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Lexi Carson Nearly a month after Queen Bey dropped her record-breaking album “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé‘s documentary “Call Me Country: Beyoncé & Nashville’s Renaissance” is now available to stream Max. The documentary is produced by CNN FlashDocs and will highlight how high-profile artists like Beyoncé and Lil Nas X challenge the country music genre, and how their impact connects to the history of Black artists in Nashville. Released on March 29, “Cowboy Carter” is Beyoncé’s eighth solo studio album.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Moments after being honored at the American Music Honors of the Bruce Springsteen Archives, John Mellencamp took a moment to talk about its namesake at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theater in West Long Branch on Wednesday night (April 24). “I know you all love him,” he said of Springsteen. “He put down a big footprint — him and [Bob] Dylan, for me.

Holly Gleason There used to be a joke in old-school country music: How many girl singers does it take to sing Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”? The punchline was always an eye-rolling “All of them.” It spoke to the ubiquity of Cline’s influence, as well as the tired renditions of Willie Nelson’s torch lament every “chick singer” clung to. Back in those pre-internet days, Cline’s ubiquity was word-of-mouth, but deeply felt.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. It’s almost time to pull out your cowboy boots and fringed denim jackets. Stagecoach, the annual country music festival, returns to its home at the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, Calif.

Stagecoach Country Music Festival gallops back to Indio, CA’s Empire Polo Field for three days of singalong anthems, cowboy boots and honky tonk good times.Headliners at this year’s festivities include Morgan Wallen, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson and Jelly Roll.They’ll be joined by fellow big names Elle King, Dwight Yoakam, Bailey Zimmerman, Hardy and Clint Black.Post Malone will also be on hand to perform a special set made up of country covers as well.Rounding out the impressive bill are iconic non-country acts like Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Beach Boys, ’00s hitmakers Nickelback, party-starting Diplo, Hip-Hop hero Wiz Khalifa and R&B sensation Leon Bridges.In total, 53 (!) acts are scheduled to grace the Stagecoach stages over the long three-day weekend. That being said, it should also be noted there are rumors Beyoncé may make a surprise performance on the heels of the release of her hugely successful country album “Cowboy Carter.”Want to go?For those that haven’t lasso’d up their tickets yet, it isn’t too late to wrangle them into your inbox at the last minute.They will cost you, though.At the time of publication, three-day general admission passes start at $420 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes can be roped in for $439 before fees.Yes, you read that right.

The 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced tonight on American Idol by Ryan Seacrest and 2022 inductee Lionel Richie.

Beyoncé is making history, landing at the top of the music charts after launching Cowboy Carter, her first country music album.

“Texas Hold ’Em” singer made a last-minute pitch to country upstart Willie Jones to appear on her new “Cowboy Carter” opus — with the album deadline fast approaching to make her March 29 release date — it was either go big or stay home.“It was literally in the fourth quarter,” Jones, 29, told The Post of recording his “Just for Fun” duet with Beyoncé in the final stages of “Cowboy Carter.” “It was literally … end of February, February 20-something.”Jones got the call that would change his life from Alex Vickery, who produced his vocals on “Just for Fun” — which, despite its title, is a decidedly moody meditation.“She’s like, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And she’s like, ‘You know Beyoncé is working on a country album … [and] she loves your voice.’ I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ She was like, ‘Can you come out here tomorrow?’ I was like, ‘Send the car.’ ”And now the Shreveport, Louisiana native is galloping into history as one of the Black country artists spotlighted by Beyoncé Knowles Carter on “Cowboy Carter” — the undisputed event record of 2024 — which just scored the biggest sales week of the year in its chart-topping debut on the Billboard 200. Released to rave reviews (including mine), the LP also made Queen B the first Black woman to reign over the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, while simultaneously holding the top three spots on the Hot Country Songs chart led by her No.

following his heart attack on Thursday night. “Ford remains in the ICU, with his condition steadily improving in a positive direction,” reps for his team told People on Monday.“At this time, his family is requesting privacy and appreciates your continued thoughts and prayers.”Ford — nee Jason Farris Brown — first rose to prominence as a professional golfer before turning to music, putting out his first album in 2008. He’s best known for songs such as “Slow Ride,” “Times We Had,” “Dirt Road Anthem” and “Must Be the Country.” In the past, he has collaborated with various stars including Jake Owen, Chase Rice, Walker Hayes, Toby Keith, Lady A and Willie Nelson.Ford had just finished his set at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row — a restaurant and night club named after the hit singer — in Gilbert, Ariz., when he had the medical emergency on Thursday night.

Post Malone has performed a Hank Williams cover during a surprise gig in Nashville this week (April 3) – check out footage of the moment below.The cover arrives at a time when country music is having a resurgence in music. Beyonce released her new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ on Friday (March 29) which contains covers of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’, and features artists including Willie Nelson and Nancy Sinatra.Taylor Swift is also gearing up to release a country album next month with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, while Post Malone is gearing up to make a new country album too.

