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Beyonce goes Country with help from Dolly Parton... and I love it! ADRIAN THRILLS reviews the pop icon's Cowboy Carter album as she goes back to her rodeo roots
ADRIAN THRILLS: Having established herself as one of the world's biggest popstars, Beyonce Knowles is now adding another string - a twangy one, made in Nashville - to her mighty bow.
Cowboy Carter is her first full-length foray into country music and, to ram home the point, the album sleeve depicts her as a Stetson-wearing rodeo queen perched (side-saddle) atop a great white horse. Cowboy Carter is her first full-length foray into country music and, to ram home the point, the album sleeve depicts her as a Stetson-wearing rodeo queen perched (side-saddle) atop a great white horse She shines on acoustic hoedown Texas Hold 'Em and, at the other extreme, delivers a harmony-soaked cover of Paul McCartney's Blackbird from The Beatles' White Album, which was partly inspired by racial segregation in 1960s America.
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