RS: Daddy Lessons is one of the best Country Songs OTY
Rolling Stone: Daddy Lessons is one of the best country songs of the year.
Beyonce and Dixie Chicks, "Daddy Lessons"
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On Beyoncé's epochal concept album Lemonade, "Daddy Lessons" stands as an odd acoustic change of pace – not exactly a throwaway, but an opportunity to catch one's breath. Leave it to Queen Bey, however, to recognize that song's grander potential. In one of 2016's boldest crossover moves, Beyoncé turned "Daddy Lessons" into a drumline hootenanny throwdown, performing it live at the 50th CMA Awards with an assist from her fellow Texans the Dixie Chicks (in a return to country's main stage after more than a decade in exile over Iraq War politics). Dressed up with banjos, blaring horns and country-blues harmonica, this "Daddy Lessons" remake – which Beyoncé and the Chicks also cut in the studio – is a great example of what can happen when worlds, however seemingly disparate, collide. D.M.