The North East Magazine
If you’ve ‘liked’ the American Connection Music Show Facebook page then it could be you who wins a single and an album when I make the draw on today’s show. Because this is the month in which I celebrate 33 years of broadcasting country music we’re also adding seven CD albums to the pair of [...]
One of the biggest dates in the country fans musical calendar used to be the International Festival of Country Music held at London’s Wembley Arena each year over the Easter weekend. Affectionately know as the Wembley Festival it gave the country fans the pleasure of seeing many of the legendary country acts here in Britain [...]
Over the years many appreciators of country music have been annoyed by the definite leaning of their beloved music to the world of pop. However here in Britain which is not flooded with country like our American counterparts it is perhaps worth remembering that some cross over pop country hits have given an awareness to [...]
You’ve got to be good to leave an established sucessfull outfit when you decide to carve out a new career as a solo artist. In the pop world names like Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Sting, Alan Price and many more can be listed. In the world of country, names like Neil Young, Darius Rucker, Kenny [...]
As it’s the SummerTyne Americana Festival this weekend at The Sage Gateshead I’ll be giving you a full run down as to all of the artists appearing and playing tracks from some of the headliners. There’s also a fairly healthy listing of ‘Who’s Where and When’ and there’s news of Alison Krauss coming to the [...]
We’ve got quite an exclusive on todays show insomuch that I’m going to be playing three tracks from our ‘Album Of The Week’ featuring the legendary Connie Smith and her first album release for fifteen years which is not released until next month. You can hear three tracks today. Our ‘Remember This ‘ feature takes [...]
As we head into another New Year I thought it was probably appropriate to take a general look back over the last twelve month relating to the country music world. There were some great releases from some stompin’ new artists and memorable offerings from some well established names. Prolific releases on the Humphead record label [...]
Over the years I’ve often mentioned the fact that many country songs crossover into the pop genres and many of the other genres cross over into country. That to my mind is why ‘country’ music should not be dismissed by many ‘none appreciators’ as trite. If you are one of those ‘appreciators’ and you’re also [...]