Veteran Nashville Journalist Marissa R. Moss To Release New Book On Women In Country Music

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Marissa R. Moss. Photo: Catherine Powell

A new book about the resiliency of the women in country music, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be, written by veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss is on tap for release next spring.

Her Country is Moss’ story of how country music’s female artists have fought back over the past two decades against industry systems designed to keep them down.

In the book, she explores how artists, such as Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price and more, have reinvented the rules to find their place in an industry stacked against them and maximized and conquered when it came to artistic output.

The book chronicles their paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boys’ club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place for all.

“I wrote Her Country after a decade in Nashville following women like Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton and so many more that were breaking rules, making high art, and setting the standards for the genre and beyond–with or without the support of radio,” Moss tells MusicRow of the new book. “Her Country is about how in the past two decades, country’s women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing, and how they are building a better future. I hope readers will leave feeling inspired and with a deeper understand of the genre and the women who revolutionized it–and a little fired up, honestly! “
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