Rainbow Ruckus: The Holiday Playlist 2025
This holiday edition of Rainbow Ruckus features puppy dogs, the gift that keeps on giving, and waltzes filled with yearning.
Melissa Carper
INTERVIEW: Melissa Carper Crafts a Home For Us All
Melissa Carper crafts a home for us all in her upcoming album A Very Carper Christmas. We talk about tough holidays, cozy vibes, and how we can all encourage each other to be our best.
Rainbow Ruckus 10/28: Melissa Carper, Katie Pruitt, Lydia Loveless, and More! (Copy)
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features big breakups, big feelings, big transcendental experiences, and crocheted gifts.
Rainbow Ruckus 1/23: Melissa Carper, The Kentucky Gentlemen, Lucy Dacus, and More!
From revolution to love, this week's queer country playlist features the latest from Melissa Carper, The Kentucky Gentlemen, Lucy Dacus, and more!
Reader's Choice: The Best Queer Country of 2024
Rainbow Rodeo readers pick their favorite queer country albums of the 2024.
Melissa Carper -- Borned in Ya
Melissa Carper comes from a music-loving family where she was raised on roots music. The family record collection consisted of classics like Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, Sr. And once she made it to college, she was drawn to jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald
Rainbow Ruckus 7/3: Melissa Carper, Maren Morris, Jett Holden, and More!
Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? TK Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured