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Rissi Palmer has lived and breathed country music her whole life. But as someone who knows the genre better than anyone, she’s decided that enough is enough: "It’s time for country music to know where the f**k it came from," she says. We couldn’t agree more. On her Apple Music Country radio show Color Me Country, the singer-songwriter brings to the forefront the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx histories of country music that for too long have lived outside the spotlight and off mainstream airwaves. Listen in as Rissi has riveting, funny, and necessary conversations with country music's most vital and underrepresented voices.

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This show is all about spotlighting the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx histories of country music that for too long have lived outside the mainstream. Host Rissi Palmer engages in riveting, funny, and necessary conversations with country music’s most vital and underrepresented voices. She taps into the minds of music historians, enthusiasts, hit songwriters, and the like—and plays a whole load of great music.

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Rissi Palmer has lived and breathed country music her whole life. But as someone who knows the genre better than anyone, she’s decided that enough is enough: "It’s time for country music to know where the f**k it came from," she says. We couldn’t agree more. On her Apple Music Country radio show Color Me Country, the singer-songwriter brings to the forefront the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx histories of country music that for too long have lived outside the spotlight and off mainstream airwaves. Listen in as Rissi has riveting, funny, and necessary conversations with country music's most vital and underrepresented voices.