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Rewriting Country, the Orville Peck Way

By Chris Azzopardi Photos: Ben Prince

Orville Peck’s sexy video for “Cowboys Are notion that only straight, white people can strum a Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other” is guitar and sing with a backwoods twang. unabashedly queer in ways the country music Before setting off on his “Stampede” headlining genre hasn’t historically seen. In it, Peck sings his summer tour, I spoke with Peck about why he’s cover of Latin country musician Ned Sublette’s letting more of his face peak out of his signature 1981 song as a collaboration with Willie Nelson face mask, what other allies can learn from Willie — who, inspired by “Brokeback Mountain,” Nelson and the “beautiful gift” of inspiring kids in performed a solo version of the song in 2006 — rural communities to be themselves. but now, especially, Peck’s modern take feels like a very welcome subversion of what we’ve come As a longtime country fan, I feel like I’ve to know as country music. Man hands graze man been manifesting you in various ways since I butts. Women slow dance intimately with other was a kid who grew up on this music. During women. Twinks in tight blue jeans bale hay. In interviews with country superstars like Dolly other words, this saloon is serving more than beer. and Reba who I’ve interviewed over the years, I’ve even asked them, as if they had the Ever the ally, it was actually Nelson’s idea to revisit answer: “Why can’t we have an out gay male the song with Peck, who recently released the country artist?” And here you are. What does tune as part of “Stampede Vol. 1,” his first duets it feel like to know that you are what so many album. The seven-song collection also features a LGBTQ+ country fans have been manifesting collaboration with Elton John on “Saturday Night’s and hoping for for decades?

Alright (For Fighting)” and “Chemical Sunset” with fellow queer Americana singer-songwriter Wow, that’s so lovely. Thank you. That means a lot Allison Russell. “I wouldn’t say it’s as traditionally to me. It doesn’t escape me because I was also in line with the rest of my albums,” he tells me. “I one of those fans. I, like a ton of queer people, would say it’s more conceptual just based on the grew up loving country music and relating to all collaborative nature of it.” sorts of country, both male and female, usually Openly and unapologetically gay, Peck released especially females, to be honest. So it feels his first album in 2019, the self-produced “Pony.” amazing because I am also one of those fans Since then, he has steadily risen to prominence that grew up loving country and longed to see as one of the few modern trailblazing artists someone like me or someone sort of like me, even redefining country music — challenging the old close to like me, making the music that I love.

queer kids. I was really incredibly fortunate to just So getting to do this song with Willie: I can’t have parents that wanted to encourage that side understate how important and full circle it is for of me. I also grew up with this ambition to just not just me as a person to know that Willie Nelson let anybody tell me I can’t do something for any is on this track doing this song with me. It’s reason. And so when someone excludes me, it really affirming and really validating for me, and makes me want to include myself even more and I imagine a lot of people, which is cool. But kick the door down and then sit at the table and it’s funny because I always say country music put my feet up on the table. That was instilled in appeals to gay and queer people because it’s me so strongly as a kid by my parents. We grew up about storytelling, yearning, loss and unrequited in South Africa during apartheid. I’m from a mixedlove. All the classic country songs I can think of, I race family. I saw firsthand the treatment of people always say they feel like the queer experience to for being different. And I think my parents just me. It doesn’t surprise me whatsoever that queer really wanted to instill in us that nothing makes people are drawn to country music. anybody less than someone else.

And then, of course, you mix in the campy It seems every decade or so, we go through flamboyance of someone like Dolly. a redefining of country music. Where do you think we’re at now with the genre?

Exactly. Put rhinestones on it and it’s like, fuck, it’s over.

