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Song of the Week 07/17/2026

Andrew Sa - Your Whisper

Super late this week as I'm traveling for work, here's some achingly gorgeous alt-country. The dazed, awestruck disbelief of love permeates like falling rain outside the window.

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"Lavender Cowboy" by Andrew Sa

DV:

Ever since reading about the growing queer country scene in Chicago (and elsewhere), I've been trying to find a way to reconnect with the genre. Unfortunately - and I fear this is outing myself as a fake country fan but I can't really help it - I kinda want all country songs to hit like Faith Hill in 1998. "Lavender Cowboy," for all its charms, most certainly does not. It's a lovely, heartstring-tweaking tribute to pioneering gay country icon Patrick Haggerty, but man does it have twang. Which is where a lot of queer country seems to fall - this is the kind of music that gets played on NPR and categorized under "Americana" at most record shops that carry it, not the kind that aspires to compete with Morgan Wallen on the charts. Which is probably for the best! But it does mean that while I can appreciate "Lavender Cowboy", I'm not really feeling it the way I thought I might. And that part's a shame, because mainstream country hasn't really been hitting like anything lately. It could really use a shakeup, even if it's impossible to fault Sa and his peers for building their own universe elsewhere.

MG:

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this is exactly what I've been trying to hear all year. Faith Hill simply doesn't ache the way a pedal steel aches. You can't wear "ragged angel wings" and be wrapped up in love. "Lavender Cowboy" might err on the side of preciousness, ceding a little raw power or a bit of grit to pure, tender loveliness, but that's what suckers me. I didn't watch Heated Rivalry but I did listen to a lot of podcasts discussing the relationship between the gay hockey romance show and its straight women fans and I'd venture what I like about "Lavender Cowboy" is operating within a similar dynamic. It sounds vulnerable and emotional in a way men often aren't -- more boyish and open-hearted. And yet, still lusty! It's "Desperado" made both explicit and delicate.

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Check out the stunning debut album, American Rough, from Andrew Sa!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Andrew Sa - The Christmas Ball (2011)

Andrew Sa – The Christmas Ball (2011)

Self ReleasedBuy: Bandcamp (Free!) One of my underground Christmas music is Kurt Reighley (AKA DJ El Toro), the fine purveyor of Festive! Fanzine, one of the OG publications in this whole scene. Last holiday season, Kurt discovered Chicago crooner (and self-described queer country singer-songwriter) Andrew Sa after Kelly Hogan (a friend of Festive! and an alt. country luminary in her own right)…