Beyond Beyoncé: 6 other black country artists to get your yeehaw up for ‘Cowboy Carter’
nypost.com“Cowboy Carter” — the Beyoncé country album that is dropping at midnight — you don’t have to hold up before she brings some more of that “Texas Hold ‘Em” twang.Here are six other black country artists who will get your yeehaw up before Mrs.
Carter takes us all the way to country town on “Act II” of her “Renaissance” trilogy — which will include a tribute to Linda Martell, the first African-American woman to play the Grand Ole Opry — at midnight.Coincidentally, Brown will be playing the New York area — bringing his In the Air Tour to Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Saturday — on the same weekend that “Cowboy Carter” drops.
Since making his debut in 2015, Brown has co-hosted the CMT Music Awards twice (in 2022 and 2023), become the first black person to win Video of the Year at the ACM Awards (for “Worldwide Beautiful” in 2021) and recently saw “I Can Feel It” become his 11th No.
1 hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.If you are a black female country artist singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl — which is exactly what Guyton did in 2022 — you know that you have arrived.But perhaps Guyton made an even biggest statement singing “Black Like Me” at the 2021` Grammys before she went on to become the first African-American woman to co-host the ACM Awards later that year.The husband-wife duo of Michael Trotter Jr.
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