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Rhiannon Giddens Explains Mixed Feelings About Playing on Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’
Rhiannon Giddens said that Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' has given her mixed feelings after appearing on "Texas Hold 'Em." Get the details.
One year after the release of Beyoncé’s Billboard 200-topping album Cowboy Carter, “Texas Hold ‘Em” banjo player Rhiannon Giddens is opening up about feeling conflicted over her contributions to the culture-shifting project. Featuring collaborations with Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus and Post Malone, the project sparked much discourse about the bounds of genre and whether Bey was “country enough” to make the pivot. At one point, Giddens herself even responded to the backlash Cowboy Carter faced from country music purists — whose dismissal of the album she said was “just racism” in an IMPACT x Nightline interview.
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