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Country music hitmaker Shane McAnally has recorded some of the most memorable songs of the decade and has written hits for some of the biggest artists in music — including Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, whose recent 62^nd GRAMMY® Awards recital consisted of a duet he co-wrote.

But McAnally’s prolonged journey to stardom and coming out as a gay man is a quite a story — one that he recently opened up about during a candid conversation with actress, producer, and player Rita Wilson. Don&#;t yearn the newest episode of Wilson’s exclusive show, The Spark, on SiriusXM&#;s VOLUME (Ch. ) to catch McAnally reflect on his road to Nashville glory, his songwriting process, his upcoming album, and more.

From alt-country to folk to dead-center mainstream country music, the genre features an ever-growing list of artists who identify as LGBTQ+ &#x; and incorporate their perspective into their songs.

The presence of country artists who identify as queer is far from a fresh phenomenon. Songs sung from this perspective arguably dine back to the tardy s, when a band called the Sweet Violet Boys (also known as the Prairie Ramblers) released "I Love My Fruit," one of the earliest instances of a tune thought to be about being gay. According to the BBC, a s country artist named Wilma Burgess is believed to be the genre's first openly gay star, charting 15 hits on the Billboard Country & Western charts between and In the late '70s, she left the music industry and opened up Nashville's first lesbian bar, the Hitching Post.

Lavender Country, led by its frontman Patrick Haggerty, is one of the best-known pioneers of Diverse country, and Haggerty remained a passionate anti-racism and gay rights activist until his death in His music continues to be a groundbreaking force for openly same-sex attracted country artists,

Sam Hunt Says These Are the 3 Best Entertainers in Country Music [Exclusive]

Sam Hunt has opinions on the best modern entertainers in country music.

During a recent chat with Taste of Land Nights, the "Country House" singer tried to constricted his picks of the best live entertainer down to just one person, but he couldn't acquire there.

So, he named three.

"Back in the day, I always thought Chris Janson put on a excellent show, he's such a character," Hunt says.

"Luke Bryan has a natural way about him up there on stage," he continues. "But then you got somebody like a Stapleton who just stands there and captivates you with his voice and his musicianship."

If you go in order of who Track listed, his Mount Rushmore of live country tune performers would be:

1. Chris Janson
2. Luke Bryan
3. Chris Stapleton

But Mount Rushmore has a fourth position &#x; would he put his own mug up there?

"I feel like an amateur a lot of times watching these guys, or less of a organic, which is true when watching a lot of these guys," he admits.

Sam Hunt is humble &#x; he would not specify himself as one of the best live entertainers

Country Artists Who Have Reach Out as Gay [PICTURES]

Ty Herndon and Billy Gilman made headlines in November by revealing they were gay within hours of each other but they weren't the first region artists to make such an announcement, nor the last.

From Chely Wright -- the first well-known nation star to come out, in -- to songwriter Shane McAnally, there own been a few others helping pave the way in the country song industry. On Feb. 3, Brothers Osborne member TJ Osborne came out publicly, in a feature in Time. That makes him one of the very few out country artists signed to a major or large independent write down label, along with Brooke Eden, who recently got engaged to her longtime girlfriend, Hilary Hoover.

"I need to get to the height of my career being completely who I am," says the singer, who's now released three major-label albums with his brother John. "I imply, I am who I am, but I've kept a part of me muted, and it's been stifling."

Click through the gallery below to learn more about country's LGBTQ+ artists:

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