As we head into another New Year, todays show takes at look back at country music happenings over 2011. I’ll be playing some of the best album tracks that that came from Nashville over the last twelve months in this one hundred minute special. If you want to sit back and relax before you start [...]
Introducing Michael Ray
He performed his first gig at the age of five with his family’s band ‘Country Cousins’. He was influenced by Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, and Gary Allan and has been the opening act for Little Texas, Emerson Drive, Darryl Worley and Rodney Atkins, and as yet he is a complete new name on [...]
Lady Antebellum need you now
I’ve often related to the fact that in country music there’s many cases of following in family footsteps. Instant examples that spring to mind are Rosanne Cash and father Johnny, Pam Tillis and father Mel, Dean Miller and father Roger, Shooter Jennings and father Waylon, the list is practically endless, however more recently country music [...]
Gretchen Peters ‘Circus Girl’
“They are my life. They are the story of my life, and they are the story of other people’s lives. Sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference and that’s no mistake”. The opening words of the liner notes from the latest release from Gretchen Peters entitled ‘Circus Girl’. Gretchen has been a singer songwriter for [...]