Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Classic female country artists like Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Faith Hill, along with modern-day musicians like Kasey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood, and Shania Twain are pioneers of the genre.  Despite their influence and hand in elevating country music to the heights it’s reached in the modern era, only 10% of country music airplay and awards are granted to women.  This is one of the astonishing facts in Tami Neilson’s latest show ‘The F Word’, which combines music with the research of musicology professor Dr Jada Watson.  The two first met on Twitter, both very vocal about challenging inequality in the country music industry.  “I followed her because she wrote, you know, these incredible articles," Neilson told Francesca Rudkin.  “What I loved about her work was that for an artist, she was kind of giving us the tools to feel validated I guess, you know, vindicated.”  Neilson says she wanted to tell the story of women in country music through song, backing it wit