Quote of the Day

[It’s] not lost on me that a black queer artist and a white country singer came together to sing a song about belonging.

America is starved for connection across divides and that performance shows how much music has the power to heal

– Katie Crosby
via X
February 4, 2024

Related Off-site Links:
Tracy Chapman Performs “Fast Car” Live for First Time in Years at 2024 Grammys with Luke Combs – Joseph Hudak (Rolling Stone, February 4, 2024).
Tracy Chapman Earns Rapturous Standing Ovation After Rare Live Performance of “Fast Car” with Luke Combs – Jaden Thompson (Variety, February 4, 2024).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• In a Historic First, Country Music’s Latest Star Is a Queer Black Man
• Lil Nas X, the Latest Face of Pop’s Gay Sexual Revolution
• Nakhane Touré’s “Tortured Journey to Clarity”
• Nakhane’s Hymn to Freedom
• Rahsaan Patterson: Standing Within His True Light
• Ocean Trip
• Remembering Little Richard, 1932–2020
• Remembering Prince, “Fabulous Freak, Defiant Outsider, Dark Dandy” – 1958-2016
• David Bowie: Queer Messiah
• Dusty Springfield: Queer Icon
• The Potential of Art and the Limits of Orthodoxy to Connect Us to the Sacred

Image: Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs perform “Fast Car” at the 2024 Grammys. (Photo: Getty Images for The Recording Academy)