For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

In every era, Black practitioners from Lesley Riddle to ... the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy — for contemporary roots album of the year. Giddens remembered coming away from their long-ago ...

An even more explicit historical signifier on Cowboy Carter, the album that would eventually ... priorities of the movement to reclaim the Black roots of folk and country music.