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\n\tA decade ago this month, the 50th CMA Awards<\/a> booked one of the most talked about, and arguably one of the most powerful, performances in the history of broadcast<\/a>. Alongside a New Orleans second-line style band, Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> joined the Chicks<\/a> for a rendition of her track \u201cDaddy Lessons\u201d \u2014 which featured an interpolation of the country trio\u2019s \u201cLong Time Gone\u201d \u2014 off her masterpiece Lemonade<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tTen years later, the performance\u2019s impact still reverberates, and so does the impression that the country music<\/a> industry left on Beyonc\u00e9, the most awarded musician in Grammy history.<\/p>\n \n\tIt was an electric performance for many overt reasons, but especially for two stories happening behind the scenes: \u201cDaddy Lessons\u201d was about to be deemed ineligible<\/a> for contention in the country categories at the Grammy Awards by the Recording Academy; and the Chicks hadn\u2019t appeared on the CMA broadcast since they were expunged from the country music industry<\/a> in 2003. With the banjo and fiddle on high and the foursome hard stamping their Lone Star roots with proclamations of \u201cTexas!\u201d the collab should have screamed \u201ccountry\u201d to anyone watching. Instead, it resulted in a sour experience that led to Beyonc\u00e9 making Act II: Cowboy Carter<\/a><\/em>, her exploration and reclaiming of American roots traditions.<\/p>\n \n\tMuch was made of how Beyonc\u00e9 introduced that now Grammy-winning body of work: posting on Instagram<\/a> that Cowboy Carter<\/em> \u201cain\u2019t a Country album. This is a \u2018Beyonc\u00e9\u2019 album.\u201d But why would she claim a genre that wouldn\u2019t claim her?<\/p>\n \n