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An accompanying album features artists including Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens and more.

For more than four decades the songwriter, New York Times best-selling author (The Wind Done Gone), and acclaimed educator Alice Randall has been one of the few Black female writers on Nashville’s Music Row, and the first to pen a #1 hit (Trisha Yearwood’s  "XXXs and OOOs"). And while she has seen her songs recorded by multiple generations of country artists - from Glen Campbell and Mo Bandy, to Marie Osmond and Yearwood - none of those artists looked like her. Until now.

The blues ace, poet and activist’s track previews ‘My Black Country,’ a forthcoming collection of songs penned by revered writer Alice Randall — all of which were originally cut by white mainstream country singers.

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