The album is a powerful compilation of Black female country artists re-recording the greatest songs of Alice's catalog, bringing to life the Black characters and portraits of the Black west embedded in her songs. The album is produced by Ebonie Smith (engineer of 'Hamilton', founder and president of Gender Amplified, and the in-house producer for the Atlantic Records studio in New York).
Alice Randall is a New York Times bestselling novelist, award-winning songwriter, and educator. She is widely recognized as one of the most significant voices in modern Black fiction and has emerged as an innovative food activist committed to reforms that support healthy bodies and healthy communities. She lives in Nashville where she writes country songs.
My Black Country Tracklist:
Small Towns - Leyla McCalla
Girls Ride Horses - SistaStrings
Went for a Ride - Adia Victoria
Sally Anne - Rhiannon Giddens
Solitary Hero - Sunny War
Cry - Miko Marks
Many Mansions - Allison Russell
Get The Hell Outta Dodge - Saaneah Jamison
Who’s Minding The Garden - Rissi Palmer
Big Dream - Valerie June
XXX’s and OOO’s - Caroline Randall Williams
Acclaimed songwriter and novelist (Black Bottom Saints, The Wind Done Gone) Alice Randall has written some of country music’s most recognizable songs. One of Nashville’s few Black female songwriters, Randall’s songs have been recorded by artists from Glen Campbell and Radney Foster to Trisha Yearwood, whose version of Randall’s “XXX’s and OOO’s” hit #1.
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