There’s around ninety minutes of great country music coming your way on today’s American Connection. There’s classic songs from Kenny Rogers, Don Williams and Billie Jo Spears and I’ll be playing a track from a Canadian artist who celebrates his seventy fourth birthday today in our Country Birthdays slot. I’ll be taking the usual look [...]
The Crickets-Turning on the country
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 [...]
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 [...]