And how would people react if he were black singing country music and the headline said “black boy sings” country music?
I was a big Charlie Pride fan. Still am.
James Brown was a huge country fan. He called it the White man’s blues. Elvis was influenced by country, as well as Black gospel music he’d hear from the church next to the house he grew up in in Tupelo. Black and White musicians have been “borrowing” and “sampling” from each other for as long as pop music has been around.