Chuck Arnold
Music
By Chuck Arnold
Revealed
March 29, 2024, 2:28 a.m. ET
Honey B, meet Dolly P.
With out singing a single notice, Dolly Parton is the extra-special visitor on “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé’s just-dropped nation album that flips the script on the standard Nashville narrative.
And the Queen of Nation’s cameo couldn’t come at a extra excellent place than the “Dolly P” intro to Honey B’s cowl of her licensed basic “Jolene,” which not too long ago turned 50.
“Hey Miss Honey B, it’s Dolly P,” says Parton, 79, with all her acquainted, down-home heat.
Beyoncé spotlights black nation artists such Linda Martell, Brittney Spencer and Willie Jones on “Cowboy Carter.” Beyonce / Instagram
“You already know that hussy with the great hair you sing about?” she continues, referencing the notorious, man-stealing “Becky” from “Lemonade” standout “Sorry.”
“Reminding me of somebody I knew again when/Besides she has flamin’ locks of auburn hair … Only a hair of a unique shade, nevertheless it hurts simply the identical.”
Then Bey takes the mic to ship a soulful, acoustic-guitar-strumming rendition of Parton’s seminal hit — which, after being launched in October 1973, went on to high the nation chart because the title observe of the singer’s 1974 album.
Though it’s as nation as nation will get, there’s a little bit of a hip-hop thump behind the propulsive beat to let you recognize that that is nonetheless very a lot a Beyoncé album.
Beyoncé is trying so as to add to her report haul of 32 Grammys together with her newest album, “Cowboy Carter.” beyonce/Instagram
And after all of the ballroom home beats of the primary act of “Renaissance” — which got here out in July 2022 — that is Bey unplugged, uncooked and rootsy, breaking down how betrayal is aware of no shade earlier than a whoop-ass choir backs her up on the finish.
However Parton isn’t the one nation legend who — after Beyoncé hinted that she was not “welcomed” when she carried out “Daddy Classes” with the Chicks on the CMA Awards in 2016 — co-signs on “Cowboy Carter.”
O.G. outlaw Willie Nelson seems in two interludes — “Smoke Hour” and “Smoke Hour II” — because the host of a radio present on KNTRY in Beyoncé’s native Texas.
The primary interlude digs into the black roots of nation music, whereas the second breaks down Bey’s mission to convey nation music again to black individuals — with the banjo itself having a lineage that traces again to Africa.
Beyoncé can be honored with the Innovator Award on the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday. Beyonce/instagram
“Generally you don’t know what you want/After which somebody you belief turns you on to some actual good s—t,” says the weed-smoking icon — ever the rascal at 90 —as he introduces “Only for Enjoyable,” Beyoncé’s duet with the black nation upstart Willie Jones.
Different company on “Cowboy Carter” — “Act II” of Bey’s “Renaissance” trilogy — embody different African-American artists who’re two-stepping throughout shade strains in nation music.
Tanner Addell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts again B up on her countrified cowl of the Beatles basic “Blackbird,” making like Future’s Southern Baby.
Beyoncé continues her “Renaissance” trilogy with the “Act II” nation takeover of “Cowboy Carter.” @beyonce / Instagram
In the meantime, Linda Martell — the primary black girl to play the Grand Ole Opry in 1969 — receives cross-generational love on two interludes, together with “The Linda Martell Present.”
And — transfer over, Blue Ivy — Rumi Carter, Beyoncé’s 6-year-old daughter with husband Jay-Z, will get her close-up at first of “Protector.”
However “Cowboy Carter” doesn’t discriminate: Two of the largest white pop stars immediately – Miley Cyrus (“II Most Wished”) and Put up Malone (“Levii’s Denims”) — are additionally invited to this genre-busting hoedown.
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