The song appears on his forthcoming new album
Kickstarting a bold creative era, critically acclaimed rising country star Sam Williams unveils the new song “American Actress” available now via Mercury Nashville. The latest track heralds the arrival of his exciting new project, Act I: Scarlet Lonesome, coming this summer with more details to follow.
Williams’ emotionally charged delivery over a lightly strummed acoustic guitar makes the track feel like a familiar classic country song. The evocative lyrics paint a picture worthy of the big screen as our protagonist wonders aloud, “Who was I when we first started? And who the hell am I now?” You can practically hear the song’s doomed romance fraying in his simultaneously heartfelt and hard-hitting vocals.
“We all have several stories. We have the one we used to believe, the one we’re in, the one we tell ourselves, and the one we escape to,” Williams shares of the new song. “Shakespeare said, ‘The world is a stage and everyone’s an actor,’ and I think that’s true. Especially when in love, we morph and change ourselves to be liked, to be loved. I think this song has the honesty of my ill-fated loves and the dark allure of a tragic ending. My heartache doesn’t always sound like your general country song sound; it has a bittersweet and painful swing that takes me back.”
Next up, Williams graces the Good Molecules Reverb Stage at CMA Fest on June 6th in Nashville followed by a performance at the UMG Nashville Takeover at Skydeck on Fifth and Broadway the next day June 7th. He then closes the weekend with an intimate performance at Ole Red that Sunday, June 9th. These appearances come on the heels of his show-stopping set at the ACM Awards Official After Party earlier this month.
Last month, he notably unveiled “Carnival Heart” as the official anthem for the new innovative country-themed show, Songblazers: A Journey Into Country Music, produced and presented by Cirque du Soleil and Universal Music Group Nashville. Written and directed by Amy Tinkham, Songblazers opens in Nashville this July with seven additional cities following the launch.
