Mandy Moore will star in a new Audible series that tells the story of Sue Brewer, an unsung hero whose Nashville home served as a creative incubator for outlaw country musicians like Willie Nelson
The scripted podcast is titled The Boar’s Nest: Sue Brewer and the Birth of Outlaw Country Music, after the nickname for Brewer's living room floor. According to a press release from Audible.
The Boar's Nest" became the epicenter of the country music scene in 1960s Nashville and helped launch the careers of Nelson, Jennings, Shel Silverstein, and Kris Kristofferson.
The Boar's Nest "served as a raucous but nurturing creative hotbed for artistic outsiders on the road to becoming legends," according to Audible.
Brewer shaped the sound and soul of country music as we know it today, despite never picking up an instrument herself."
Make me hurt," she would instruct the budding country stars who jammed in her living room. Now isn't that the mark of a soul-altering song?
Each episode of The Boar's Nest will focus on one famous songwriting session and include new recordings of country classics, with the goal of letting us in on the creative process.
The beauty of telling this story in audio is that listeners will find themselves completely immersed in the heart of the Nashville music scene at such an exciting time in its history.
Other cast members include Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as Silverstein, W. Earl Brown (Deadwood) as Jennings, Stephen Louis Grush (Night Sky) as Nelson, John Hoogenakker (Dopesick)