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Color Me Country A Celebration of Black Women Who Shaped Country Music

Kelly McCartney

Multitalented Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens paints women of color up-front and center-stage in this vibrant homage to some of country music’s first and finest. Featuring a coloring sheet on the back of the jacket! In 2020, Linda Martell, the first Black woman to play on the legendary

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This album was released in 1970 and was described as first-rate pop country that held up well decades later, although the country industry's racist treatment of Martell buried the record at the time.

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Martell released only one album in 1970 called Color Me Country. A half century later, it holds up as first rate pop country but at the time, the country industry's racist treatment of Martell buried...

— Episode: Best Of: Sue Bird / Sleater-Kinney

Episode: Best Of: Sue Bird / Sleater-Kinney

This album was released in 1970 and was described as first-rate pop country that held up well decades later, although the country industry's racist treatment of Martell buried the record at the time.

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Martell released only one album in 1970 called Color Me Country. A half century later, it holds up as first rate pop country but at the time, the country industry's racist treatment of Martell buried it.

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