Orville Peck has teamed up with Country legend Willie Nelson for a cover of Ned Sublette’s ‘Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other’.The track marks Peck’s first release after signing with Warner Records. ‘Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other’ was recorded in 1981 by Sublette and was then covered by Nelson in 2006.Speaking to Rolling Stone about the duet, Peck said: “Willie kept talking about how the subject matter in this song was more important than ever.

made a controversial speech at the 2024 Grammys — while accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award with eldest daughter Blue Ivy, 12, by daddy’s side — in which he called out the Recording Academy for wife Beyoncé’s failure to win the most prestigious of prizes: Album of the Year.This, despite Mrs.

new album “Cowboy Carter” — and one of them is none other than music legend Stevie Wonder.After accepting the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles Monday night, the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer gushed over the 25-time Grammy winner who handed her the gong.“Now, Beyoncé is once again changing music and culture,” Wonder said of her latest record. “And when she’s not changing music, she’s changing the world, fighting the good fight.”As the mom of three accepted the award, she thanked the “I Wish” hitmaker for “making a way for all of us.”“And thank you for playing the harmonica on ‘Jolene,’” she added.“Tonight, you called me an innovator and for that, I’m very grateful,” the 32-time Grammy winner said.

Jon Batiste has praised Beyonce for “dismantling genres” with her new album ‘Cowboy Carter’.‘Cowboy Carter’ was released on Friday (March 29), her eighth studio album and the second in an expected trilogy that began with 2022’s ‘Renaissance’. Batiste wrote and produced the track ‘Ameriican Requiem’ on the album, which also features guest appearances from country veteran Willie Nelson, as well as Willie Jones, Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Shaboozey and Tanner Adele.In a new post on X/Twitter, Batiste lauded Beyoncé’s talents and thanked her for allowing him to be a part of the album, as well as pointing to the way he hopes her music will pave for a more genre-fluid future.“This is the moment yall, where we dismantle the genre machine,” he said.

Beyoncé‘s entry album into the country music genre, Cowboy Carter, was released on March 29, and it’s already shattering records on streaming platforms.

Beyoncé fans have complained that their vinyl issues of the new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ are missing five songs from their track listing. ‘Cowboy Carter’ was released on Friday (March 29), her eighth studio album and the second in an expected trilogy that began with 2022’s ‘Renaissance’. But, as reported by the BBC, the songs ‘Ya Ya’, ‘Spaghetti’, ‘Flamenco’, ‘The Linda Martell Show’ and ‘Oh Louisiana’ are said to be absent from the vinyl copies of the album.

Nancy Sinatra has expressed her admiration for Beyoncé after she sampled ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’ on her new country album ‘Cowboy Carter’.The star dropped her new LP yesterday (March 29), which included a cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Blackbird’ and a reworked version of Dolly Parton‘s ‘Jolene’, with lyrics that address Jay-Z cheating on her. It also stars guest appearances from country veteran Willie Nelson, as well as Willie Jones, Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Shaboozey and Tanner Adele.Sinatra’s song is sampled in the song ‘Ya Ya’, which she said in a post on X/Twitter she was especially pleased that Beyonce used.“To have a little piece of one of my records in a Beyonce song is very meaningful to me because I love her,” she wrote.

Beyonce has released a new album. “Cowboy Carter” shows Beyonce giving the country genre her own twist, featuring collaborations with country and pop artists like Dolly Parton, Post Malone, and Willie Nelson.

Cowboy Carter,” is a protest against the Nashville establishment after previously being treated poorly.“This is her life, this has been her life: You tell Bey she can’t do something, she does it,” a source close to the singer told The Post. “If you don’t invite her to the party; she will create a bigger party and shut yours down.

famous mom’s album “Act II: Cowboy Carter.”The country music-inspired record dropped on Friday, with Rumi appearing on the single “Protector.”“Mom, can I hear the lullaby, please?” Rumi croons on the track as the Grammy winner, 42, then sings: “And I will lead you down that road if you lose your way/ Born to be a protector, mm-hmm/ Even though I know someday you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your projector, mmm, mm-hmm.”“Even though I know some day you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your projector, yeah, yeah/ And even though I know some day you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your protector, born to be a protector,” Beyoncé goes on.Rumi — who is the twin sister of brother Sir Carter — is not the only singer in the family. Alongside parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z, older sister Blue Ivy, 12, also has some pipes on her.

