Karen and the Sorrows joins Kym Register on their compilation album in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. As usual, the Sorrows create beauty out of grief with spare arrangements and the shining moral clarity that…
Karen Pittelman, founder of Karen and the Sorrows and the Gay Ole Opry and Queer Country Monthly, is the reason you’re here today, reading this blog It’s not just that she’s an inspiration to me, personally, but she has done…
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…
This review is also cross-posted on our sister site, Adobe & Teardrops. Karen and the Sorrows pulled a Beyonce and dropped her latest EP, Why Do We Want What We Want? this morning. Before we get into the EP, though,…
In this month’s episode of Rainbow Rodeo, trad country singer Julian Talamantez Brolaski discuss their time in Brooklyn in the 2010s: growing as an artist and a transmasc person. Brolaski was part of the circle of artists who helped create…
Karen Pittelman is the Karen behind Karen and the Sorrows and the founder of The Gay Ole Opry, which has laid the foundations for our current queer country seen these past 10 years. In her manifesto, Karen argues for a…