As we welcome in a brand New Year it seems we are also going to welcome a plethora of visiting artists during 2012. The Sage Gateshead will take on it’s fair share of offering an eclectic mix of country with announcements already of Rosanne Cash (daughter of Johnny), Nanci Griffith, Don Williams (returning from ‘retirement’) [...]
Gretchen Peters – Hello Cruel World
There’s an old saying that goes “To be able to write good songs about good and bad times in life…you have to live through them”. On many occasions the truth proceeds, however in others like a line in Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues: “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”, certainly falls [...]
The American Connection Country Music Show
There’s an exclusive on todays American Connection when I’ll be playing tracks from an album that is not officially released until January next year. Singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters releases her new album ‘Hello Cruel World’ in two months time however you can here three tracks from it on todays show as it takes up our ‘Album [...]