Mickey Guyton, Jimmie Allen and Other Black Country Artists Set for Amazon Music Doc, ‘For Love & Country’
variety.comChris Willman Music WriterThe state of the art for emerging Black performers in country music will be the subject of a feature-length documentary that has been produced by Amazon Music, titled “For Love & Country,” which was announced Tuesday morning as having a premiere date set for the music streaming service and Prime Video on April 7.The arrival of the film will be preceded by Amazon Original recordings by some of the documentary’s featured artists, starting with a new acoustic rendering by Amythyst Kiah of her signature song, “Black Myself,” that’s out today.Although the announcement of the doc does not include “Americana,” the lineup of artists featured in interviews and performances in the film includes about equal measures of singer-songwriters who are up-and-coming in mainstream country and those are are generally considered part of the alternative-roots or Americana realm.
Mickey Guyton, who recently performed the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, is featured, as is Jimmie Allen, who has become one of the leading men of country with three of his singles becoming No.
1 country airplay hits over the last few years. Other mainstream artists in the film include Breland, Blanco Brown, Shy Carter and Reyna Roberts.
The Americana side is represented by a pair of artists who are currently up for Grammys in the roots categories, Allison Russell and Valerie June, along with Kiah.
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