Black Country Music: Tracing Its Past to Beyoncé
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:14.0 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Bridget Bergen filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:18.0 | Beyonce's latest album, Act 2, Cowboy Carter, hit number one on the Billboard |
| 0:23.0 | Country Albums charts this week, making her the first black woman to ever top that chart. |
| 0:29.0 | And with the news came an outpouring of black artists, writers, and historians who are all |
| 0:33.8 | saying that country music wouldn't be what it is without its roots in African-American culture. |
| 0:40.1 | Joining us now to discuss the legacy of black country music and trace its roots to today's historic achievement is novelist and songwriter Alice Randall. |
| 0:49.7 | Her new book is titled My Black Country, A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome to WNYC, Alice. |
| 0:59.9 | Wonderful to be with you in this historic week. |
| 1:02.9 | And listeners, we can take your calls on two tracks here. |
| 1:07.4 | If you're a black fan of country music, call in and tell us what about it you love |
| 1:13.0 | about country music in the genre? Who are your favorite artists? What do you think of Beyonce's new |
| 1:18.3 | album? And if you're a fan of black country music, we'll invite you to answer the same questions. |
| 1:23.7 | The number, 212-433 W-N-YC. that's 212-433-9-692. And of course, we'll invite Beyonce |
| 1:33.6 | fans. How much of a departure do you think this genre-bending album is from Beyonce's previous work? |
| 1:40.8 | What do you like about it? What's your favorite track or anything else you want to say about |
| 1:44.6 | the news that Beyonce is the first black woman to reach number one on Billboard's country |
| 1:50.3 | albums chart? 212-433 W-N-YC. That's 212-433-9-692. You can also text us at that number. Alice, 30 years ago in 1994, you actually became the first |
| 2:06.0 | black woman to co-write a number one country hit with Trisha Yearwigs, X's and O's, an American |
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