Color Me Country: A Celebration of Black Women Who Shaped Country Music (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781536230246)

Rissi Palmer is the host of the Apple Music Country show Color Me Country Radio. She describes her musical style as "Southern Soul" and has made numerous national appearances on Oprah & Friends, CNN, CBS Mornings, GMA, Entertainment Tonight, and FOX Soul's Book of Sean. She has also been featured in publications and news outlets including the Associated Press, Ebony, Essence, HuffPost, The New York Times, Newsweek, NPR's All Things Considered, People magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She has performed at the White House, New York's Lincoln Center, and the Grand Ole Opry and has toured extensively across the country, sharing stages with Taylor Swift, the Eagles, Chris Young, Charley Crockett, and many others.

Rhiannon Giddens is the author of Build a House, illustrated by Monica Mikai, and We Could Fly, illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu. A musician, singer, songwriter, illustrator, MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize winner, founding member of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and the artistic director at Silkroad, she has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for an additional six for her work as both a soloist and a collaborator. Her lifelong mission is to uplift people, particularly Black Americans, whose contributions to American musical history previously have been ignored or erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country's musical origins. Rhiannon Giddens lives in Limerick, Ireland.