Alice Randall shines a light on the Black trailblazers in country music (including herself)

Update: 2024-03-13

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This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Alice Randall, who became the first Black woman with a writing credit on a #1 country song with Trisha Yearwood’s 1994 hit “XXXs and OOOs.” Randall has now written a memoir called “My Black Country” and it comes with a companion album of the same name.

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Alice Randall shines a light on the Black trailblazers in country music (including herself)

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Alice Randall shines a light on the Black trailblazers in country music (including herself)

Tommy Tomlinson

Alice Randall shines a light on the Black trailblazers in country music (including herself)