{"id":11925,"date":"2024-04-29T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T16:50:29","slug":"a-more-inclusive-nashville-inside-durhams-queer-country-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2024\/04\/29\/a-more-inclusive-nashville-inside-durhams-queer-country-music-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A more inclusive Nashville\u2019: Inside Durham\u2019s queer country music scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>On a recent Tuesday night, the Pinhook bar in Durham looked more like a honky-tonk. The venue was dimly lit, but a small disco ball overhead illuminated a jumble of cowboy boots, hats and fringed vests. Over the bar, a flag read, \u201cThis ain\u2019t no goddamn country club.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A pink-haired woman took the stage alone, wearing an oversized graphic tee and fishnet tights tucked neatly into a pair of black cowboy boots. She bent over the mic, belting \u201cGoodbye Earl\u201d by The Chicks \u2014 her favorite song. Not once did she glance back at the lyrics displayed on the screen behind her.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was no ordinary night at the Pinhook, an LGBTQ+ bar better known for its emo aesthetic and drag performances. It was \u201cQueer Cosmic Country Night,\u201d and over 50 patrons packed into the venue for a night of country karaoke and line dancing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to country night! That\u2019s queer as f\u2013\u2013\u2013 everybody!\u201d shouted Kym Register, a country folk artist who owns the Pinhook, as the line dancing commenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A recent Tuesday night at the Pinhook. Photo by Mia Penner \u2014 The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LGBTQ+ artists have long pioneered pop music. Yet the country genre \u2014 often associated with Red America \u2014 has remained rugged terrain, slow to embrace queer artists and themes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the landscape may be shifting. As queer musicians like Brandy Clark and Orville Peck transform the genre on a national scale, country fans in Durham are taking notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many emerging queer country artists, which I find very exciting,\u201d said Samantha Schwamberger, a Durham farmworker who attended the bar night with her girlfriend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Local musicians are also arriving on the scene, finding fans among Durham\u2019s country music listeners and its sizeable LGBTQ+ community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*** <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I was raised for a future that was a lie<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I could kick myself for wasting so much time<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Went and hung my dreams up on the shelf<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

But they say you can\u2019t love nobody \u2018till you love yourself<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>From Max Lane\u2019s song \u201cBlank White Pages\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Max Lane was plucked from the church choir for a life of ministry. Now, he writes country music about religious trauma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an evangelical church, Lane\u2019s musical talent was evident from a young age. Church leaders, recognizing Lane\u2019s musicality, soon put him on the path to become a pastor.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as Lane grew older, he began to distance himself from the evangelical world. He felt like a \u201cfish out of water\u201d because questioned authority \u2014 and because he realized he was bisexual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have spent a very long time reckoning with my sexuality,\u201d he said. \u201cI was extremely repressed and hardcore closeted. I grew up in a community that was very vocally violent towards the gay community. And so when you grow up in those kinds of environments that are so vehement, you’ve learned to push it so far down that even you can’t find it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After leaving the church \u2014 and severing ties with his family and community \u2014 Lane fell into a substance abuse spiral. It wasn\u2019t until 2021, when Lane got sober, that he began reconnecting with his musical roots.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything felt natural,\u201d he said. \u201cI hadn’t felt that synchronicity with music that I had since I was a kid. I finally feel like I found my sound, but also, I felt like I found my voice, my writing style and everything like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lane, who now lives in Hillsborough, often writes about religious trauma and substance abuse, but he doesn\u2019t discuss his sexuality in his music. While he came out publicly on social media last year, he generally steers clear of the topic altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCountry is a weird space,\u201d Lane said. \u201cThere’s a lot of country fans that would not listen to me if they knew. So I’m very selective about who I give that information to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy brand is really more about the music, and I happen to be queer,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while Lane\u2019s music sounds different from country music radio (he doesn\u2019t dwell on Ford Trucks or beer), he believes his songs invoke country tradition, mirroring classic artists such as George Strait and Alan Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like people are starting to crave authenticity in country music,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like we’re kind of going forward, but in the way we’re going forward, I feel like we’re kind of going backwards in a good way. We’re going back to the times where people would actually sing about life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a former evangelical, Lane also feels sympathy for people \u201cstuck\u201d in communities that espouse right-wing and Christian nationalist views. He doesn\u2019t want to alienate those listeners, but he hopes to one day help expose them to the LGBTQ+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s hard to get out because if you get out, you lose everyone, and I did,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope down the line, as I gain more fans and stuff, that I can invite these people that maybe wouldn’t normally have conversations or even listen to people that are queer into a conversation that hopefully helps them out of their own ignorance,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Lane seldom writes songs about his sexuality, he\u2019s excited about the emerging queer country scene in Durham. He said he feels most himself when he performs in gay-friendly venues such as the Pinhook or Rubies on Five Points.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’d be nice to be able to see the scene grow here to the point where we can really make our own little Nashville \u2014 I guess, a more inclusive Nashville,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

*** <\/span><\/p>\n

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The bar at the Pinhook. Photo by Mia Penner \u2014 The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, I ain\u2019t asking for your approval<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Of the way that I express my gender<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t like the way I\u2019m dressin\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You can just leave this long-haired country queer alone<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span> \u00a0 <\/span> From John Rodney\u2019s song \u201cLong Haired Country Queer\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Other Durham country artists are opting for a different approach, hoping to foster inclusivity by openly discussing queerness in their music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take singer John Rodney. The Raleigh native moved to Durham \u201cto try and find some sort of queer community in the South.\u201d His most recent EP, entitled \u201cSongs From the Closet,\u201d includes tracks such as \u201cLong Haired Country Queer\u201d and \u201cTalking Hetero Blues.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy music in this EP I’ve released is kind of slanted towards making fun of straight people,\u201d Rodney said. \u201cI wanted to debut with something that was like, \u2018Yeah, we’re queer. We know you don’t like it, but you guys are also weird.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Durham musician Izzy Ryder similarly likes to push buttons. Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, she once enjoyed performing in small-town Texas, where her audience wasn\u2019t always accepting of the queer community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like to see them squirm in their chairs if they hear me talk about an ex-girlfriend of mine,\u201d she said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryder also views her music as a chance to directly influence listeners\u2019 views about the LGBTQ+ community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that as long as the art is prominent, the rest will be accepted slowly by those bigoted demographics,\u201d she said. \u201cThe art would convince anybody, just like stand-up comedy, if you pull them in and show them that you’re relatable and human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Both artists say they\u2019ve faced backlash online or in different parts of the country. Durham\u2019s country fans, though, seem to be readily embracing the new LGBTQ+ voices in the genre.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201c[Durham] really has blossomed into this super-accepting and encouraging community around queerness and around queer music in the last seven, eight years or so,\u201d Rodney said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Above: Max Lane performs at Rubies on Five Points. Photo by Mia Penner \u2014 The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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