It's the ultimate experience for country music fans. Each summer in Nashville, Tennessee, the Country Music Awards Festival celebrates the genre with four jam-packed days of concerts featuring artists like Carrie Underwood and Scotty McCreery.
CBN Reporter Angela Zatopek explored various aspects of the festival, talking to several country music legends about their faith and music.
Jet Williams, daughter of the late Hank Williams, spoke with CBN about the influence her father had on the country music industry overall. She said her dad was belting out gospel songs from a young age, when his mother would play the piano.
Williams also won a Pulitzer Prize for transforming country music. His daughter said that any musician from Bob Dillon to Bruce Springsteen would say that Hank Williams would have influenced their careers as musicians.
CBN News also spoke with a younger upcoming legend, Scotty McCreery. The tenth season winner from "American Idol" says that faith is the biggest part of his life, and is something that he incorporates into his music.
"I try to have at least one faith-based song on my record," McCreery said, adding that Philippians 4:13 is his "go to verse."
Songwriter and musician Brett James also incorporates faith into music he develops. He wrote the song, "Something in the Water" with Carrie Underwood, noting the song really came from Underwood and was "a beautiful and spiritual thing" to write.
Underwood and her husband have also been known to talk about their faith in interviews like this one.
More information on the festival can be found here.
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