The North East Magazine
Gary Allans new album release ‘Set You Free’ has already made him a happy man. Emerging on the country scene in 1996 he has now produced his eighth album and with it his first number one from it which topped the Billboard Country Airplay Charts last Thursday with a song called “Every Storm (Runs Out [...]
You can perhaps be excused for not knowing about country singer Jill Johnson if you haven’t visited Sweden over the last few years. She has however been steeped in country music since the tender age of four and in 1998 she performed at Melodifestivalen and won through to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. [...]
Last year was a great year for the Georgian country singer Luke Bryan who scored two number ones in the Billboard Charts with ‘Someone Else Calling You Baby’ and ‘Rain Is A Good Thing’. He is perhaps a superstar in the making as he is now into releasing his third studio album entitled ‘Tailgates and [...]
It is almost a year since another piece of country music history was made. On the second of September 2010 Multi Award winning duo Brooks and Dunn (Kix and Ronnie) decided after twenty years at the top of the hitmakers ladder that they would quit their duo association and revert back to their solo interests. [...]
Mention the name ‘Possum’ to any country music fan and they will immediately know to whom you refer. Affectionately or perhaps non affectionately depending on where you stand with the nickname it was the shape of his nose and his facial features that gave him the tag. Other tags have included ‘Thumper Jones’, ‘No Show [...]