When up to date Nashville artists and songwriters speak about excellent fashionable nation songs, a lot of them wind up circling round one specifically: the Miranda Lambert-sung “The Home That Constructed Me.” The co-writer of that and different classics over the previous couple of a long time, Tom Douglas, is the narrator and topic of a movie, “Love, Tom,” simply introduced as popping out solely through the Paramount Plus streaming service on Feb. 24.
A trailer for the undertaking has the world-class songwriter showing in a wide range of Nashville locales, together with the Ryman Auditorium, the Shelby Road Bridge downtown, a truck and a entrance porch, as he affords narration derived from a well-remembered, inspirational acceptance speech he gave upon being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2014.
Monument Information will launch a 10-track companion album of the identical identify, for which Douglas shall be joined by a few of the nation artists he’s written for and/or with, together with Lambert, Tim McGraw (“Grown Males Don’t Cry,” “Southern Voice”), Woman A (“I Run to You”), Chris Janson and Collin Raye (“Little Rock”).
The movie’s manufacturing companions embrace Sandbox Productions — headed up by Nashville uber-manager and Monument label head Jason Owen , who’s one of many govt producers — and Sony Music Leisure’s Premium Content material Division. It’s directed by Irish filmmaker Michael Lennox, who was nominated for an Oscar and has gained a BAFTA award for his brief movies.
Douglas’ script, just like the acceptance speech from the Songwriters Corridor it’s rooted in, incorporates the textual content of a letter he wrote to a Nashville aspirant years in the past. “Individuals have usually requested me concerning the artistic course of,” Douglas says within the trailer. “I obtained a letter from a determined younger songwriter asking for recommendation. I did what any good songwriter does: I wrote him again… ‘Expensive buddy, you ask me why the hell am I right here? All of us received right here the identical approach, i suppose —we adopted the tune… We’ve got a present and with it comes an immense accountability. Mine is known as a story of failure. I wished to surrender, however I can’t surrender on one thing that I really like. You’ll be able to’t both,” he says.
A previous Oscar contender in addition to Grammy nominee, Douglas has additionally written for Luke Bryan, Keith City, Pink, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Florida Georgia Line and Kane Brown, amongst many others.
In a press release, Douglas described the movie as “a letter of hope to a determined world. Sure, it’s a movie about songwriting and the artistic course of, however actually, it’s a movie for anxiousness addicts, underdogs, underachievers, true believers, never-say-die-ers, carry on try-ers, the broken-hearted (and) can’t-get-started, optimistic pessimists.” Referencing one other govt producer, Austin Fish, and co-writer/co-producer Tommy Douglas, he added, “Austin, Michael, Tommy and I are deeply grateful to Paramount Plus, Jason Owen, Sandbox, and Sony Music Leisure for occurring this journey with us.”
Bart Herbison, left, stands with Jeffrey Steele, Jaren Johnson, Tom Douglas and Lee Thomas Miller at The Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony on the Music Metropolis Heart on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (Picture by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
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