Important songs by Maren Morris, Taylor Swift, Gretchen Wilson, Sara Evans illustrate how the genre has changed
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It’s no secret that country radio hardly plays women. It’s become such an established issue that even talking about it at this point feels like a cliché. When country journalists and fans bemoan the problem, there’s a tendency to list off female country performers who were radio staples in prior eras as proof that the genre has since gone off the deep end: Reba, Trisha, Martina, Terri, the Judds, Dolly, Shania.on the state of country radio from earlier this year.
So in looking back on the contributions that female artists made to mainstream country music in the 2010s, we’ve decided that it’s worth examining the past 20 years of the genre rather than just the past decade — the better to highlight a recent history that tends to get overlooked.
As with everything country, the charts only tell part of the story. It’s disappointing but hardly surprising to see that all the women who have become “names” in the genre in the past two decades have been white, even as artists like Yola, Mickey Guyton, Hurray for the Riff Raff, the War & Treaty, Priscilla Renea, and Our Native Daughters have earned critical praise and devoted fanbases.
So without further ado, here are 20 influential, important, and all-around significant country hits by women from the past 20 years.
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