Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country went nearly 50 years between albums, but he’s never abandoned his fight for social progress. | t_annie_howard
), and you won’t just hear his empathetic, witty, outspoken country tunes—you’ll also be regaled with his tales of cutting sugarcane in Castro’s Cuba or “being the first person kicked out of the Peace Corps for sucking dick.
My interview with Haggerty covers lots of ground: the gift of making a new album nearly a half century after his debut, the contradictions of being held up as a queer icon, and the desire to keep fighting for social change. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.Annie Howard: It’s now been 49 years since you released, making this perhaps the longest gap between two records from one artist.
I don’t know if I would select it as the best song that I’ve ever written, but a lot of people have told me that it is, and it is a beautiful song. We knew we were gonna do one older song to kind of tie the two together, and we also put “Blackberry Rose and Other Songs & Sorrows From Lavender Country” on the cover, because we know the name still has some truck. The new rendition is a more modern, classic Nashville country-pop sound, and a lot of people like it better, but not me.
When I said I don’t need fans, I need comrades, that was something that is literally true, and I don’t aspire to be a country music star. I aspire to be a queer Marxist change agent, and that’s how I live my life. I didn’t maketo be a notable country music star. That was absurd at the time, right? I didn’t have any aspirations of being a country music notable—I made it to foment social change. That’s what it’s worth, and that’s the core of why I do it.
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