Your Queer Country Guide to Americanafest 2026
If you're heading to Music City for Americanafest, we heroically highlighted all the best queer happenings to make your week more fabulous
Bee Delores
Sera Cahoone - I've Missed You All These Years
Bee Delores pans for gold -- and finds lots of it -- in Sera Cahoone's resliient collection of songs eight years in the making: I've Missed You All These Years.
Kam Franklin - Land of the Neon Sun
Kam Franklin electrifies the eardrum and slithers into your soul on her genre-blending country funk album Land of the Neon Sun, writes Bee Delores
Aaron Lee Tasjan - Get Over It, Underdog
Bee Delores reviews Aaron Lee Tasjan's latest, Get Over It, Underdog. Tasjan gets at the core of our collective tensions, Delores writes, but the album could have used some editing.
Allison Russell - In the Hour of Chaos
Allison Russell gives us a reprieve from the contamination of today's world on her new album In the Hour of Chaos. Bee Delores writes that it allows us to find ourselves again.
River Shook - River Shook
River Shook's solo debut makes the listener ache and feel every twinge of anger, sadness, joy, and love with the heat of a thousand searing cattle irons, writes Bee Delores.
Lizzie No - Outlaws' Almanac
Bee Delores reviews this vital Juneeteenth release. Outlaws' Almanac is a roots mixtape of rebellion and resistance from Lizzie No, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Nick Shoulders, Kaia Kater, Kasey Anderson, and many, many more.