GIRL POWER! I’ll admit right up front- I’ve long appreciated the attitudes of the three women featured in this book (Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves) without actually listening to their music. But now they, and many others mentioned, have their own playlist that’s getting frequent play in my car.

Even though I wasn’t already familiar with much of the music discussed here, I was still fascinated by the inside look at Nashville and the machine that is the music business there. Moss deftly pulls back the curtain to show the everyday sexism and racism that is embedded into the fabric of the Nashville music business - and vividly portrays the young musicians who have helped begin to change it.

As a country music fan since basically birth I remember the women artists of the 1980s-1990s and as I grew up and got some disaffected I drifted to more rock and indie music. Returning to country music in my 30s was startling to see what it had became- bro country and hardly any ladies on the radio.

Marissa Moss' book is a well researched (and interviewed!) book about the ways that country music has changed since the 1990s and includes interviews and overviews of the the careers of many female artists of late- including Kacey Musgraves and Maren Morris. I enjoyed reading the book and it also made me look up lots of other artists that might have slipped past me.