Lindsay Lou wants you to know something about bluegrass. Those classic songs you’ve heard a thousand times? A lot of them were written by women.

Her new album, Bluegrass Women, out August 14th, shines a light on the genre’s overlooked female songwriters. The tracklist reads like a greatest hits collection, except every song was penned by a woman. “Some of these songs I sang for many years before realizing they were penned by a wife/mother/female artist,” Lou says.

The first single, “All I Ever Loved Was You,” was written by Dorothy Skaggs, mother of Ricky Skaggs. Lou remembers hearing Ricky and Keith Whitley sing it in Ralph Stanley’s band. “The harmonies and the tenderness of it blew me away.”

Lou recruited some of bluegrass’s finest for the project. Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, Laurie Lewis, and Alison Brown all appear on the record. They’re not just the best female pickers around, they’re GRAMMY winners and IBMA Award winners at the top of the field, period.

A four-part mini documentary about the making of the album drops soon. Lou also makes her Grand Ole Opry debut July 31st.

This matters because representation shapes who feels welcome in a genre. Lou’s proving women have always belonged in bluegrass.