Ep. 126 - ALICE RANDALL [XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)]
Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters - A podcast by Scott B. Bomar, Paul Duncan
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Alice Randall, a Harvard-educated novelist, professor, and songwriter, is the only African-American woman to have written a #1 country hit. She joins us to talk about how she concluded that country lyrics are the modern day equivalent of 17th Century Puritan sermons; the reason that Steve Earle cussed her out; why it's harder to be a woman in country music than to be black; and her theory that country music should be defined as three chords and four specific truths.
