If I was a superstar country singer, this is what I would do with my money. Boots by Lisa Sorrell.

I already posted a song from The Highwomen, but I didn’t tell you much about them. The Highwomen is a supergroup of all women singers, most of them country, but not all. I hope with all my heart that the rumor I heard recently that they are making a second album is true.

I love their voices working together in partnership and I love the partnership itself. Most media, most mythology, would have us all believe that women can’t support each other. They would prefer we all catfight all the time.

Country music has a lot of talented women performers and yet—

Have you heard of Tomato Gate? Pause to learn about Tomato Gate here.

—and yet, it is not a welcoming place for women artists. That’s why you see many women artists, young women especially, leaving country music for the warmer welcome of pop music.

Artists can be whatever they want to be. They can evolve. They can change. But I wish it was always because they want to change, or they want to evolve. The idea that there’s only so much room in country music for women (not much) is ridiculous.

In Wreck Your Heart, Dahlia is a bit of a loner, maybe a bit of a diva. But she’s in a band of all women musicians. Can she come to value her role as part of a group?

Anyway, I love all the singers in The Highwomen, solo and together. They seem to get along just fine, and make room at the table, crowded as it is, for each other and for visitors, too.

It’s not like they’re Fleetwood Mac, right?

Well… sometimes they’re Fleetwood Mac. But only in the best way possible: “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, performed by The Highwomen.