The North East Magazine
On today’s American Connection Radio Show I’ll be playing a track from a singer who posed in the Playgirl magazine, introducing you to a rising star from Australia, and featuring a song from a ‘singing fisherman’. Our Album Of The Week features Eric Church and a European release which debuted in 2006….don’t ask…I’ll explain all [...]
There’s more than a touch of nostalgia on todays American Connection. Over the last couple of month listeners have been sending requests in to the show reating to their favourite artists as this Saturday the show comprises of ‘Oldies”. Songs featuring artists from 1950 through to the year 2000 take prominence from all the e-mails [...]
If you like the sounds of a group or band rather than solo performers there’s a real treat in store on today’s show as our Album Of The Week comes from Little Big Town. I’ll be introducing you to new artists like Amber Hayes, Florida Georgia Line, High Valley and Casey James and I’ll be [...]
There’s a touch of ‘musical magic’ on today’s show as I introduce you to Heather McCready who takes up our Album Of The Week slot. It’s impressed me so much that I’ll be playing four tracks instead of the normal three, and you have the chance of winning a copy of it. I’ll be taking [...]
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, [...]
On todays show there’s special treat in our Album of the Week as instead of the usual three tracks I’ll be playing four…it’s the latest from The Dixie Chicks. Our On This Day feature looks back to October the ninth over the last few decades and I’ll be giving mentions to stitching, what the BBC [...]
On todays shows there’s lots of mentions if you’ve joined me on our American Connection Facebook page. I’ll be telling you how by just sending me an e-mail you can win a pair of tickets to see Rosanne Cash in Concert at the Sage Gateshead ..and it’s her only British date. Our Album of the [...]
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’ [...]