Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis the 14th. And come to our live show in L.A. on September 30th,

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I'll be on stage with Molly Mary O'Brien, Molly Lambert, Michael Wood,

and Jay Lonnie, Turner Williams to talk all things, 143, Gaga's new New Era and Follyadda, and so much more. I'm so excited for this. Get your tickets at potpantheonpod.com, or you can click the link in the show notes of this episode. As always, please don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-A-E-X-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch at Poppantheonpod.com and, of course, our Patreon channel where we do weekly bonus episodes of the show is available at patreon.com slash Poppantheon, or you can subscribe to the audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app. Finally, gorgeous, gorgeous is happening in New York on September 13th and in LA on September 27th. Tickets for both of those are in the show notes of this

episode. So I am still on vacation this week and we will be back next week with full new episodes

of the show. But while we were off this week, we wanted to publish a show from our Patreon channel.

This was an episode about Beyonce's Cowboy Carter that we recorded with Danielle Amir Jackson

back when it came out this past March.

I thought it would be a really fun episode to revisit because this album now, which is a very

dense and multifaceted listen, has had some time to sit with everybody.

It was fun for me to go back and listen to it and hear what our initial reactions were to it

all the way back then. And I thought it would be a good episode to revisit for those who have already heard it and also to introduce some of you who aren't Pop Pantheon All Access subscribers to hear some of the stuff we're doing over there. I'm so proud of the content we produce over there. I really feel like it's become an essential part of the show. We talk about so much new music all the time. Every new album that comes out. We have fantastic guests. We do past album deep dives. We do lots of topical discussions with Russ and I about new songs and current events and pop. I just love those episodes. So as a little treat for Labor Day, I thought I would put one of those episodes out there for everybody to hear. If you enjoy it and you want to subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode or by subscribing for the audio only directly in the Apple podcast app, you can obviously do so. And if you just want to enjoy this one time freebie all access episode, you can do that too. So without further ado, here is our Pop Pantheon All Access episode from March

2024 about Beyonce's Cowboy Carter. We are gathered here this morning to discuss Beyonce's

brand new album, Cowboy Carter. We have a very special guest, Danielle Amir Jackson, who is the

editor-in-chief of Oxford American. Earlier this year, Oxford American

put together this incredible collection of stories that chart both the historical and the contemporary

contributions to country music from black artists. It's called Black Country, A Love Letter,

and Living Archive. She's also working on a book about women and the blues. Danielle, welcome to the show.

Hello. Thank you so much for having me. And of course, Louis is here too. Hi, Louie. Happy Beyonce.

Happy Beyonce. I definitely do not have as illustrious a list of credits as our guest does today.

So I'm very happy that I'm here with both of you to talk about an incredibly dense and sprawling body of work that we've only had, what, three, four days to process.

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