Country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country examines the genre's past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists claiming space in Nashville, and transforming country music in the process.
Direction
Kissi's visual love letter to Black Southern joy
Production
Intimate performance spaces that feel like church
Writing
Artists telling their own stories, no narrators needed
Director
Joshua Kissi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The banjo's West African origins trace back to the akonting and ngoni instruments, brought by enslaved people—country's 'whitewashing' erased this for decades.
Many artists featured were recording their breakthrough albums during filming; Russell's 'Outside Child' would go on to dominate 2021's best-of lists.
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