There’s news on today’s show of a special bumper Christmas giveaway by just becoming a member of the American Connection Facebook page. You could win albums from Lyle Lovett, Ben Kweller, Gretchen Peters, Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley and single releases from Toby Keith, Tift Merritt, Sean Wilson, Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson and Alison Moorer. [...]
Country to Country
On todays show there’s a chance for you to win tickets to see Lyle Lovett in concert when he appears at The Sage Gateshead as part of the forthcoming SummerTyne Americana on July 24th. There’s also a look at the ups and downs in the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and our Album Of The [...]
American Country Connections
It’s a busy, busy show today, crammed full of great country artists. I’ll be offering pairs of tickets to see Gretchen Peters at the Sage Gateshead in May and Suzy Bogguss a few days later in June in a simple competition. Our On This Day feature tells you why it was a bad day for [...]
Steve Earle at The Sage Gateshead
You certainly do not just have to be a singer and songwriter to be part of the country music world. You can also be a published writer, a political activist, a playright and director and also be cited as the new Bruce Springsteen. How Steve Earle views the latter I’m not too sure, he has [...]