Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad: Country Queens & Rockabilly Babies Ladies Febuary 9, 2009

I was thinking a lot about the idea of girldom and how it relates to the identity of being "country." Perhaps it is because I am writing my thesis about blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta, and am currently exploring Raymond Williams's The Country and the City, in any case, the word country is a complex and rich cultural category that indexes a wide range of meanings. This show was my was of thinking about gender and country-ness in terms of music. What does it mean for grrrls to be country? How is country-ness constructed? Who is allowed to be country? and how does this category manifest in musical form? I am concerned with the way that grrrls interact with this country identity. The link below is to the show I did on country ladies. Of course, this remains a reflection of my own tastes in female country music ladies, and by no means, aims to present an exhausted list of all the country queens. I always welcome new suggestions and directions!


This is New Radio Country Grrrls

Track Listing:
Kitty Wells- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Anita Carter- John Handy Was a Desperate Little Man
Maggie Dee and the Ramblers- Waitress
Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn- Silver Threads and Golden Needles
Dottie West- I Don't Wanna Play House
Skeeter Davis- Half a Mind
Patsy Cline- Walkin' After Midnight
Lucinda Williams- Can't Let Go
Molly Bee- Bayou Joe
Benda Lee- Walkin' to New Orleans
Mother Maybelle Carter- Foggy Mountain Top
Crystal Gale- Clock on the Wall
Arlene Harden- Lovin Man
Lynn Anderson- Rose Garden
Tammy Wynette- Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- TB Blues
Lucinda Williams- Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor
Anita Veal & Bob Hooks Band- Daddy Let Me Go
Skeeter Davis- Hillbilly Song
Johnny Cash & June Carter- Jackson
Brenda Lee- Let's Jump the Broomstick
Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail- We Live in Two Different Worlds
Janis Martin- Will You Willyum
Bobbie Gentry- Sweet Peony
Loretta Lynn- Woman Enough
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- Long Black Veil
Annie Bird- Wandering Boy
Patsy Cline- Have you Ever Been
Goldie Hill- Live From Tomorrow
Lucinda Williams- Drop Down Daddy
Emmylou Harris- Blue Kentucky Girl
Aunt Molly Jackson- I Love Coal Miners, I Do
Bobbie Gentry- Ode to Billie Joe
Linda Ronstadt- That'll Be the Day
Dolly Parton- You Ole Handy Man
Carolyn Hester- The Rivers of Texas
Brenda Lee- Dynamite