Pushkin

That's Yola. Just a year ago, it might have seemed strange for a black woman from England to record a country album in Nashville.

But then, Old Town Road held down the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 for record breaking 19 weeks.

And black folks started reconnecting with their country roots on Twitter.

You couldn't have seen it coming.

Take it from the black kid whose first concert was Garth Brooks and was teased mercilessly for it.

But Yola's having a great year, singing on stage with legends like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, working with Brandy Carlyle and the High Women, even getting a shout out from Kendall Jenner on Twitter.

She spent years singing with folks like the Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and her band Phantom, Lim and England.

But after connecting with Dan Arbok of the Black Keys, her grand artistic vision came to life.

Soulful Country, the way it used to be.

This is Broken Record Season 3, liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Bruce had them met with Yola in New York over the summer. She'd been up late the night before doing the performance at YouTube Studio in Chelsea.

But she showed up anyway, with two members of her band ready to play some songs, talk about working with Dan Arbok and about how surviving a house fire inspired her to write her new album, Walk Through Fire.

She opened with a song from that record, Ride Out in the Country.

I can't got a kid.

I take a ride out in the country in the soft summer breeze, looking about you, looking about me.

Falling out of love with you, starting me as a thing to do.

She don't care about me, baby.

Running here is all I know, the country's satisfied with the soul.

When I think I'm going crazy.

I take a ride out in the country, it's all I can do.

With the whip of wind sings, the songs are over.

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