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illyanarunnels · Playlist · 100 songs · 0 likes

It's BIG. It's BLACK. It's BEAUTIFUL. My Black History Month Country playlist is here! So, very obviously, I stopped doing the daily features after about a week. I didn't do any prep, didn't have the extra hours it took to compile them, lost power, lost water, moved my sibling, had a life, etc etc. BUT never fear, my EXTENSIVE spotify playlist is here. Bursting at the seems with 100 songs by 50+ artists, this playlist has something for everyone.

DON'T give me none of this 'I don't like country music' crap. You will like something on this playlist, money back guarantee. You like pop? Got it. You like rock? Got it. You like hip hop? Got it. You like oldies? Got it. You like Americana? Got it. You like it? I got it. Or, well, these amazing black artists do. There's a ton of songs, so feel free to skip around as much as you want, and please feel free to share!

gay-irl

judgejudyofficial

yeah u freaks up north look and sound exactly like this when u pretend that us southern queers are perfectly complicit in our own eradication - for the heinous crime of not living in a liberal population center.

hoshikostar

glitterygolem

I keep this image on hand for whenever I see similar sentiments.

ruffdyke

there needs to be more cowboy dyke rep, i cant be the only one thats just got my rifle my pony and a picture of my wife to keep me company during the long work days.

joniness

When the music business was first commodified in this country, y'know genre itself was a tool of racism. Like, if a black person sang a song and then if a white person sang the same song they would put those two songs into two different genres. The black song would be called a race record and then if a white person sang the song that might be called bluegrass. The music industry came before the film industry. It's an older industry so a lot of the film business follows the whims of music cause it's an older industry. That tradition causes certain genres to be ghettoized. Like this genre is beneath this genre. The horror movie is beneath the costume drama.

-Ryan Coogler on genre in Sinners: An Interview with Ryan Coogler

hobohobgoblim

saltedume

hannahlockillustration

What song is he playing?

queerpyracy

discovering the queer country scene has honestly been so healing because most queer musicians i've seen recommended for years i just couldn't really connect with because it wasn't the sort of music i listened to or had investment in and with queer country it's like. yes. this is the language i speak in. this is Fuck You, I Belong Here Too, not just as a queer person in the country but as a rural person among (sub)urban queers, and saying it with a laugh. when will my hometown take pride in me, goddamn it

beabaseball

Drop the list!!

queerpyracy

FIRST: rachel holst does the adobe & teardrops blog as well as the rainbow rodeo newsletter & zine. look into the black opry also, there are plenty of black queer country/folk/americana artists & there is a lot of collaboration between them and other queer country/folk/americana musicians

my personal list:

adeem the artist (especially the new album, white trash revelry)

paisley fields (stay away from my man is a good old fashioned honky tonk jam about gay on gay violence)

jake blount (the new faith is an afrofuturist album using roots music to explore life after climate collapse, HIGHLY recommend)

sarah shook & the disarmers (especially the album sidelong, ESPECIALLY the songs fuck up & dwight yoakam)

lavender country (everything but especially cryin' these cocksucking tears. patrick haggerty sadly passed in 2022 and we lost a real one. he self-described as a screaming marxist bitch)

flamy grant (okay so. bible belt baby is Technically a christian album that i was tricked into listening to. but listen. what did you drag me into is an instant classic)

mercy bell (especially who said we were friends. i can't hear the lyric "mea culpa/here's a gulpa/my drink in your face" and NOT recommend it)

amythyst kiah (if you haven't heard black myself by now what even are you doing. go listen to it)

do you want to speedrun a depressive episode as a queer woman who fears you may have too much in common with your father? listen to i drink by mary gauthier now

karen & the sorrows (there is a lot to recommend karen pittelman and the work she has done for queer country artists but i'm a useless lesbian so i'm submitting for consideration a photo of the red dress from the mv for guaranteed broken heart that i think about a normal amount: