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What's So Great About Picket Fences?

What's So Great About Picket Fences?

This essay about queer country music by Felipe Oliveira originally appeared in issue 2 of the Rainbow Rodeo zine. Subscribe to our Patreon so you’ll never miss out on an issue and stay up to date on queer country! Long before coming out publicly in 2010, Chely Wright recorded

Lessons Learned From Outlaw Country

Lessons Learned From Outlaw Country

It wasn’t until college that I realized “The Road Goes on Forever” wasn’t a classic American folksong. Robert Earl Keen’s slant rhyme-filled Bonnie and Clyde esque ballad, which was later covered by supergroup The Highwaymen, about a drug-smuggling couple who tragically run afoul of the law, brings