Songs chart. First, Beyoncé became the first Black woman to top the chart with “Texas Hold ‘Em.” The following week, “Texas Hold ‘Em” was replaced at the chart’s pinnacle by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song ,’ marking the first time two Black artists have held the chart’s top spot consecutively.
“With Beyoncé and Shaboozey, it’s reinvigorated and rekindled the discussion, and it’s at the forefront of pop culture right now,” the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s vp of museum services Michael Gray tellswas originally released at the urging of Black country artist Cleve Francis and American Baptist College exec Nelson Wilson.
“When approaching updating this boxed set, there was the question of, ‘Do we go back and retool the first three discs? Do we start from scratch?’” Gray says. “We decided that the first three discs were a good representation and tell an important story, and it’s an artifact of its own time.” However, Gray says there were a few exceptions, with the addition of some obscurities discovered since the original release, including one by complete happenstance.
“We felt, of course, that we needed to absolutely have Black voices telling their experience, and it was important to get the experience and perspective of artists who have emerged in the past 20 years,” Gray says. “Rhiannon and Rissi, they are doing the work not only as musicians, but Rissi with her Color Me Country radio show and Rhiannon doing speaking engagements and writing, all the scholarships she’s been doing.
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