Reblogging this from TIME. Article by Andrew R. Chow. Enjoy! I’ll be back with you soon.

– Ty

Over the past few months, a contentious debate has raged over whether Lil Nas X, whose single “Old Town Road” spent a record 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 this summer, is a country artist. But for the filmmaker Ken Burns, the answer is clear. “The fact somebody has walked into country music, that…

via Black Artists Built Country Music—And Then It Left Them Behind — TIME