Pushkin.

Alice Randall is a country music songwriter, a New York Times best-selling author, and a newly

minted memoirist. She calls her new book, My Black Country, a love letter to Black Country music.

In addition to her memoir, Alice has also released the album My Black Country, the songs of Alice

Randall that includes a rendition of the song The Ballad of Sally Ann performed by Riann and

Giddens.

The song which confronts the harsh realities of lynching in the American South was nominated

for a Grammy last year in the Best American Roots performance category.

On today's episode, Bruce Hedlam talks to Alice Randall about her lifelong love of country music and how growing up in Detroit during the height of Motown influenced her musical sensibilities.

She also traces the countless contributions African Americans have made to country

music and why she believes that history has been ignored.

This is Broken Record. Real musicians, real conversations.

Here's Bruce Headlum's conversation with Alice Randall.

So you have your book, My Black Country.

We should mention it's far from your first book.

You're also a novelist.

You've done many other things.

You had the tribute album, My Black Country, which is the songs of Alice Randall, and

beautifully designed in that classical Nashville way. Now, and you talk about all of this as

your project. Are there other elements to this project? Is there more coming?

Yes, there actually is more coming. There is the My Black Country documentary that Reggie will be directing that will let us

take a deeper dive into some of this material and a visual dive into it. And I'm actually just begun work on the My Black Country Country Cookbook,

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