The North East Magazine
Produced and directed by Jim Brown this time Time Life DVD entitled ‘American Troubadour” is available at all good CD/DVD stores. “American Pie”, “Vincent”, “And I Love You So” are three songs that will live forever. Their author and singular performer Don McLean the American singer songwriter is the subject of this slow burning but [...]
Our Album Of The Week on today’s American Connection may introduce you to a touch of Physcobilly Music as I play three tracks from Nick13. There’s country birthdays, dedications and requests and our Take You Back Track Number One goes back in time to a two week chart topping song from 1982. New artists featured [...]
As we’re ony days away from the start of a New Year I thought I’d take a look back over the country scene of 2011. It was the year when thankfully more American artists appreciated the fact that country music was alive and well in Britain and decided to visit. Appearances in our area of [...]
If you can cast your mind back to the Sixties and relate to an artist who to date has sold over 250 million records then you may have an idea as to who features in our ‘Coulda Been Country’ track on todays show. ‘Remember This’ also takes us back to the Sixties and the days [...]
Released to commemorate what would have been a legends 75th birthday …’Listen To Me’ relives his music. To many Charles Hardin Holley was one of rock and roll’s true pioneers who stamped an indelible mark on the musical world that will never been forgotten. The world of course new him as Buddy Holly, the name [...]
Sunday Evening will Never Be The Same Again ! From 1992 to 2010 ‘Heartbeat’ was king of Sunday evening television with viewing figures regularly in excess of 14 million. Based in the Sixties and set in the fictional village of Aidensfield in the very real and very beautiful North Yorkshire Moors it told the stories [...]
There’s a full update on todays show relating to American country artists visiting Britain in the next few month. Our ‘Remember This’ track brings wedding memories back to a listener from Swindon and the ‘Coulda Been Country’ track suggested by a listener from Durham takes us back to the summer of 1976. Our Album of [...]
In the annals of popular music there will always be one group who stand firm and head high above the rest. The rest in fact have followed on from their example. Even England’s best export, The Beatles were so influenced by them that they wanted to name their band after an insect. That band of [...]