A few years ago there was some young African-American woman who had a low-charting, one-hit wonder country hit. Does anyone remember her name and the name of the song?
Also, who are some other blacks besides Charley Pride and Darius Rucker who have made inroads in country music?
This came up in another thread recently; The Pointer Sisters had a country hit with Fairytale.
To answer your second question:
I don’t know how big a following he has.Cowboy Troy.
Is this it?
Yep. Thanks!
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I belive this is the first all black band to perform at The Opry.
If they played more stuff like that on country radio, I might start listening again. I liked it.
Not bad, not bad. Is it just me, or does she sound a lot like LeAnn Rimes?
I think it’s just you. 
Lionel Richie took “Stuck On You,” to #24 on the country charts. He also had a #10 hit on the chart with “Deep River Woman” a song with the group Alabama
Yeah, me too. I’ll be listening to more of her stuff.
Godamn! She’s fine!
She has a nice voice, but this is just the thousandth iteration of the “Yay, we’re country!” mindset that has been ruining country since at least the early nineties.
Methinks these singers do protest too much if they have to loudly proclaim how “country” they are. Let’s face it; most of them these days are children of the suburbs.
I wonder if Cassandra Wilson has covered any of her stuff?
This is where I’ve said that country is getting more and more like rap all the time. Today’s rappers go on and on about how “gangster” they are; today’s country singers go on and on about how “down home” they are. It’s one reason I’ve been really disappointed in Alan Jackson lately. He is, IMO, one of the most talented songwriters from the last generation of country singers, but for the last several years he’s really become a one-topic writer (at least on the songs that get released as singles). As I posted here a couple years ago, Alan, I loves ya, but ya know, everything above the Mason-Dixon line isn’t “New York City”, and “Southern men” don’t have a monopoly on hard work, patriotism, and morals.
Anyway, back to the OP - when I first heard “Hip to My Heart” by The Band Perry on the radio, I was convinced I was listening to a black female country singer. But then I looked up the video, and to quote a black comedian in a skit I saw on the Apollo Comedy Hour back in the '90s, “That ain’t a sister - that’s a white girl with a mad behind!” But there’s something about the way she enunciates that words that just sounded “black” to me. Their followup single, “If I Die Young” is a very interesting song.
“XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl),” a big hit for Trisha Yearwood, was written by Alice Randall, a Black woman who also wrote the novel The Wind Done Gone.
I just saw a reference (in a footnote in an article by one of my professors) to a compilation album called From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music. Looks like it’s out of print, but here’s a review of it.