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  INTERVIEW: Kam Franklin owns her space on her recent album Land of the Neon Sun. In our interview, Franklin talks about that process...and singing with Kermit. http://rainbowrodeomag.com/interview-for-kam-franklin-country-is-where-she-belongs/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  CC Trubiak pays tribute to the country divas who didn't just make him gay -- they made him him. Learn how Dolly, Olivia Newton-John, and Tanya Tucker reached out and touched a boy growing up in Flin Flon, Manitoba and helped him to flourish. Sign in or sign up at the Podcast Buff level to listen! https://rainbowrodeomag.com/podcast/songs-that-made-me-gay-cc-trubiak/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lg...

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  Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor @rachelcholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features sumptuous Appalachian explorations, tragicomic patriarchal characters, and a tidy little package to describe all of our messiness. Jude Brothers The Male Pattern Katie Pruitt http://rainbowrodeomag.com/editors-picks-10-2-jude-brothers-the-male-pattern-katie-pruitt/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  ALBUM REVIEW: Bee Delores reviews Hope Is a Heavy Thing, the urgent new album from Joy Oladokun. "It's long overdue to actually listen to Black women about brutal reality," writes Dolores. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/joy-oladokun-hope-is-a-heavy-thing/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  As a genre, Americana is vulnerable to being ill-defined, vulnerable to those who want to make a quick buck, and – perhaps the most taboo in the entertainment industry – Boomer-coded. Here's how it happened. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/americana-is-cringe-stop-trying-to-make-it-happen/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  PREMIERE: Chicago's #QueerCountry Bandwagon celebrates National Coming Out Day with a simple but eternally true message: it's never too late to be who you are. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/premiere-queercountry-bandwagon-remind-us-its-never-too-late-to-be-who-you-are/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lgbtq #trans #transgender

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  ALBUM REVIEW: Bee Delores declares Orville Peck's new album, Mule, one of the best albums of 2026. Read the review here: https://rainbowrodeomag.com/orville-peck-mule/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq #OrvillePeck

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  INTERVIEW: Aubory Bugg knows what goes into a perfect song, and she knows how to get there. Read more at https://rainbowrodeomag.com/aubory-bugg-lets-herself-be-bad-for-a-little-while/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor @rachelcholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features telling secrets to strangers, dangerous nostalgia, and family silences. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/editors-picks-10-16-mary-bragg-vancamp-the-shandies/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  In this new video for her song "Night Off," Cindy @Emch@sfba.social celebrates her musical community and the anarchic warmth of her brand of queer country music. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/video-premiere-secret-emchy-society-take-the-night-off/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  This week's Rainbow Ruckus playlist features existential horror, lasting legacies, Texan grandmas, Texan exes, and a deceptively mild challenging of mainstream country music's chauvinism. Iris Marlowe Sug Daniels Marian Runk The Cowgays Brandy Clark https://rainbowrodeomag.com/rainbow-ruckus-10-20-sug-daniels-marian-runk-brandy-clark/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  REVIEW: Madds Buckley creates a pastiche of hypnotic pop with her interrogation of humans and machines on A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase. Bee Delores writes that the album is "deserving of focused attention" and a "delightful puzzle." https://rainbowrodeomag.com/madds-buckley-a-simple-binary-and-a-complex-phrase/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  On his new song "Run Wild," Brian Falduto delivers a heartfelt message to his inner child -- and to the rest of us. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/listen-brian-falduto-hopes-you-run-wild/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor @rachelcholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features risky country music, heartfelt serenades, and country at its best: irreverent while grounded in tradition. This week: Ratskin Family Band Country Risque Zachary James http://rainbowrodeomag.com/editors-picks-10-23-country-risque-zachary-james-ratskin-family-band/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq #drag #DragQu...

