How Brittney Spencer, Joy Oladokun, and Other Black Women Musicians Are Reframing Country Music

ADIA VICTORIA ALBUM: A Southern Gothic LINER NOTES: As the title of her latest album suggests, the South Carolina native’s sonic creations are imbued with the deep hues of gothic indie blues—tales of life that both unsettle and intrigue listeners. In the 1940s, Sister Rosetta Tharpe strutted onto stages with a guitar strapped around her neck and helped invent rock and roll. Starting in the late 1960s, soul-funk-psychedelic pioneer Betty Davis (may she rest in funk) survived Miles Davis and made anthems for weird Black girls who didn’t want to marry a genre. Rock, gospel, blues, roots, folk. A little… Read Full Article