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dollypartonvibes · 5 months

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Dolly Parton at her home, circa 1977.

#dolly parton #vintage #country music #photography #horses #portraits #black and white #1970s #ranch #tennessee #musician #country #pop icon #western

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tllgrrl · 1 year

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Why’n’t y’all tell me about this site?

Pinning this here for now because how am I even finding out about this?

#black opry #country music is black music is country

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sbrown82 · 1 month

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Linda Martell - "Color Him Father" (1970)

**Beyoncé's latest album 'Cowboy Carter' spotlights Linda Martell, a pioneer and trailblazer who paved the way for Black country music artists, as she was the first commercially successful Black female artist in the genre.

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carlosgabrx · 1 month

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"COWBOY CARTER" (2024)

Beyoncé, Blair Caldwell & Frederik Heyman

#beyoncé #beyonce #video #photography #art #country #album #music #black #country music #cowboy carter #renaissance #act ii #act i #act iii #blair caldwell #frederik heyman

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mrsoulstice · 1 month

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#tanner adell #country music #black woman #black country music #cowboy carter #buckle bunny

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blackgirlsreverything · 10 months

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#tracy chapman #natural hair #locs #black women #fast car #country music

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alwaysbewoke · 15 days

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Imagine how many people JUST LIKE HER are in ICU, TRAUMA, BIRTH AND DELIVERY, NICU, STEP-DOWN UNITS, PYSCH WARDS, ELDERLY CARE, OBGYN, CARDIOLOGY, POST OP CARE, etc…

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heartshapelocket · 21 days

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Black women in country 🎀

Reyna Roberts, Brittney Spencer, Tanner Adell and Teria Kennedy pictured at Country Music Television Awards

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bogunicorn · 8 months

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Like, it's fine to relate songs you like to fiction you like. That's good and fun! Hozier's music is often political commentary, but it's also about love and emotion and has inspirations in other genres of music and fiction (esp Unreal Unearth, which is explicitly based on Dante's Inferno).

The trouble comes not with linking, you know, a love song to your favorite blorbo, it's when you reduce Hozier the person into a magical sad fairy man stereotype Too Good for This World in a way that both reduces the influence of black music and artists on his work AND fetishizes Irishness as a whole as if Ireland is a fantasy kingdom of the past and not a real place populated by real people.

#hozier #if you're an american with irish or otherwise celtic ancestry (like i am)#it's understandable to feel the ache of disconnection and the urge to romanticize the place our ancestors came from #but the way to express that is to educate yourself about your family's history and the modern countries #not turn them into a fantasyland in your mind and dehumanize current citizens of those places #hozier's music is magical the same way any good art is magical #not because he's an otherworldly fairy man separate from modern politics or his varied (and often black) artistic influences #bog post

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tani-b-art · 1 month

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“This ain’t a Country album. This is a “Beyoncé” album.”

I understand why she said this! Because the way it seems she created a completely new genre with ‘Cowboy Carter’! The Country is there (and all the elements) and there’s some Blues, Folk, Soul, Zydeco, Bluegrass, a lil Rock, Gospel and Opera and then some (all genres with Black (Black) American origins). Almost like she opened a new sonic portal while helping to reclaim the genre made by Black Americans.

First off — the album cover art. She pays homage to a long-standing Black American Southern tradition of Houston rodeo and rodeo queens. Carrying our country’s flag…the imagery is signifying to her being a Black American woman. Who she is.

The album cover alone set the tone for what she presented with act ii. [and the photographer is Blair Caldwell, a fellow Black Texan, who has such an eye for capturing beauty. all his photographs are visually pleasing].

[Even the promo - the track list design is a nod & historical reference to Black American culture via The Chitlin Circuit promotional posters. I love it. Made my little graphic art heart smile. The nostalgia of it.]

From the opening track title and lyrics and later on within other songs, she wove her ancestral claiming to America with so much pride. Pride for our country and our flag that we absolutely should have.

Then to have Ms. Linda Martell, the trailblazing Black pioneer & legend in the genre who broke many barriers, be a part of this album was so reverent. (Especially her spoken word throughout that spoke to the way that she and Beyoncé have had to navigate this music industry. When their presence wasn’t well-received, in the very genre we created, they set out to move in a “non-traditional” way). They themselves are the embodiment of unconventional. Ms. Martell rightfully receiving her flowers at the golden age of 82 is harmonious!

Every part of act ii has made people research and discover. The same way act i did. Gotta love a good educational experience through music. (btw—the mention of Zydeco had me hyped).

Having Rhiannon Giddens on instrumentation (along with other background Black musicians and I’m sure Black vocalists) and sharing this musical journey with Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Willie Jones and Shaboozey — other young Black women and Black men in the genre…all of this Black fellowship made me so happy.

Just sooo much honoring throughout it all. Lots of love poured into it.

Everything is resonate. Connecting. With purpose.

Her voice, her musicality, the note choices, the lyrics, the song titles and the spelling of them, the arrangements.

It’s fun and beautiful.

It sounds amazing.

A beautiful tribute to her roots.

Bravo Beyoncé!

#Beyoncé #Cowboy Carter #Linda Martell #Tanner Adell #Brittney Spencer #Tiera Kennedy #Reyna Roberts #Willie Jones #Shaboozey #Blair Caldwell #Black music #Black culture #Black American culture #Black American music #country music #go stream Cowboy Carter #go buy Cowboy Carter #and go stream and buy all the artists she featured

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sanyu-thewitch05 · 1 year

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We got the Velma disaster on HBO Max when we could’ve gotten a show about the Hex Girls.

This a crime.

#scooby doo #hbo velma #hex girls #we could’ve gotten witches traveling the country and playing music in their tours #we could’ve gotten magical shenanigans #we could’ve gotten coven girl power and friendship #we could’ve had literal black girl magic with the hex girls #velma dinkley #and of course the Scooby Doo gang could’ve made a couple of appearances #velma #hex girls dusk #hex girls luna #hex girls thorn #mindy kaling

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kamaljohnsonnetwork · 2 months

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They Gonna Play Bruh Music Before They Play Beyoncé Music SMH | The G.A.B. (Meme Time)

Full Show On The YouTube (Kamal Johnson Network). Link Below

YT Link

https://youtu.be/QjARQ3ip29Q?si=XmS12APlGBJpN4NS via YouTube

Podcast Links

iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/338-the-gab-101916901/episode/so-yall-gate-keeping-what-black-152613632/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PJNtLx4YDIUw0AlypxLIV?si=ee843012c01c48cd

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-g-a-b/id1547660066?i=1000646123092

Podpage: https://www.podpage.com/the-gab/

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