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Chapter 251: Acid Tongue

Female-fronted country & indie country

Women in country music have long fought against a good-ol-boys club mentality; country radio is mostly male, and the female artists that break out tend to be treated as tokens. That outsider status can empower women to take risks the dudes won't; Margo Price sets her classic country kiss-off against a subtle disco backdrop, while Kacey Musgraves skewers traditionalist values on “Follow Your Arrow.” Emmylou Harris, one of country’s strongest feminist voices, brings tremulous compassion to the grief ballad “Boulder To Birmingham.”
1. Neko Case

People Got A Lotta Nerve

2. Kacey Musgraves

Butterflies

3. Emmylou Harris

Wrecking Ball

4. The Band Perry

Better Dig Two

5. Jenny Lewis

Acid Tongue

6. Margo Price

Four Years of Chances

7. Lucinda Williams

Are You Alright?

8. Kacey Musgraves

Follow Your Arrow

9. Trisha Yearwood

Walkaway Joe

10. Emmylou Harris

Boulder to Birmingham