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Songwriter Alice Randall Weaves Her Story Into the Larger Legacy of Black Country Music in ‘My Black Country’ Memoir
An accompanying album features artists including Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens and more.
Randall says it was Russell who pointed her to Ebonie Smith, known for her work on Hamilton and Sturgill Simpson’s Grammy-winning A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, as the producer on the project. I’m proud that with ‘Girls Ride Horses,’ the song was pitched to a woman’s label, MTM Records [a subsidiary of the production company owned by actress Mary Tyler Moore]. “Those creatives created all the strains that were existing in country when I arrived in 1983, as I was engaging it and I wanted to continue forward,” Randall says, adding, “I didn’t get to hear from DeFord’s own words.
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