Linda Martell — the too-long-overlooked, first Black woman to reach the country charts in the early 1970s — reemerged on Cowboy Carter to drop some wisdom on us this year: “Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? Yes, they are.”
Dive deeper into Beyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ with WPLN’s senior music writer
Few albums have generated more conversation before their release than “Cowboy Carter” by Beyoncé — out today.