“Wednesday night, Beyoncé made a surprise appearance at the Country Music Awards to perform “Daddy Lessons” with Dixie Chicks, who came out of semi-retirement to cover the track last spring. It wasn’t the first time the CMAs had invited someone from outside the Nashville clique—last year, Justin Timberlake joined rising artist Chris Stapleton, but that didn’t cause half the backlash of Beyoncé’s ap”
