The Return of Lavender Country, Queer Country Pioneers | #Bandcamp_Daily
▻https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/lavender-country-blackberry-rose-interview
Nearly 50 years ago, a queer, Marxist country band out of Seattle released one of the rawest and most revolutionary records of its era or any other. Lavender Country’s eponymous 1973 debut is the earliest known album solely devoted to reflecting gay and lesbian lives in wake of Stonewall. Self-released and distributed almost exclusively through mail order because no retail outfits besides a few underground gay bookstores would dare carry it, Lavender Country sold out its 1000-copy pressing and then vanished from history. In the early ’10s, “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears” resurfaced on YouTube, prompting the album’s 2014 reissue on Paradise of Bachelors—and now Don GIovanni Records has released Blackberry Rose, a similarly bold sequel almost 40 years in the making.
▻https://lavendercountry.bandcamp.com/track/blackberry-rose
KRAB-FM Lesbian-Feminist Radio Program recordings, 1971-1982
▻https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv69396
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