Tag Willi Carlisle

REVIEW: Willi Carlisle — Critterland

Album cover for Critterland by Willi Carlisle. A painting of an oppossum with a baby in its pouch, with various other characters worshipping around it.

Rainbow Rodeo can pay contributors like KC thanks to readers like you! Sign up to our Patreon today to build queer country power! The most recent LP by Willi Carlisle, Critterland, is an engrossing musical voyage into a world both…

Rainbow Roundup: Analogue Pleasures

Issue 4 of the Rainbow Rodeo zine is chugging along! Subscribe to the Patreon today to get a sneak peek! In just about a month, I’ll be speaking at Country Radio Seminar about the need for diversity in radio programming.…

Queer Country at Americanafest 2023

Americana has been more or less defined as country and roots music’s island of misfit toys — including queer country artists. But in the past decade, as I wrote for The Boot, Americana the genre has become a commercial juggernaut,…

Queer Country Goes to Newport Folk

I first experienced the Newport Folk Festival on my dad’s shoulders, impatient and sunburnt,  completely unaware that I was seeing some of the most iconic folk performers of our time (The  Indigo Girls! Joan Baez! Lucinda Williams! Patty Griffin!). I…