Alice Randall’s My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future, a blend of memoir and music history, arrived right on time for our Cowboy Carter summer, providing us with a sweeping genealogy of Black country and its impact on contemporary Black musicians. Randall, the first Black woman to write a No. 1 country song, dedicates space in the book to documenting the recording of her album My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall. The LP is a remarkable corrective in which Randall’s songs have been reclaimed by a “posse of Black Country genius,” including Randall’s daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, who performs a spoken-word version of the author’s hit “XXX’s and OOO’s.”
Best Country Album and Companion Book
Alice Randall, 'My Black Country'
Alice Randall
