The North East Magazine
Legendary American singer songwriter Emmylou Harris is always welcome to these shores and in particular to our very own The Sage Gateshead. Emmylou who has worked with Bob Dylan (the Desire album) and Gram Parsons on the magnificent “Love Hurts” has in recent years become a songwriter and song interpreter of great acclaim with Daniel [...]
‘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 [...]
We’ve got a couple of real class songs to open this weeks show that may bring back a touch of nostalgia if you’re an Eagles and Everly Brothers fan. Our Album Of The Week features a new offering from an artist perhaps best known to Swedish country fans, although I’m sure this release will give [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Listen and you’ll hear a secret..more than one in fact …two. With modern technology being so advanced in being able to alter pitch, tone, and vocal range in voices on many modern recordings it is more than gratifying to hear an album recorded the way it would have been in the early fifties. I’ve just [...]
On today’s show I’ll be announcing a new competition where you can win the latest highly acclaimed album from Kenny Chesney called ‘Hemingway’s Whiskey’ and the new EP release from ex frontman with the Mavericks Raul Malo. I’ll be taking a look at the risers and fallers in the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and [...]
On today’s show there’s a warm invite to join our American Connection Facebook by just clicking on the panel on the right of this column. There’s quite a few name checks and there’s a reminder as to how you can win fifty eight country tracks by just sending me an e-mail. If you do you [...]