‘A Love Letter to Country Music’: How Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Songblazers’ Highlights Country’s Decades-Spanning Influence

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UMG Nashville chair/CEO Cindy Mabe and artist Sam Williams discuss the Cirque du Soleil production Songblazers.

music has always had a flair for the theatrical, from performers decked out in bedazzled suits or attention-commanding gowns, and wielding glittering guitars, to the genre’s exquisitely detailed story songs.Jason Aldean Opens Up About His ACM Awards Toby Keith Tribute: 'I Just Didn't Want to Mess It Up'The production’s story arc centers on the journey of two characters, as they work to forge their own path to country music stardom.

“I write pretty autobiographically, and this was one thing that I felt, to make it as best as it could be, needed to really come from me,” Williams tells. “What is my story? I don’t think any of our lives are as pretty or as cookie-cutter as people may think on the outside. I wrote it at a time when I felt a ‘me against the world’ narrative that I get sometimes, but in a good way — I felt like I could do all things through a power that is bigger than me.

“I said, ‘Let me tell you why Sam is so special,’” she recalls, “because I do feel like he’s going to touch a different culture and a different group of people — not unlike what his father has done and what his grandfather has done, because they all did it uniquely. I first heard Sam’s music during the pandemic, when everything on the radio was a party, and about escapism from what was happening around the world. But he was doing his own thing.

Elsewhere, songs from across the eras of country music prominence are on display — such as Billy Ray Cyrus’s 1992 hit “Achy Breaky Heart,” as the soundtrack to a dance-filled honky-tonk scene.

 

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