It is almost a year since another piece of country music history was made. On the second of September 2010 Multi Award winning duo Brooks and Dunn (Kix and Ronnie) decided after twenty years at the top of the hitmakers ladder that they would quit their duo association and revert back to their solo interests. [...]
Beadle’s About – The First Series
The King of the Practical Joke Jeremy Beadle died at the tragically young age of 59 in 2008. He had been off our screens for a number of years before that when his show “Beadle’s About” finished in 1996. The critics had pronounced that he was ‘old fashioned’ and that his humour with this [...]
The American Connection Country Music Show
It hardly seems a month since I made the free draw from our American Connection Facebook page…but on todays show I’ll be doing it once again and if you’ve joined our Facebook page it could be you that wins a double CD from Randy Travis. Our Album of the Week comes from a new releases [...]
Doing Time For Patsy Cline
A brand new DVD release from Crabtree Films sees Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto and Matt Day in the lead roles of ‘Doing Time For Patsy Cline’.In an interesting twist on a young hopeful travelling to Nashville to make it in country music we have our hero being an ‘innocent’ Australian country boy who makes it [...]
O Brother Where Art Thou
It’s hard to believe that it is a decade since one of the most unlikely successes in music history was released. Anyone who saw the movie ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’ will not only remember a great piece of film making but also the brilliant soundtrack that complimented it. The soundtrack from the movie went [...]
Dianne Schuur -The Gathering
Blind singer Diane Schuur has made nineteen albums in a career in which her voice has become a byword for polish and poise in the jazz idiom. Possessed of a voice of great intimacy and range she has repeatedly made her own jazz standards over more than thirty years.A fact recognized with her two Grammy [...]
The American Connection Country Show
There’s a warm invitation to join me for ninety minutes of great music from Nashville Tennessee on todays show. As usual I’ll be taking a look at the top three best selling singles today and giving you a taster, our album of the week features Blake Shelton and I’ll be playing three tracks from his [...]
Blake Shelton-Red River Blue
It’s amazing to think that it it was ten year ago that we were introduced to the country sounds of Blake Shelton. In 2001 he made his debut on the charts with a single entitled ‘Austin’ off his self titled album. That single gave him status as a number one hitmaker when it stayed on [...]