Posted on 03/05/2022 11:42:26 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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Singing gay love songs once killed the careers of artists like Patrick Haggerty, whose band Lavender Country in 1973 released what's widely considered the first country album recorded by an out gay performer. Even artists who came out decades later, like k.d. lang and Chely Wright, said their careers stalled after they made their sexuality public.
Now, out queer people are some of the most celebrated country stars. Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X are Grammy winners. T.J. Osborne, one half of the Brothers Osbourne, came out last year, the first out gay artist signed to a major country label. Trixie Mattel, who won her season of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars," incorporates original music inspired by Loretta Lynn and June Carter Cash into her drag act. And Black queer artists like Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Joy Oladokun are reaching audiences across genres.
Queer country artists are telling familiar stories -- first love, heartbreak and learning to heal -- from perspectives that were once shut out across the music industry. The sincerity and undeniable talent of country's queer performers are changing narrow ideas of what country music can be -- and who gets to perform it…
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“Stafford is gay? That’s the first I ever heard of that.”
Standing joke after he wrote “My Girl Bill”.
He was married at least twice, once to Bobbie Gentry for about a year I think.
There are plenty of musicians that I really like, and really hate their politics. I can still enjoy the music though. there will always be these misfits. Who am I to judge.
“The left can’t wait to ruin country music, like they ruin everything else.”
One of my early teachers liked to say, “There’s no such thing as bad music, just bad musicians.”
Good music lives on.
Needs a BARF ALERT!
“Stafford? Really.”
That was my reaction too. He was married to Bobbie Gentry.
From the past there was Teddy Wilburn and probably Wilma Burgess. But they weren’t exactly out. Just minded their own business and made good music.
They won because they were gay, not because the music was do damn country..........pushing the gay lifestyle as if it is normal, and giving out ince prestigious awards is, if you will, a backdoor way, of making it “acceptable “
I could careless if they are gay.
Sing...
Not from the 90s but guy I like and halfway follow countrywise is a Canadian singer, Corb Lund. Try: Good Copenhagen, Tool for the Job, Keep an Edge on Your Knife, and Roughest Neck Around-—a song about oilfield workers, dedicated to his brother
I haven't either. But I don't listen all that much to the music of today.
We are so blessed to have such a prestigious and influential network dedicated to sniffing out the important and not to be ignored things in life, rather than boring things like inflation, corruption, and a collection of “leaders” who’d bankrupt a lemonade stand. Well, at least they gave us a look at the second definition of “bareback”.
Freddy Mercury and country music?
That would be awesome
And I don’t get the Amarillo By Morning reference. What am I missing here?
And the “Great American Freak Show” continues to expand. All the pervs gotta fag up everything!
Somehow “queer in my beer” just doesn’t sound the same. LOL
Isn't that what the serpent said to Eve?
Bingo !
Yeah joking, see #41. Gentry was a short marriage, his first was long. Don’t know about after that.
LOL. Beat me to it.
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