People saying Beyoncè is trying to gain white country fans have NO IDEA that Black Southerners have always fucked with country music My 1st job was at a country radio station. Willie Nelson is my mama’s favorite artist. I thought Johnny Cash was Black until I saw him on Hee Haw
@michaelharriot Hee Haw was the only thing we could watch at 6 PM on a Saturday in rural MS. 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ There are some great #country artists.
@michaelharriot @ErinBelitskus Yep, grew up listening to old school Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, cause the sounds of country, the storytelling, the harmonizing, that’s so clearly out of Black music
@michaelharriot Yea cuz we created it! My Grandma used to Drag my Mom and Aunt to square dance, and line dance, growing up in NC. Country music is Black American music🤠
@michaelharriot A lot of white country music fans thought Charley Pride was white until they saw him.
@michaelharriot Johnny Cash is gangsta. I watched 'Walk the Line' so many times my daughter & her boyfriend confiscated my DVD. That movie was the only thing that kept me going when I had to work a stint at a convenient store I reported my atty employer to CPS (stepdaughter) & got blackballed
@michaelharriot As a Black country singer, whose Mama is from TX/LA and Daddy is from Mississippi and who has a Master’s degree in Cultural Sociology (specifically African American Culture) Country music is just one of the many genres our forefathers created. And I’m glad to continue the legacy.
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