Country Music Doesn’t Deserve Its Conservative Reputation

Nick Shoulders

Musician Nick Shoulders talks to Jacobin about a genre that has long broadcast the struggles and aspirations of working people.

Photo courtesy Nick Shoulders.

Nick Shoulders, a singer-songwriter from the Ozarks region in Arkansas, has spent his career countering the myth that country is right-wing, both in his music and by drawing attention to the genre’s sometimes radical history. As he points out in this excerpt from a longer conversation with Jacobin, country music was a working-class tradition that […]

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