Here’s hoping you’re about to have a Happy Jubilation Country weekend. If the music on today’s show is anything to go by, all you need is around ninety minutes to take time out and take in some great music. Our Album Of The Week feature a young lady making her debut in country music circles, [...]
Claudia Lee – Here Right Now
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 [...]
Intersection – Nanci Griffith
Not only are there pop songs like Springsteens ‘Born In The USA’ that become anthems, but country music also has its offerings. Charley Prides ‘Crystal Chandeliers’ scores fairly high as does “Friends In Low Places’ by Garth Brooks, there are of course too many more to list in a column like this. Having just had [...]
The American Connection Country Music Show
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 [...]
Connie Smith-Long Line Of Heartaches
In his autobiography George Jones cited Connie Smith as his favourite female singer. Elvis had a whole collection of her albums at his Graceland home. Such was, and still is the popularity of the lady with one of the cleanest, purest voices to come out of Nashville that it is no wonder that after an [...]