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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I tend to agree.
I’ve heard enough songs about
Girls in tight jeans/cutoffs
Pickups
Tailgates
beer
etc.
Homosexuality is no reason to turn against an artist. Freddy Mercury-brilliant showman. May have even done a country song.
You’re limiting yourself.
I heard him earlier today on Sirius/XM radio on the Outlaw Country channel.
I heard of Brandi, but that’s it. Was never a fan.
“ Rectal prolapse, STDs, rest-stop liasons, drag queen story hours...”
LOLOLLLOLOLL!!
Dwight Yoakum gonna make a comeback?
Stafford is gay? That’s the first I ever heard of that.
Mama, trains, trucks, prison, gettin’ drunk.
Brandi can sing, but she’s not my cup of tea, but I understand why people like her.
Amarillo By Morning. I like that one a lot, and it’s easy to sing. Written by Terry Stafford and someone else.
Jim wrote My Girl Bill, Little Red Riding Hood, Spider and Snakes...
Check his playing/comedy here, great stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU_a5ObBXzA
If anybody wonders why the Lord is allowing America to fall, read Genesis 19 and then consider the hallowed status of fags today.
Wait.. that’s a girl?!
Now she's licked.
I saw Queen ages ago in Dallas. Mercury opened wearing a cowboy hat doing a rocking version of “Jailhouse Rock”. A great start to a great show.
Yup, Dwight Yoakum and others were the dying remnants of pure country in the 90's. Now it's country-pop or just pop.
Anyone got other real country artists from the 90's?
Same here.
Freddy was the Paul Lynde of rock. Everybody knew, but they didn’t care.
“What do you call a 100 lesbians with AR-15’s?
Militia Ethridge”
Stealing.
Jim Stafford:
“People ask me how I got so good on the guitar. I tell ‘em practice, practice, practice.
I can kick this guitar 50 yards.”
The left can’t wait to ruin country music, like they ruin everything else.
Me too.
I want to hear something with those good old fashioned style of lyrics. What ever happened to those songs about his dog drinking too much whiskey and getting run over by an 18 wheeler? Ah, the good old days.
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