“You can date country music’s position as pop’s rising force back to Lil Nas X’s inescapable Old Town Road. It began an uncomfortable conversation about homophobia and racism, and proved there’s a hunger for queer or Black country acts. Also in 2019, South African-born Orville Peck released his excellent debut Pony, yoking a magisterial baritone to beautiful torch songs about gay cowboy love. Peck ”
“While not every crossover on Stampede is fireworks, most of them land in the OK to great range.”
“The masked country singer tries his hand at a true duets album on his Warner Records debut, but it yields mixed results.”
