change Of Heart {2010} Frankie Staton - Rhinestone Cowgirl {1999} Toshi Reagon - Mountain Top {2002} Linda Martell - Bad Case Of The Blues {1970} Nell Carter - So Long Dude {1972} Smokey Robinson & Dolly Parton - I Know You By Heart {1987} B. B. King - Alexis’ Boogie {1971} Uncle John Scruggs - Little Log Cabin In The Lane {1928} Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby) - I Still Love You {1993} George W. Johnson - The Laughing Song {1897} Johnnie Taylor - Party Life {1970} Sir Mix-A-Lot - Square Dance Rap / Buttermilk Biscuits {1985 / 1988} Parliament - Little Ole Country Boy {1970} Commodores - Sail On {1979} Michael Jackson - For The Good Times {1984} Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) {2007} Joe Tex - Grandma Mary {1969} Richie Havens - The Key {2008} Seckond Chaynce - Write This Down {2017} Bad Bascomb - Black Grass {1972} O. B. McClinton - albums / Talk To My Children’s Mama {1977} Big Al Downing - I Ain’t No Fool / Beer Drinkin’ People {1979} Otis Williams And The Midnight Cowboys - Mule Skinner Blues {1971} Whistler’s Jug Band - Foldin’ Bed {1930} Virginia Kirby - Faded Rose {1977} The Nairobi Wranglers - The Legend Of The Black Cowboy & His Music {1980}

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Marissa R. Moss at Rolling Stone:

In 2016, at what became an ill-fated celebration to hopefully usher in the first female president, there was not one country music performer at the Democratic National Convention. There were pop stars like Demi Lovato, Lenny Kravitz, and Lady Gaga, but there wasn’t a single performance that drew from the country or Americana worlds. This was a mistake, clearly: The attitude was that country music and Southern/rural stuff was for Trumpers, and to be avoided at all costs, and that doesn’t end well when you’re trying to win an election, or understand the American public at large on a level deeper than “red state bad.” There are blue voters in those red states, if you get them to the polls, but you have to speak — or sing — their language to get them there.  

The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, wherein we’ll once again make a go for a female president, looked and sounded a whole lot different from eight years ago. There weren’t big pop-star performances (though surely they are coming), but there was country: a country artist, Mickey Guyton, and a country person, Jason Isbell, singing “Something More than Free” with his unmistakable Alabama drawl in front of an image of a barn with an American flag on it. These signifiers have been generally reserved for Trump rallies when it comes to the Venn diagram of music and recent politics, with country music’s conservative core latching on to the jingoist beat in earnest since 9/11, though the alliance between the two dates back far longer. 

By opening their convention with Isbell and Guyton, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz seem to want to change that, with the cherry on top appearing in the form of a Harris/Walz camouflage baseball hat released a few weeks ago — it sold out instantly. But it’s country artists like Jason Aldean, who appeared at the Republican National Convention and engages in the workingman’s sport of country club golf with former president Trump, who like to own this sort of symbolism. His 2019 album, 9, even contained a song called “Camouflage Hat.” That’s the genius work of this one small bit of Harris/Walz merch. The hat reclaims the rural and Southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored, all in with the power of one nifty little cap. Ella Emhoff proudly wore hers last night, while Walz displayed his own — also camouflage — Jason Isbell hat backstage. 

Meanwhile, it’s the Trump supporters who are the ones getting country music wrong, soundtracking their TikTok videos in support of the ex-president with none other than The Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which was written after their expulsion from Nashville in the wake of anti-Iraq War comments and their refusal to apologize. This baffling phenomenon by the right seems to come from either an inability to Google, or an assumption that everything country music must be conservative, and it’s hard to decide which is worse. 

Between Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and The Chicks, the DNC was eager to embrace country music. That is a good thing, as Republicans don’t have a monopoly on the genre. #DNC2024 #2024DNC

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nationalparkfoundation: Each year, The National Christmas Tree Lighting occurs in a national park, @presidents_park_nps! We asked this year’s performers (along with Santa and Mrs. Claus) about their favorite park memories and stories!

The 101st National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, hosted by @ mickeyguyton, features performances from @therealdionnew, ledisi, @ darrencriss, and more. Watch the show on Friday, December 15, at 8 PM EST/PST on CBS!

