Matraca Berg in the UK

Matraca

There are few who can emulate her writing talent, and many would love to be one song behind. Mention hitmakers like Suzy Bogguss, The Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, Deana Carter, Linda Ronstadt, Sara Evans, T.G.Sheppard and Pam Tillis to name only a few, and they have all recorded songs from the pen of [...]

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Matraca Berg returns to The Sage Gateshead

If you have had the pleasure of experiencing the Wine, Women and Song shows with Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss and Matraca Berg, then you may relate to the fact that Matraca is the ‘quiet ‘one. She’ll also be the first to admit that before she comes on stage for a performance she gets ‘butterflies’. To [...]

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Country sounds

On today’s show there’s a mixed bag of country goodies. I’ll be introducing you to a new outfit called Train and I’ll be playing a track from someone you know but perhaps haven’t heard of for a while, I’ll even challenge you to try and identify him before his song finishes…as a clue you’ll have [...]

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Take a trip in the Country

On today’s American Connection in the ‘On This Day’ feature you can find out which legendary artist performed to an audience of only twenty five people and what the Playboy magazine announced in 1985. There’s also a look a some of the artists moving up and down the Billboard Hot Country Music Charts and I’ll [...]

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Wine, Women and Song

It seems hard to believe that it will be almost two years to the date that one of the greatest singer/songwriting talents performed at the Sage in Gateshead. On May 21st 2007 a packed audience spent two hours listening to three of the most musical and talented female country  artists ever to emerge from Music [...]

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