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Here's who performed (and who got bumped) on the first night of the DNC

The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you the latest on the Democratic National Convention.

Celebrities and musicians often pop up at political conventions, and this week’s Democratic National Convention is no different. Though James Taylor’s performance was bumped for time, two musicians punctuated the event’s opening night with songs that helped hammer home the night’s themes.

Monday evening’s first celebrity musical guest, country singer Mickey Guyton, sang her 2021 song “All American” to a rousing response. The track, from Guyton’s debut album Remember Her Name, is a fairly straightforward, here’s-a-list-of-things-I-like country song — “We’re the stars in the Texas sky / And the jukebox vinyl / We’re the New York City lights / And a hotel bible” — that fit tidily into a night meant to project national and party-wide unity, as Guyton sang, “Ain’t we all all-American?”

Guyton, a four-time Grammy nominee, has been at the vanguard of a breakthrough for Black artists in country music — one that produced chart-topping country hits for both Beyoncé and Shaboozey in 2024.

WATCH: Mickey Guyton's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Later in the night, Guyton made way for another country-adjacent artist in Jason Isbell, an Alabama native who first made his name as a member of The Drive-By Truckers.

Clad in a sharp tuxedo — and making a point to shout out the convention’s Alabama delegation — Isbell sang the title track to his fifth solo album, 2015’s Something More Than Free. A song about striving for more than mere survival, the song expresses a willingness to put in necessary labor: “I don’t think on why I’m here or where it hurts / I’m just lucky to have the work,” he sang, adding, “Sunday

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