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 [...]
During the course of preparing my American Connection Show a couple of weeks ago I came across a name I had not heard of before. I liked the song I had heard called ‘It’s Gets Better’ by an artist known as Claudia Lee and duly played it on the show relating that I would love [...]
From July 22nd through to the 25th 2010 The Sage Gateshead in conjunction with the ‘Jumpin’ Hot Club’ presented four days of toe tapping tunes from a variation of genres of American music. The event was the Summertyne Americana Festival with headliner Rosanne Cash. Rosanne Cash needs very little introduction to the musical world as [...]
First and foremost a Happy New Year as I invite you to the first show of 2012. As it’s a New Year there’s a couple of changes to the programme insomuch that I’ll be introducing you to a couple of new features. ‘Country Birthday’ will feature a track from country artists who celebrate their birthday [...]
Todays show is basically a continuation as to where we left off last week. There were so many suggestions from listeners to the show to hear their nostalgic favourite that I’ve basically had to extend the show to accommodate everyones request…hopefully I’ve managed. If you’ve sent in an e-mail for your favourite and it’s not [...]
On this weeks show there’s a mixed bag of goodies, and some great music coming your way. As a lead in to Christmas ,I’ll be reminding you how you can leave your own special Christmas message for a couple of shows coming soon, and I’ll be inviting you to take part in our mega Christmas [...]
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 [...]
On todays show there’s some really interesting facts in our ‘On This Day ‘ feature including taxi licences, the Tower of London executions, Cologne Cathedral, bath tubs and Michael Jackson spending money. There’s the usual look at the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and our Album of the Week comes from Big and Rich. There’s [...]