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On 'Cowboy Carter,' Beyoncé beats country radio's gatekeepers at their own game

Cowboy Beyoncé Knowles Carter herself.Blair Caldwell/ParkwoodBeyoncé's new album "Cowboy Carter" is framed as songs playing on a fictional country radio station.Black artists making country music (including Beyoncé) have historically been denied radio play.With KNTRY Radio Texas, she ingeniously beats the gatekeepers at their own game.Six songs into "Cowboy Carter," Beyoncé disappears.Grainy burps of music by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, and Roy Hamilton emerge from the static, mimicking someone twiddling with the dial of an old AM radio.Suddenly, the spark of a lighter, a gentle exhale.

 

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