Chris Willman Music WriterWhen contemporary Nashville artists and songwriters talk about perfect modern country songs, many of them wind up circling around one in particular: the Miranda Lambert-sung “The House That Built Me.” The co-writer of that and other classics over the last few decades, Tom Douglas, is the narrator and subject of a film, “Love, Tom,” just announced as coming out exclusively via the Paramount Plus streaming service on Feb.
24.A trailer for the project has the world-class songwriter appearing in a variety of Nashville locales, including the Ryman Auditorium, the Shelby Street Bridge downtown, a truck and a front porch, as he offers narration derived from a well-remembered, inspirational acceptance speech he gave upon being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Monument Records will release a 10-track companion album of the same name, for which Douglas will be joined by some of the country artists he’s written for and/or with, including Lambert, Tim McGraw (“Grown Men Don’t Cry,” “Southern Voice”), Lady A (“I Run to You”), Chris Janson and Collin Raye (“Little Rock”).The film’s production partners include Sandbox Productions — headed up by Nashville uber-manager and Monument label head Jason Owen , who’s one of the executive producers — and Sony Music Entertainment’s Premium Content Division.
It’s directed by Irish filmmaker Michael Lennox, who was nominated for an Oscar and has won a BAFTA award for his short films.Douglas’ script, like the acceptance speech from the Songwriters Hall it’s rooted in, incorporates the text of a letter he wrote to a Nashville aspirant years ago. “People have often asked me about the creative process,” Douglas says in the trailer. “I received a.
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