Kevin Bacon covers Beyoncé

Is Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” a country song?

Of course it is. The single from the forthcoming “Renaissance, Act II” is loaded with the kind of country tropes that defines the genre.

It saddles up with a cowboy hat on and drinks “rugged whiskey” at an “all night hoedown” while emphasizing the banjo of Rhiannon Giddens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning folk-country artist who has been focused on the hidden history of Black country music, going back to her beginnings with the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

In fact, in terms of semiotic signifiers, “Texas Hold ‘Em” — the work of a real life Texan, who grew up in Houston, which she refers to as “my city” in the song — is a great deal more “country” than much of the slick, warmed-over pop that populates the country charts.

Now, the Philly-born actor and musician Kevin Bacon has weighed into the debate, musically speaking.

Followers of the “Diner” and “Footloose” star’s Instagram feed know that he often posts videos of him playing music while hanging out with the barnyard animals on the Connecticut farm he shares with his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick.

On Monday, the latest edition in the series caught Bacon and Sedgwick mingling with their ponies and pigs and covering “Texas Hold ‘Em,” in a countrified version: Bacon plays mandolin and Sedgwick interjects the excitement with energetic cries of “Hoo!”