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  In our interview, Miles Gordon and Daniel Bromfield of Country Risqué tell us more about the album's inspirations and appreciating the hell out of men. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/interview-country-risque-will-never-fly-straight/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  This week's Rainbow Ruckus playlist features Christians for Goliath, getting older, toxic exes, relentless optimism, and healing warmth. Adeem the Artist Emma Jean Oakley Denitia Aaron Lee Tasjan Rachael Sage https://rainbowrodeomag.com/rainbow-ruckus-10-27-adeem-the-artist-emma-jean-oakley-aaron-lee-tasjan-and-more/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  ALBUM REVIEW: Jake Blount closes out a decade and a half in traditional string music with Single-Footing Horse, a wily, political, and seductive tribute to the work and mentors who have helped shaped him, writes Bee Delores https://rainbowrodeomag.com/jake-blount-single-footing-horse/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #bluegrass #StringMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  This week's Rainbow Ruckus playlist features Texas angels, acidic breakup songs, Flock-destroying folk heroes, eternal love, and wandering nature elementals. Denitia Tami Hart Nathan Evans Fox Maddie Zahm Jude Brothers https://rainbowrodeomag.com/rainbow-ruckus-9-15-denitia-nathan-evans-fox-maddie-zahm-and-more/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #nonbinary #lgbtq #NonbinaryMusician

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  ALBUM REVIEW: Creekbed Carter gives us one of the most important albums of the year with Peasant's Revolt, a winding exploration of the self, oppression, history, and the balm for all of it: hot dogs. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/creekbed-carter-hogan-peasants-revolt/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lgbtq #trans #transgender

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  We're not done yet! Subscribe TODAY to get a free t-shirt and zine -- plus, you get to help the queer country community! It's a great deal! http://www.rainbowrodeomag.com #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  INTERVIEW: Josaleigh Pollett returns to the Rainbow Rodeo hot seat to tell us more about their ambient folk sound collage, If I Let it Quiet. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/interview-josaleigh-pollett-throws-away-the-map/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #nonbinary #lgbtq #NonbinaryMusician

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  We're not done yet! Subscribe TODAY to get a free t-shirt and zine -- plus, you get to help the queer country community! It's a great deal! http://www.rainbowrodeomag.com #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  PREMIERE: In her new video for "Nexus," Rachael Sage calls upon her community of artists to create something hopeful from the ashes of Nex Benedict's senseless death. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/premiere-rachael-sage-in-the-nexus/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  We are so close to goal #1 -- 600 paid or free subscribers!!! And we're just halfway to goal #2 -- bringing in $500 a month! Keep queer country community strong and subscribe to Rainbow Rodeo today! Plus -- you'll get a free zine and t-shirt! https://rainbowrodeomag.com/#/portal/signup #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  INTERVIEW: Brogan Smith always knew he wanted to share his music in Nashville. In our interview, the singer-songwriter shares how he developed such a sensitive and heartbreaking pen. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/interview-brogan-smith-rediscovers-queer-family-in-bloodline/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  ALBUM REVIEW: On Jukebox in Exile, C.C. Trubiak spins classic country gold with songs that are never too reverent for the past -- but instead connect us to those who came before, and those who will come. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/c-c-trubiak-jukebox-in-exile/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lgbtq #trans #transgender

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  Only $150 til we hit our goal! Subscribe to Rainbow Rodeo today for free queer country T-shirts and zines! https://rainbowrodeomag.com/#/portal/signup #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  Only $150 til we hit our goal! Subscribe to Rainbow Rodeo today for free queer country T-shirts and zines! https://rainbowrodeomag.com/#/portal/signup #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

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  Queer Country Forever features queer country, roots, and folk artists from the past, present, and future -- with your host, @rachelcholst! Lavender Country Coyote Grace Karen and the Sorrows Chris Houseman She Returns From War Lafemmebear Melody Walker + Mercy Bell Fancy Hagood Paisley Fields Andrew Sa Jessye DeSilva Search Rainbow Rodeo in your podcatcher today! #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #TransMusic #lgbtq #trans #transgender

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  REVIEW: Bee Delores reviews Aaron Lee Tasjan's latest, Get Over It, Underdog. Tasjan gets at the core of our collective tensions, Delores writes, but the album could have used some editing. https://rainbowrodeomag.com/p/949eba7d-a127-4f03-babf-3c7d80209338/ #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq