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(Reuters) U.S. music superstar Beyonc on Friday released her highly anticipated country album, Cowboy Carter, which she says was born out of an experience years ago where she did not feel welcomed...
Country music legends Linda Martell and Willie Nelson are featured on the album released on Friday, which also had duets with Miley Cyrus, Post Malone and a cover of Dolly Partons famed Jolene...
Many critics offered praise for the album with Page Sixs Nicholas Hautman calling it the revival that country music so desperately needed...
Experts and fans view Beyoncs foray into country music as a reclamation and homage to the legacy of Black Americans within country music and culture a history that has largely gone unrecognized in some mainstream music circles...
The album also features a cover of The Beatles classic track Blackbird, retitled Blackbiird, which Paul McCartney originally penned as an ode to the nations civil rights movement, racial tensions and the struggles Black women in particular endured to achieve equity...
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