which you need a passport or a visa or some relaxed immigration laws. it is abutting the blues. it is abutting jazz. it is abutting rhythm and blues. it is, in fact, with rhythm and blues, the parents of rock n roll. it abuts rock n roll and gospel and folk and pop and even classical and rap. what you find is that a.p. carter needs that black song catcher. hank williams said the only education he needed was from rufus payne. even bill monroe, the father of bluegrass had schultz, an african-american fiddle player, interwoven into all of this music is the blues and our history that we don t always focus on, but is there and is there in country music from the very beginning. and so we shouldn t be surprised that lil nas x, a black gay rapper, has just had the number one country song of all time
which you need a passport or a visa or some relaxed immigration laws. it is abutting the blues. it is abutting jazz. it is abutting rhythm and blues. it is, in fact, with rhythm and blues, the parents of rock n roll. it abuts rock n roll and gospel and folk and pop and even classical and rap. what you find is that a.p. carter needs that black song catcher. hank williams said the only education he needed was from rufus pane. even bill monroe, the father of bluegrass had schultz, an african-american fiddle player, interwoven into all of this music is the blues and our history that we don t always focus on, but is there and is there in country music from the very beginning. and so we shouldn t be surprised that lil nas x a black gay
class call and rap. hank williams said, the only education he needed was from a bluesman. johnny cash had gus cannon, a jug band bluesman. and even bill monroe, the father of bluegrass had arnold schultz, an african-american fiddle player. interwoven into all of this music is the blues and our history that we don t always focus on, but is there and is there in country music from the very beginning. and so, we shouldn t be surprised that lil nas x, a black gay rapper that had the number one country song. we continually allow ourselves to be surprised because we forget in our top-down version of the past that race is central to the u.s. and to us, in both the intimacy of that and the majesty and the breadth and the complexity and the controversy. what a pleasure.