Up-and-coming nation musicians may have an opportunity to indicate off their abilities to a few of the style’s greatest stars in Kacey Musgraves and Reese Witherspoon’s upcoming Apple TV+ music competitors sequence My Sort of Nation. Premiering on March 24, the sequence recruits Jimmie Allen, Mickey Guyton, and Orville Peck as expertise scouts on the hunt for nation music’s subsequent massive star.
Flipping the standard music competitors format on its head, My Sort of Nation is a play on the Voice‘s judge-based method with out the auditions or turning chairs. Allen, Guyton, and Peck will likely be tasked with whipping up a roster of rising nation artists from world wide to whisk away to Nashville for a musical showcase.
“The fantastic thing about nation music is that it could possibly sound like so many various issues and have so many various influences,” Guyton wrote on Instagram. “I’ve a ardour for sharing and discovering new voices.”
Partnering with Apple Music, the sequence govt produced by Musgraves and Witherspoon will provide its winner direct editorial help from the streaming big. In an Instagram story put up, Musgraves described My Sort of Nation as being based mostly on “a dialog we had years in the past about wanting to go looking the globe to search out nation stars of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and factors of view.”
Adam Blackstone, who has labored on every little thing from excursions with Justin Timberlake and Rihanna to the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present and the Grammy Awards, will function music director. In a current interview with Rolling Stone, Blackstone gushed about his love for pop music, which has functioned as a vital software in his genre-spanning work historical past.
“Once I say pop, I imply common. So whether or not that’s jazz, whether or not that’s Christian music, whether or not that’s nation, my love for music has no style or boundaries,” he mentioned. “I like working with Justin Timberlake simply as a lot as I like working with Jimmy Allen. I like working with Usher simply as a lot as I like working with Tim McGraw and Chris Stapleton.”
He added: “It fulfills me very equally to know that there’s an viewers on the market that’s affected and touched by the preparations and the way I current their favourite songs to them.”