The North East Magazine
Legendary American singer songwriter Emmylou Harris is always welcome to these shores and in particular to our very own The Sage Gateshead. Emmylou who has worked with Bob Dylan (the Desire album) and Gram Parsons on the magnificent “Love Hurts” has in recent years become a songwriter and song interpreter of great acclaim with Daniel [...]
Create a new individual unique sound in any genre of music and it has to bring success….just ask The Mavericks. With a flourish of Tex Mex and country fused together complimented with a horn section they came on the musical scene as a band in 1989 and between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio [...]
There’s a cornucopia of great country sounds on todays show with an eclectic mix of old and new. Our Album Of The Week features an award winning young brother and sister trio who go by the name of The Band Perry. I’ll be taking the usual look at the ups and downs of the Billboard [...]
If you’re a ‘King Of The Hill’ TV watcher and enjoy the character named ‘Elvin’ then you may not be aware that the character voice is that of an award winning country music star. Trace Adkins (apart from his voice over role) has just released his tenth studio album entitled ‘Proud To Be Here’. Containing [...]
There’s a cornucopia of country sounds coming your way on todays show from the Travelling Wilburys through to Confederate Railroad. ‘Remember This’ takes us back to a time when a couple of listeners holidayed in Nashville and our ‘Coulda Been Country’ track features a number three chart success here in Britain in 1963. There’s the [...]
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 [...]