As we head into Christmas there’s a reminder as to how you can start the New Year with a mega prize. I’ve got four great albums to give away and a pair of tickets to see Marty Stuart in concert at the Sage in Gateshead next year. There’s the regular look into the Billboard Hot [...]
A Country Trip down Memory Lane
There’s a special edition of the show today with a complete change of direction. Today we’re taking a nostalgic look back over decades of country music, when apart from a couple of songs everything you hear has been suggested by you. As a taster there’s tracks from Bobbie Bare, Janie Fricke, Connie Smith, Ricky Skaggs, [...]
Whiskey from Hemingway and Kenny
One of the fastest rising chart successes of the year has to be Kenny Chesneys’ ‘The Boys Of Fall’. After only ten weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart it reached the Number One Spot two weeks ago and has held fast. The song is the the first single released from his brand new [...]
Countryfied
On todays show there’s some really interesting facts in our ‘On This Day ‘ feature including taxi licences, the Tower of London executions, Cologne Cathedral, bath tubs and Michael Jackson spending money. There’s the usual look at the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and our Album of the Week comes from Big and Rich. There’s [...]
Countrywide listening
There’s almost eighty minutes of great music coming your way today with something to suit everyones taste. Our ‘On This Day’ feature takes us back to a number one from 13th March 1976 from an artist I consider to be ‘the voice’ of country (although you may personally disagree). There’s our rolling competition where to [...]
Easton Western Corbin Country
Easton not western but certainly country. If you’ve been a country fan for a fair while now you’ll have noticed that where as one time you could hear a steady flow of recognizable names in the charts, it seems now that the steady flow becomes a conveyor belt of virtual unknowns. One such ‘virtual unknown’ [...]
Countrywide Music
There’s quite a few mentions on todays show if you’ve dropped me a line, and there’s news of two of the best female singer/songwriters coming to the North East in May and June. Our ‘On This Day’ feature lets you know what Elvis did after becoming ill on stage in 1973 and which band rocked [...]
Countrywide
As we’re now into a new month we have a great new competition on the American Connection. There’s no ‘Beat The Bugle’ to rack your brains it’s a straightforward question about Elvis Presley, as one of the prizes is a new release containing lots of the ‘Kings’ hits along with a great album of hits [...]