HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF
Country music has never been cool. I really like country music. I’ll argue against the ropes for its inherent queerness. I have a friend who switches the TV off at the slightest whiff of a six-stringed guitar. I am not that person. I am the person who asks the Uber driver to turn up Country FM.
Cut to me, very excited to be sharing a green room with Alynda Lee Segarra of Hurray For The Riff Raff before their Leicester show. Along with artists like Alabama Shakes, HFTRR form part of a movement politicising country music. With its chequered nationalist history, does Segarra see herself as working within a country tradition or queering it?