I think we are at a place in the genre that’s so exciting because there’s sort of a reclaiming And speaking of your collaboration with Willie happening. Because the truth is anybody should — it’s also such a powerful nod to straight male feel welcome to be a part of country as a culture allyship. and as a genre because the fact is it’s literally just built off of so many different inspirations and Totally. This term “ally” gets used a lot these cultures to begin with. Country music, just in the days. In the climate of the world right now, where instrumentation alone, is African, Hawaiian and queer people, trans people and drag queens are European. It was built when America was in its so villainized and under actual serious threats of early days of being this huge melting pot. violence to their lives, it’s not good enough just to be accepting or friends with a gay person. I So I think what we’re learning and realizing as a don’t think that’s enough. Real allyship in times society now is, oh, wait, I don’t have to be a white like these [is] standing next to us with absolutely straight person that lives in the South in order no ambiguity and essentially saying, “We are here to be a part of this culture. This can also be my right next to you and we support you.” And that’s culture, and I can make it my culture, and I can exactly what Willie did by doing this video and be a part of it. I think it’s really cool that so many song. artists are claiming their place in it because it is truly the most diverse American genre, and it is What is the impact that you hope this for everybody. It should represent how diverse its collaboration has? roots are. It should be representative in how the genre looks today. And I think it’s finally catching I’ve always grown up with a lot of straight guys as up. my friends, because I used to skateboard and play in punk bands and all that stuff. All I had around You’ve said the masks you wear as shields allow me were straight boys. They were always just my you to feel more comfortable to be vulnerable buddies. And so I’ve seen that kind of allyship as an artist. Since we’re seeing more of your in my personal life since I was quite young, face now, does that mean you’re feeling a little which is fantastic. But I’ve also seen this sort of safer to be more musically vulnerable these performative allyship where it’s like, “Well, yes, of days? course, being accepting of queer people, that’s the bare minimum. That should just be. People I do. I made the mask at a time for several reasons. should be accepting of everyone.” That isn’t I think it was partly something kind of artistic and allyship. Allyship is being vocally in support and bold that I wanted to do and wanted to see within standing next to us, especially in a time like now, country that I hadn’t seen before. I wanted there to when we need it so much. be like a David Bowie of country kind of vibe and make something artistic. And then I think it also Given that we’ve only recently seen more inadvertently protected me and my anonymity openly LGBTQ+ artists in country music, who and started to ease my transition into success gave you the courage to step up and decide because I’m not someone naturally built for that to make a place for yourself within the genre? transition. I think I would’ve gone crazy if I didn’t have that buffer. It was really helpful for me on a I really attribute that to my parents and my personal level. Also, yeah, I started to realize that family. I never really had to come out because I it allowed me to be more vulnerable as an artist think my parents always sort of knew. I have two and share my stories. It just gave me a little bit of older brothers who are both straight, and I think confidence. my parents always knew that I had a little sugar in my tank. They always made a really adamant But it’s funny, with each album I’ve been building effort to let me know that I was no different than so much more confidence of my own, and the anybody and that I could do whatever I wanted to mask has felt less and less important to me, even do and I can be whoever I wanted to be. Because though I will always be grateful to it and love it I think that they knew and could see that that was and love all the iterations of it. But I think in my something that was not encouraged in a lot of personal and artistic journey to authenticity and

the most vulnerability and the most openness, the people. What do you hope the message is for mask has to represent that. As I evolve, I think that a young boy in rural America who dreams of has to evolve as well. being like you one day?

When you first decided that you were going to That you already are loved and there are people wear the mask, did you foresee a day in which out there that are not members of our community the mask might become a topic of conversation that will love you for exactly who you are. The on social media among very thirsty queer and coolest thing about it being Willie Nelson, not gay men? only is he one of my idols, but there isn’t a single country music fan that doesn’t like Willie Nelson.

[Laughs.] No. All I ever wanted to do was just make He’s such an icon and such a legend, and so for one album, which I did practically completely him, more than all of these other people, to stand alone and with $300 in my pocket. So every single up and do this, I think it can give people a lot of thing that’s ever happened since I put out “Pony” comfort and reassurance that there are people out has been sort of a surprise and a lovely cherry on there that stand with us and are with us. top for me. So no, I’ve never envisioned most of the things that have happened in my career.

Something I never anticipated is, I guess, being an inspiration to, well, anyone, really. And so now For the tour, have you already started the that that has become the case, I take it really process of deciding which masks you’ll pack? seriously, actually. It’s been a really beautiful gift Is that a torturous process? to me to be able to hear the stories from people of just their experiences and how my music maybe Yep. It’s always a very specific discussion with my has affected them or encouraged them. It’s kind stylist. There’s a new design, obviously, so it’s an of become the most beautiful and important part exciting time because we get to see what we come of my career — just feeling the impact that it has up with color-wise and to match all my different on people. So if that gets to be broadened and outfits. Just on styling in general, unfortunately, helps someone maybe in a situation where they I’ve kind of screwed myself because we killed all feel they’re excluded, that’s everything to me. I my styling so early on because my stylist is so think that’s really important. amazing, and so every single time I have to do something, we’re like, “Fuck, how are we going to top what we’ve already done?” So there’s a whole archival museum of all the outfits I’ve ever worn and we have to look at those and make sure we’re not repeating anything. It’s a whole process.

Given that some of your shows are happening during Pride season, are you planning on doing anything special for Pride at these shows or is an Orville Peck show just basically a Pride festival?

[Laughs.] Yes, exactly. It kind of goes both ways in the sense that I think my show is already filled with pride and a lot of queer joy. Whether it’s a Pride show or not, I go up there and my main focus is just to be myself, to connect with the audience and to tell my stories.

How did you arrive at the name “Stampede” for the tour and the album?

Well, I always want to keep it horse-y with my album titles. There’s a little bit of a theme in my album titles, obviously. Even since the last album, I was thinking, “Well, what could I call it that’s still in keeping with my tradition with what I name my albums?” And then as I started to look at just all the different artists that are on this album, I was Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride like, “I know exactly what this is. It’s a stampede.” Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed My vote for “Stampede Vol. 2” is for a Dolly a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl duet, and also one with k.d. lang.

Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Oh, I love k.d. Some of the original queer country GQ and Billboard. Reach him via Twitter that a lot of people don’t even really realize. She @chrisazzopardi. was a real trailblazer. “Trail of Broken Hearts” is an amazing song.

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Atlanta Ice Cream Festival Date: July 27, 2024 Location: Piedmont Park at Charles Allen Dr. Beat the summer heat at the Atlanta Ice Cream Festival, where you can indulge in a variety of ice cream flavors and other sweet treats. This familyfriendly event also includes health and wellness activities, live entertainment, and contests. Learn more at atlantaicecreamfestival.com.

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