Saturday on Max’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” Nashville star Darius Rucker said Beyoncé success with “Cowboy Carter” helped Country music look more like American and alleviate some of the stigma of racism.
Partial transcript as follows:
WALLACE: So this spring, Beyonce tore up the charts. Cowboy Carter was a huge hit. How big was that?
RUCKER: Huge. It was so big. I mean, I can’t express enough how big what she did was because she brought so many eyes to the to the genre. You know, one of the things I love about what Beyonce did is when I started making country music and having hits I’d have African American women and men come up to me and go I love country music. I could never say it until now you’re playing and I can say it you know and she brought I think even more eyes to the to the genre and more people looking at it and more black people going…
