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Cowboy Carter has arrived in areas of the world the place it’s already Friday — i.e., New Zealand and Australia — and extra particulars about Beyoncé’s new album have emerged.
Yesterday’s reveal of the Cowboy Carter monitor checklist confirmed that the album featured her long-rumored cowl of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” however the Australasian launch additionally brings information that “Blackbiird” — stylized with double i’s on the monitor checklist — is definitely a canopy of the Beatles’ White Album traditional “Blackbird,” a track that Paul McCartney penned in tribute to the Little Rock 9.
The album itself is introduced as a broadcast by fictional Texas radio station KNTRY, and the nation legends name-checked on the monitor checklist — Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and nation pioneer Linda Martell — all pop up as visitors in interludes all through the album.
As for different visitors, Miley Cyrus seems on the Cowboy Carter minimize “II Most Needed,” whereas Submit Malone stops by on the very subsequent monitor, “Levii’s Denims.” Shaboozey contributes to the monitor “Spaghettii,” whereas Tanner Adell and Willie Jones are additionally among the many album’s visitors. (Opposite to what the complete web needed, Taylor Swift doesn’t seem on Cowboy Carter.)
Nevertheless, as Rolling Stone beforehand reported, whereas they received’t be listed as “featured artists,” Beyoncé recorded “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” with an assortment of well-known musicians. The celebrated multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens performed banjo and viola on “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” whereas pedal metal participant Justin Schipper, metal guitarist Robert Randolph, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Raphael Saadiq joined her on “16 Carriages.”
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“Once we did the primary session, I used to be like, ‘What are we doing?’” Randolph advised Rolling Stone. “Raphael stated, ‘Right here’s what Beyoncé has in her head. And also you had been hand-picked since you’re the one man who might do that.’ Beyoncé already had an concept of what she needed to do. She needed to do one thing with some taking part in, with some nation fireplace. She stated she preferred the best way I make my instrument sound like a singer.”
Relying in your time zone, Cowboy Carter will arrive at midnight on Friday.