Howdy, cowpokes. Rainbow Rodeo is proud to support independent and DIY musicians throughout country, blues, Americana, folk, and all the other roots genres you can shake a guitar pick at. But LGBTQ+ artists are often marginalized in greater society, which…
Rainbow Rodeo is thrilled to present another brilliant essay about the history of cowboys in queer country by Stefanie Cuthbert! To read the entire list of queer cowboy songs Cuthbert covers — and its companion playlist — subscribe to the…
A rough draft of this essay appeared on Friday’s Rainbow Rodeo newsletter For those of you who are not familiar, Country Radio Seminar is the industry event where radio programmers meet up and make totally-not-payola deals with the major record…
Read the full essay on the weekly Rainbow Rodeo newsletter — and get artist resources, events, and queer country news from around the web in your inbox! Before anything else, I want to give a huge thank you to Jeremy…
I haven’t had much juice for these weekly recaps lately because I was busy working on this article for the Nashville Scene, which is about the transphobic incidents at Americanafest and the AMA’s response to it. I am very grateful…
To be fair, I’m writing this at 8 AM before I head out for the long weekend. It’s entirely possible that the Americana Music Association (AMA) will release something potentially embarrassing on the cusp of a long weekend when people…
Something was in the water in the Southeast last weekend because, I tell ya, the Devil was hard at work. Last Thursday, gay country singer Adam Mac was disinvited from his hometown Tobacco Festival who had “questions about what kind…
Happy new year to all who observe! For those of you unfamiliar with the Jewish calendar, this weekend marks Rosh Hoshanah, the new year, and next week will mark Yom Kippur, our day of repentance and desire to cleanse ourselves…
(cw: mild homophobia) Last week, I wrote about Nashville’s reluctance to risk a dollar in the face of the unfamiliar. It wasn’t the most coherent so….sorry, but I think I got it a little more concise in my review of…
It seems like every time I go on vacation this summer there is a new embarrassing country music fiasco. Does my presence in New York City protect some kind of cosmic ley line that preserved order in country music??? There…