6/29/2023 0 Comments Sweet home country grammar video![]() ![]() Lane is a high school dropout who moved to New York City to become a fashion designer, succeeded, then quit and decided to become a country singer - inspired largely by an ex-boyfriend’s own artistic incompetence.īack in 2014 when I interviewed Lane for an Elmore print cover story about young women in country music, she told me she figured she could make music at least as good as her ex, if not better. The South Carolina-born, Nashville-living musician is releasing her third full-length record next month on New West, a small but formidable independent label focused on gritty, rootsy music of all strains. Nikki Lane is not your conventional country singer. It will highlight the great moments, and occasionally, dig deep into the bad ones, but the goal is always to bring more attention to a genre that is far too often swept under the rug due to class assumptions or music criticism’s clear rockist past. ![]() The purpose of this column will be to analyze and demystify country releases, large or small, and help halt the notion that Country music is somehow less deserving of introspective analysis than rock, rap, or pop. Country Grammar is a recurring monthly column about country music.
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