Wed Oct 15 2025

It's A Queer Country

hosted by Levi Langley

6:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Left out of mainstream alt-country movements that emerged in the South in the ‘90s and early 2000s, queer musicians primarily fled to Texas — largely to towns such as Austin and Denton — to pioneer their own underground scenes of folk-country-americana goodness. From the gay rodeo circuit to Austin’s DIY co-op spaces, make-shift spaces for queer alt-country musicians were derived not for aesthetics but out of necessity. Take your punk, anti-establishment ethos, throw a cowboy hat on it, and listen to the sweet guitar sounds of this (extremely) queer country!

Crystal Cave - Little Mazarn, Mustang Island (Dear Life Records) 2025

Our Town - Iris DeMent, Infamous Angel (Yep Roc Records) 1991

Ain't Life a Brook - Ferron, Testimony (Ferron) 1979

Prove It on Me Blues - Ma Rainey, Presenting Ma Rainey () null

Could Have Done Anything - Charlotte Cornfield, Could Have Done Anything (Next Door Records) 2023

Storm - Free Range, Lost & Found (Mick Music) 2025

Everywhere I Go - Cat Clyde, Down Rounder (Second Prize Records) 2023

Wish I Was a Single Girl Again - Tia Blake, Folksongs & Ballads (Caravage) 1970

Neverrr Everrr - villagerrr & Merce Lemon, Tear Your Heart Out (Deluxe Edition) (Winspear) 2025

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Godman's Bottoms - Brandon Godman, I Heard the Morgan Bell (Brandon Godman) 2024

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Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet) - Lucinda Williams, Happy Woman Blues (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) 1979

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Sweet Jane (With Affection) - Two Nice Girls, 2 Nice Girls (Seasick Sailor Records) 1989

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Sweetcorn Ramble - Joseph Allred, The Rambles & Rags of Shiloh (Worried Songs) 2022

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Are You Leaving for the Country - Karen Dalton, In My Own Time (Light In The Attic) 1970

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I Can't Shake the Stranger Out of You - Lavender Country, Lavender Country (Paradise of Bachelors) 1973

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Love Somebody - Ginni Clemmens, Gay and Straight Together (Folkways Records) 1980

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Loretta - Norah Jones, Featuring Norah Jones () null

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I Just Want To Talk To You - Charles Brown & Sleepy Creek, I Just Want To Talk To You (Numero Group) 2020

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Lady-O (Live at Boston Music Hall) - Judee Sill, Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live (Rhino/Elektra) 2018

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Once a Bunch - Adrianne Lenker, Once a Bunch - Single (4AD) 2024

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Somebody Touched Me - The Fairfield Four, Standing On the Rock (Universal Music Enterprises) 1994

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Constant Craving - k.d. lang, Recollection (Nonesuch) 2010

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You Don't Know - Florry, Big Fall (12XU) 2021

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Misty Blue - Wilma Burgess, Her Very Best - EP (K-tel) 2007

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If She Ever Leaves Me - The Highwomen, The Highwomen (Low Country Sound/Elektra) 2019

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Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other - Willie Nelson, Lost Highway (Norwegian Version) (Lost Highway Records) 2009

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Once There Was No Sun - Jake Blount, The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) 2022

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Ramblin' Soul - Melissa Carper, Ramblin' Soul (Mae Music) 2022

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C'mon Baby, Cry - Orville Peck, Bronco (Columbia) 2022