Toby Keith has just returned home after having completed a sellout success ‘Locked and Loaded’ European tour, which included three dates here in Britain. For the uninitiated Toby is one of the most consistently successful artist in the States and the fourth best selling entertainer in the United States, not only in country music circles [...]
EmmyLou Harris
Mention Gram Parsons in country music circles and there is always one name that escapes in the same breath. EmmyLou Harris. In that same breath the legendary Byrds would also have a significant placing. Parsons having left the Byrds to go his own way was introduced to EmmLou by his replacement Chris Hillman and thereby [...]
New Year Country Goodies
As we head towards the New Year and you may have been given cash for your Christmas gift, I thought I’d recommend a few releases that you may want to add to your New Years listening. If you like trio sounds The Dixie Chicks have recently released a double CD entitled ‘the Essential Dixie Chicks’, [...]
The List
“There was always music in my house-my dad’s music. The day after I graduated from High School in Ventura, California, I went on the road with my Dad. We were riding on the tour bus one day in that summer of 73, and we started talking about songs.My Dad mentioned a song and I said [...]
John Fogerty Lifetime Songs
When it comes to singer songwriters you have to add one of America’s most compelling as a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty. If you’re testing the old grey cells as to where you’ve heard the name before you must not be an afficenador of musical history as John was leader of the [...]
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 [...]
The American Connection 5
There’s a cornucopia of country on the show today The ‘On This Day’ feature takes us back to October 17th 1970 (almost forty years ago) with a song that was written by Kris Kristofferson..but it wasn’t Chris who took it to the top of the charts…there’s also some interesting facts about what else happened on [...]
Kevin Costner and Untold Truths
JERRY REED DID it Dolly Parton did it, Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash did it. Kevin Costner did it the opposite way. All of the former country stars carved a way through their music into film acting roles, however director, producer and actor Kevin Costner has moved into his latest venture of releasing [...]