If you want to know the heart and soul of America, listen to its songs. And few genres of song tell our stories more vividly than country music, that unique style born of folk and gospel and blues and rooted in the soil of Middle America. Love, work, family, heartache, infidelity, addiction—like it or not, this is the stuff of our lives. So when
Ted Swindley—the creator of
Always … Patsy Cline—decided to write a “jukebox” musical using only country songs, he was able to let the lyrics of the songs provide much of the internal narrative.
Honky Tonk Angels, which opens July 8
at the American Heartland Theatre, follows three very different southern women as they travel to Nashville to make their mark as country singers.
more at The Independent
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