Welcome to the Future: Meet the Black Women Taking Over Country Music

Before you add “Yee-haw” to your vocabulary, let’s do a temp check first. Ask yourself if you listen to Linda Martell, Mickey Guyton, or Brittney Spencer. Chances are you don’t know these artists and have never heard their music. And that’s OK! Some country artists — Black female country singers — have slowly created spaces for themselves in the predominantly male and white industry.