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Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future Binding:Hardcover and circumstanceAlice Randall, award winning professor, songwriter, and author presents "a celebration of all things country music" (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXX's and OOO's (An