The North East Magazine
From the inception of The Sage Gateshead, the country fan has been treated to a plethora of stars from the country music world. Names like Glen Campbell, Marty Stuart, Don Williams, Lyle Lovett, Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss, Matraca Berg, Rosanne Cash, Raul Malo, Nanci Griffiths and a whole host more which also includes another country [...]
‘The Bees’ from Barbara Nesbitt is her second album offering and demonstrates and reveals a maturing artist as a songwriter and performer of some quality. In a handsome mixture of country, folk and rock Barbara writes 12 of the thirteen tracks. She also covers very confidently “Like Strangers” by Boudleaux Bryant made famous by “The [...]
Hank Cochran is considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in the history of country music. Over the years he has had his songs recorded by many artists with the majority of them being Number One chart successes. Songs that spring to mind instantly would be ‘I Fall To Pieces’ and ‘She’s Got You’(Patsy [...]
They say the musical world is a strange old business. If further proof be needed, it’s hard to beleive that a new album by Eric Church entitled ‘Chief’ has debuted at Number One on the Album Charts on both the Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums Charts and as yet he has not had [...]
On this weeks American Connection I shall be telling you of a new feature that I shall be introducing into the programme next week, that I need your help with. A listener from Portsmouth chooses our ‘Remember This’ track and our ‘Coulda Been Country’ track is picked by a listener in Maidstone, Kent. There’s [...]
Blind singer Diane Schuur has made nineteen albums in a career in which her voice has become a byword for polish and poise in the jazz idiom. Possessed of a voice of great intimacy and range she has repeatedly made her own jazz standards over more than thirty years.A fact recognized with her two Grammy [...]
There’s a warm invitation to join me for ninety minutes of great music from Nashville Tennessee on todays show. As usual I’ll be taking a look at the top three best selling singles today and giving you a taster, our album of the week features Blake Shelton and I’ll be playing three tracks from his [...]
On todays show you can win the latest highly acclaimed CD release from Dierks Bentley by just sending me an e-mail. I’ll be taking a look back over the years and telling you what happened on this particular day (11th September) in our ’On This Day’ feature and I’ll be mentioning Bob Dylan, the FA [...]