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Mandy Moore on Playing ’60s Nashville Hero Sue Brewer in Audible Original Podcast ‘The Boar’s Nest’: ‘Such an Important Story’
Mandy Moore On Playing UnsungNashville Hero Sue Brewer in Audible Originals Podcast, 'The Boar's Nest':
Though the artists already knew each other, in the mid-‘60s, Brewer gave them a safe haven in her Nashville living room, dubbed the Boar’s Nest, to create music and form lifelong friendships. The Outlaw movement, which also included artists like David Allan Coe, hit its stride in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with the music taking on a rougher edge than the overtly commercial, polished, smooth sounds coming out of Nashville. In a town that famously doesn’t give credit to the women who are midwives and catalysts for legends who will break the rules, Dub wanted to make sure the single mother who worked two and three jobs was celebrated for the massive contribution she made to Outlaw Country.
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