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Carlene Carter is addressing the controversy around Beyoncé’s new country music-tinged album “Cowboy Carter.” The Grammy-nominated country music singer — whose mother, June Carter Cash, and grandmother, Maybelle Carter, were members of country music’s legendary Carter Family, and whose step-dad, Johnny Cash, was one of the genre’s outlaw heroes of the 1960s and ‘70s — said a statement obtained by TODAY.com that called Beyoncé “one of the Carter women.
” The album, whose cover shows Beyoncé wearing a cowboy hat while riding a horse, features appearances by Parton and fellow country music legend Willie Nelson, among other Americana musicians. Beyoncé previously hinted that she was inspired to record “Cowboy Carter” after an experience when she “did not feel welcomed.” “This album has been over five years in the making.
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