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the HARD PATH Country music star Rissi Palmer finds success in a genre that hasn’t always been welcoming by DAVID MENCONI photography by SAMANTHA EVERETTE
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issi Palmer wasn’t actually present for her most recent high-profile exposure. It came at the November 11 CMA Awards telecast on
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ABC, while rising country star Maren Morris was accepting her award for Female Vocalist of the Year. At the podium, Morris gave a shout-out to a half-dozen Black female Americana acts
— Palmer and fellow North Carolinian Rhiannon Giddens among them — for making “this genre so, so beautiful. I hope you know that we see you.” As it happened, Palmer was in the
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