Both Black and white musicians played hillbilly music in the 1920s and 1930s and even collaborated during the ... Black country stars such as Stoney Edwards, Linda Martell, O.B. McClinton and ...

Black musicians have always had a place in the history of country music, despite the music industry’s push to label white folk music as hillbilly music, and Black folk music as “race records ...

But despite Black people’s historical contribution to its very fiber, country music still presents as a genre largely performed by white singers for a white audience base.