Alice Randall’s ‘My Black Country’ Paints a Fuller Picture

Brittney McKenna

April 10, 2024

Nashville Scene

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Alice Randall’s My Black Country was a lifetime in the making. The Nashville multihyphenate’s new memoir and accompanying collaborative album draw from Randall’s four-plus decades as a songwriter, professor, author and mother. Together they offer a glimpse at the life of a Black woman who deeply loves a genre that doesn’t typically love her back: country music.

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