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Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles join Kyle Meredith to talk about The Bondsman, Prime Video’s new supernatural dramedy where Bacon plays a dead bounty hunter who gets resurrected to do the devil’s bidding. It’s a Blumhouse show, so expect a dash of horror, a dollop of weird, and a good amount of twang. Nettles, best known as half of Sugarland and her role in The Righteous Gemstones, finally plays a musician on-screen — something she’s avoided until now for fear of being accused of, well, playing herself. Listen to the episode above or wherever you get your podcasts.
The duo also wrote and recorded an actual album, To Hell and Back, in character. Some songs made it into the show, others were “politely rejected,” but they liked most of the tracks enough to cut a full-length anyway. The result: a concept album born from method acting and acoustic guitars, complete with a Johnny-and-June-but-make-it-haunted vibe.
Bacon and Nettles talk about the awkward charm of writing songs via voice memo ping-pong, the joys of channeling trauma into duets, and how most actors aren’t writing character-based albums because, frankly, they can’t. Bacon credits Nettles’ songwriting chops. Nettles calls Bacon a great lyricist. Somewhere in the middle, they form a spooky Americana dream team you didn’t know you needed.
Listen to Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles talk about The Bondsman: To Hell and Back and more in the new episode above or by watching the video below. Keep up on all the latest episodes by following Kyle Meredith With… on your favorite podcast platform; plus, check out all the series on the Consequence Podcast Network.
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