Thania Garcia Beyoncé’s new album “Cowboy Carter” arrives after what the Texas-born singer says was a five-year journey she embarked on after feeling rejected by the country music world. On her eighth solo LP — a “Beyoncé album” not a country album, she insists — the artist freely pushes the boundaries of country music and utilizes the genre’s signature touchstones to make a sonic return to the house music of Act I, or 2022’s “Renaissance,” on tracks like “Riverdance” and “II Hands II Heaven.” Where “Renaissance” was an homage to queer club culture icons, “Cowboy Carter” features endorsements from Nashville’s best in the form of spoken interludes from icons like Willie Nelson, Linda Martell and Dolly Parton.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic What does “going country” mean to Beyoncé — musically speaking? That’s a mystery that really had to wait until this week to be solved. We’d already picked up a good idea of what country means to her culturally, in her few public statements in advance of “Act II: Cowboy Carter,” amplified in the one trillion thinkpieces published during the last two months, many of which really did help spur a vital conversation about Black exclusion and reclamation in one of America’s most important indigenous artforms.

Beyoncé’s cover of The Beatles classic ‘Blackbird’, included on her new album ‘Cowboy Carter’, has prompted a lot of reactions among fans.‘Cowboy Carter’ was released today (March 29), her eighth studio album and the second in an expected trilogy that began with 2022’s ‘Renaissance’.The second track on the album is a cover of the 1968 Beatles song, which she has renamed ‘Blackbiird’. Given the album’s embrace of country influences – including a cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ and appearances from Willie Nelson and Linda Martell – and its themes concerning race in American music history, the song has been chosen pointedly.Listen to ‘Blackbiird’ here:Paul McCartney wrote ‘Blackbird’ during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, just weeks after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

cover of her certified classic “Jolene,” which recently turned 50.“Hey Miss Honey B, it’s Dolly P,” says Parton, 79, with all her familiar, down-home warmth.“You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about?” she continues, referencing the infamous, man-stealing “Becky” from “Lemonade” standout “Sorry.”“Reminding me of someone I knew back when/Except she has flamin’ locks of auburn hair … Just a hair of a different color, but it hurts just the same.”Then Bey takes the mic to deliver a soulful, acoustic-guitar-strumming rendition of Parton’s seminal hit — which, after being released in October 1973, went on to top the country chart as the title track of the singer’s 1974 album.Although it is as country as country gets, there is a bit of a hip-hop thump behind the propulsive beat to let you know that this is still very much a Beyoncé album.And after all the ballroom house beats of the first act of “Renaissance” — which came out in July 2022 — this is Bey unplugged, raw and rootsy, breaking down how betrayal knows no color before a whoop-ass choir backs her up at the end.But Parton isn’t the only country legend who — after Beyoncé hinted that she was not “welcomed” when she performed “Daddy Lessons” with the Chicks at the CMA Awards in 2016 — co-signs on “Cowboy Carter.”O.G. outlaw Willie Nelson appears in two interludes — “Smoke Hour” and “Smoke Hour II” — as the host of a radio show on KNTRY in Beyoncé’s native Texas.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Beyoncé called in many artists to feature on her new album “Cowboy Carter,” spanning country icons like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson to up-and-comers including Tanner Adell and Shaboozey. But she also made it a family affair, enlisting her daughter Rumi Carter to appear on one of the record’s songs.

Beyonce‘s new country album Cowboy Carter has officially arrived and you can stream it in full right here!

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The sun is higher, the days are longer and festival season is upon us. As always, the packed slate of multi-stage music events scheduled throughout the spring and summer kicks off with Coachella, which will return to the famed Empire Polo Grounds on April 12th and again for Weekend 2 on April 19th.

Beyoncé‘s upcoming album ‘Cowboy Carter‘ will reportedly include a cover of The Beatles‘ Blackbird.Yesterday (March 27), Bey shared the tracklist for her album, which will drop tomorrow (March 29). So far, she’s released two singles in anticipation of ‘Cowboy Carter’, ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ and ‘16 Carriages’.Fans also spotted ‘Blackbird’ amongst the names, and it’s been confirmed that Beyoncé will indeed cover the iconic Beatles song for everyone to hear tomorrow. Some have also noted that ‘Blackbird’ was originally written in honour of the Civil Rights movement back in 1968 – perhaps a clue as to why Beyoncé decided to cover it for her country-inspired second act.‘Blackbird’ won’t be the only cover appearing on ‘Cowboy Carter’ – Dolly Parton also accidentally confirmed Queen Bey would be singing her rendition of ‘Jolene’ earlier this month.

Thania Garcia New details about Beyoncé’s incoming “Cowboy Carter,” out tonight (March 29), have emerged following yesterday’s tracklist reveal. The follow-up to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” features Post Malone on the song “Levii’s Jeans,” while Miley Cyrus lends her vocals for “II Most Wanted.” In addition, Dolly Parton appears in an interlude, as does Willie Nelson and Linda Martell, the first black female solo artist to play the Grand Ole Opry.

Miley Cyrus and Post Malone are among some of the famous faces to feature on Beyoncé’s new album, according to new reports.‘Cowboy Carter’ is set to be released on Friday (March 29), and will mark the pop icon’s eighth studio album. It is also the second instalment of a believed trilogy project that began with 2022’s ‘Renaissance’.There has been hype around the album for months now, and yesterday (March 27) the singer shared the full tracklist with fans.