My thinking was: now that we’re emerging from our solitude and cautiously baring our faces to the summer air, you might want to know who could be playing a show near you sometime soon.įor a list of some queer southeastern tunesmiths from earlier eras, I recommend “Looking for a Rainbow in the Mississippi Delta: Early Queer Blues” by my colleague Cher Guevara.Īl Riggs of North Carolina is the songwriter behind many “Sad Songs For, About, And Written By Birds.” I believe it the songs are strange, clever, surprising, and beautiful, with an avian practicality – birds sing because they’ve got something to say, and so does al Riggs. I’ve chosen contemporary artists for this list. A good live show can turn a crowd of strangers into a crowd of strangers who want to be friends. “There’ll always be a ghost in the back of your closet, no matter where you live,” say The Mountain Goats (they’re not queer country, but they have been my traveling companions on many lonely roads.) One of the great powers of music is to fulfill the longing for belonging. “All good cowboys know there ain’t no good-old home-sweet-home,” Mercy Bell tells us. For many queer Southerners, being at home is a form of exile-in-residence. Sadly, by the time I came out that ship had sailed. I was born in Tallahassee and my mother once told me that she had a plan for if any of her kids turned out gay: she’d move our family to San Francisco with the hope that the city lived up to its reputation. Check out Country Queers of Texas and the Northeast. This is the third article in our Regional Queer Country Series, where we take some time to scope out the queer country scene in regions all across the United States.
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