Premiere Photos From Amazon Music’s For Love & Country
Last night, Monday, April 4, Amazon Music premiered the new original documentary For Love & Country at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. The film, set to release this Thursday, April 7, is directed by acclaimed director and photographer Joshua Kissi and will be available to stream on Amazon Music and Prime Video.
The film’s artists, crew, and Amazon Music executives gathered at the Hall of Fame’s Ford Theater to celebrate the upcoming release of this impactful film. In advance of the screening, there was a panel discussion featuring director Joshua Kissi, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, Blanco Brown, Shy Carter, Brittney Spencer, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Frankie Staton, Willie Jones and Mike Floss who are all featured in For Love & Country. The panel was moderated by Nashville Country Music Reporter at the Tennessean, Marcus Dowling.
For Love & Country is an exploration of the space between myth and reality of a genre, an industry, and a city. A new crop of Black artists are seeking to change the country’s long-held identity as music by-and-for white audiences. For Love & Country features interviews and performances from Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, Grammy-nominated artists Mickey Guyton, Jimmie Allen, Valerie June, Blanco Brown, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah, award-winning songwriter and 2021 Amazon Music Artist to Watch Shy Carter, 2022 Artists to Watch for Amazon Music Willie Jones and Reyna Roberts, rising star Brittney Spencer, and pianist and singer-songwriter Frankie Staton.
Local Nashville residents will also be featured, including journalist and New York Times bestselling author Andrea Williams, Davidson County criminal court clerk and former vice mayor Howard Gentry, academic and author Amanda Marie Martínez, and rapper Mike Floss.
"This film is our collective story, in our own words,” said Brittney Spencer. “We’re all carving our own unique paths. We’ve all got our own dreams and challenges, and our own ways of navigating them. I hope when people see this film, they better understand the conversation of race in country music. I hope it humanizes the discussed issues and puts a crowd of Black, beautiful faces to a topic the public has heavily engaged & debated, particularly over the last two years. I’m happy to be a part and share my story."
