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Queer Country Band Indiana Queen Returns With A Beautiful Visual Album

Queer Country Band Indiana Queen Returns With A Beautiful Visual Album

Alternative country, queer, rock band Indiana Queen has followed in the footsteps of Queen B, and released a visual album.

“[Fans] have always appreciated the visual imagery of our music videos,” singer Kevin Thornton told Get Out. “This time around, I wanted to take the visuals as far as I could. I decided to present the entire album as a film.”

“This is How it Goes”—one of the album’s standout tracks—tells the story of growing up gay in a religious town and falling in love with another boy from church.

“There was a lot of repressed sexual tension between us. We were so afraid,” said Thornton of his real-life paramour, who’s now married to a woman. “The song is about looking back, remembering him, and wondering if he made it out of that hell like I did.”

The country music scene is traditionally, and historically, a conservative genre of music. Within the last few years however, a few artists have emerged as gay country music artists. Stars like Billy Gillman, that adorable little boy who emerged on the country scene at age 11 in 2000 with his single One Voice and recently resurrected himself back into the public eye on The Voice, Chely Wright, and 90’s country star Ty Herndon have come out it big ways, making the industry look at the LGBT community.

In 2014, Kasey Musgraves’ song Follow Your Arrow, which was written by two gay songwriters, and touches on loving whoever you want and forgetting the “straight” arrow, won song of the year at the CMA Awards.  The hit show Nashville, even features a gay character trying to make it in the industry. And we can’t forget about Steve Grand who released his song All-American Boy in 2013. Basically, LGBT people and ideas are emerging all over the scene, and the industry is changing with it.

It’s something that Indiana Queen, a Nashville alt country band, wants to be a part of. Fronted by openly queer Kevin Thornton, the band is trying to change opinions in the country music scene, but they aren’t tiptoeing around the subject. In true queer form, they are hitting the industry with unapologetically queer music and a sexy, skin filled music videos.

“We are starting to get lots of messages,” he told NewNowNext. “Gay people, out there telling us how much it means to them to see themselves represented in country music.”

Watch the stunning visual album Summon Without Sorrow in its entirety below.

 

Summon Without Sorrow from Kevin thornton on Vimeo.

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