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Mickey Guyton in Retrofête at the 2024 CMT Music Awards

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Norah Jones, Hurray for the Riff Raff to Kick off Back Half of “ACL” 50

Norah Jones and Hurray for the Riff Raff will split the first hour of the second half of “Austin City Limits’” 50th season.

America’s longest-running music program returns to PBS stations Jan. 11, 2025, with highlights from Jones and HFRR’s 2024 appearances. Jones’ “Running,” an unremarkable pop song from Visions, previews the broadcast.

The season’s back half runs through Feb. 15, culminating with Willie Nelson, “ACL”’s first performer, making his 18th appearance.

In between, the Avett Brothers (Jan. 18); Mickey Guyton and Carín León (Jan. 25); Chris Stapleton (Feb. 1); and Sturgill Simpson (Feb. 8) will appear.

A 50th-anniversary program is slated for April 4.

Check local listings.

12/20/24

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Not to oversell it, but this performance changed my life

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country girls i like

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The gang flies the Floaty Coaster to Sunny Gulch to give rides, but Pete and Horace have different feelings about roller coasters

Mickey Guyton reprises her role as Wanda Warbler

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Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 31st Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California - March 12, 2023

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Renée Rapp, Darren Criss and Mickey Guyton and More to Perform at National Christmas Tree Lighting

‘Tis the season for some holiday cheer in the nation’s capital!

Country star Mickey Guyton will take the reins as host of the National Christmas Tree Lighting, an hour-long CBS special that will feature star-studded performances in Washington, D.C.

She’ll be joined by Renée Rapp, Darren Criss, Dionne Warwick, Joe Walsh, Samara Joy, Ledisi and St. Vincent, who, in addition to Guyton herself, will hit the stage to perform holiday classics.

The official lighting of the tree on the Ellipse at The White House and President’s Park will take place on Nov. 30, and the special will air Dec. 15 on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT, as well as on Paramount+.

Guyton is well-equipped for the night’s festivities, as she and Michael Bolton recently teamed up on the new track “Christmas Isn’t Christmas.” Criss, meanwhile, released a holiday album in 2021, while Warwick did the same in 2019.

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Riley and Lucas Nothing Compares To You

Here is my new video of Riley and Lucas. I like go think that eventually when Riley and Lucas were old enough that Lucas would ended up asking Riley to Marry him. There would be a chance maybe Riley and Lucas ended up breaking up with each other for several months or a couple years but they ended up founding their way back together. They would ended up getting married together and they would ended up having children. One of their kids may ended up would ended up loving horses and they would try to get Riley and Lucas to get him or her one. I could see Riley and Lucas letting their kids to be who their children are meant to be. I think that one of their kids also may ended up being bullied just Riley but Riley and Lucas will ended up teaching all of their children to stand up for themselves when they are come face to face with a bully.

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#CountryMusic

CMT 12-16-23 (Hot 20 Signature 2023)

So today CMT will be giving a playlist of Artist's signature hits for the end of 2023. So let's begin right now.

Luke Bryan - Play it again. Sam Hunt - Body like a back road. Wynonna - No one else on Earth. Little Big Town - Boondocks. Ricky Skaggs - Country boy. Reba McEntire - Fancy. Reba McEntire - The night the lights went out in Georgia. Chapel Hart - The night the lights went out in Georgia. Josh Turner - Long black train. Kane Brown - Heaven. Trace Adkins - Every light in the house. Brooks & Dunn - Neon moon. Hank Williams Jr. - A Country boy can survive. Tim McGraw - Live like you were dying. Lee Greenwood - God bless the USA. Mickey Guyton - Black like me. Thomas Rhett - Marry me. Dustin Lynch - Small town boy. Kelsea Ballerini - Peter Pan. Avery Anna - Peter Pan. Ronnie Milsap - Smokey Mountain Rain. Blake Shelton - Ol' red. Gary Allan - Watching airplanes. Luke Combs - Beautiful crazy. Jason Aldean - My kinda party. Deanna Carter - Strawberry wine. Vince Gill - Go rest high on that mountain. Keith Urban - You'll think of me. Darryl Worley - Have you forgotten? Randy Travis - Forever and ever, amen. Shania Twain - You're still the one. Carrie Underwood - Jesus, take the wheel.

And that's a wrap for the Signature hits from CMT (Country Music Television). Thanks as always go to CMT for doing their weekly Country Music Video Countdowns. And thanks as well goes out to you for taking the time to read this weekly list. See ya all next time.