The North East Magazine
kmvt is a new five track extended play CD from Ahab on the Navigation Record label. The band AHAB come onto our musical readar praised by ”Whispering’ Bob Harris the doyen of BBC Radio 2 Country Rock ”as alt -Country edge and sheer class”. This studio-recorded material is released as their second EP produced [...]
On todays show I’m giving away tickets to see Suzy Bogguss ‘live’ in the North East and if you’re an American Connection Facebook Page listener it could be you that wins a couple of albums ,one from Lyle Lovett the other from Kenny Chesney. Our Album Of The Week comes from an artist who was [...]
There’s an exclusive on todays American Connection when I’ll be playing tracks from an album that is not officially released until January next year. Singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters releases her new album ‘Hello Cruel World’ in two months time however you can here three tracks from it on todays show as it takes up our ‘Album [...]
One of the greatest influences on country music had to be The Byrds and one of the greatest influences on pop music had to be The Hollies. The combination of both their musical contributions and talents at one time was a pipe dream, however when high harmony singer Graham Nash left the Hollies and teamed [...]
On this weeks show there’s a mixed bag of goodies, and some great music coming your way. As a lead in to Christmas ,I’ll be reminding you how you can leave your own special Christmas message for a couple of shows coming soon, and I’ll be inviting you to take part in our mega Christmas [...]
On this weeks show there’s a reminder as to how you can win tickets to see Mary Chapin Carpenter and Tift Merritt when they appear at the Sage Gateshead. There’s the usual look into the ups and downs of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and our Album of the Week comes from the man [...]
This week there’s over an hour and a half of great music coming your way. There’s a last minute reminder of Glen Campbell’s visit to the North East, and your very last chance to win tickets to see either Gretchen Peters or Suzy Bogguss in Concert at the Sage Gateshead. I’ll be telling you why [...]
It always seems to have been a rule of thumb that most bands always have a lead singer,and although I appreciate many of the solo performers of country music I have to confess to having a leaning towards the band sound. This I suppose relates to my own experience of never having the bottle to [...]