You’re probably aware of country music, cajun music, and outlaw music but are you aware of Red Dirt music?. Red Dirt music is a genre of music that gets its name from the colour of the soil found in Oklahoma, although Stillwater in Oklahoma is supposedly the centre of the Red Dirt Music sound. Not [...]
The Time Jumpers
According to the majority of musicians, there is nothing better than a good old ‘jam’ session. This is personified in a new CD release by an outfit called The Time Jumpers. Featuring studio musicians and singers this eleven piece outfit comprised of Dawn Sears, ‘Ranger’ Doug Green, Andy Reiss, Dennis Crouch, Jeff Taylor, Joe Spivey, [...]
George Strait – Here For a Good Time
There are not many artists who can equate to the success of George Strait. Known as the King of Country to his Nashville peers George has just released his thirty ninth album appropriately enough called ‘Here For A Good Time’. Apart from his thirty ninth release, in his musical career so far he has released 92 [...]
Marty Stuart – Ghost Train
There can not be many artists who have been in bands with Johnny Cash, Doc Watson, and Lester Flatt. Marty Stuart played for them all and many others. He has however been an artist in his own right for many years now and in Britain we can see him weekly on the Marty Stuart Show on [...]
Buck Owens Memories
Mention the Bakersfield sound and almost every fan will relate to Buck Owens who was a great pioneer of an authentic sound that set the styling for what was to follow on from the late fifties into the sixties. Unapologetically country to the core, he kept his music pure and simple, offering a sizzling, refreshing [...]
Strait back into the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart
They call him the ‘King Of Country’ and if his latest release is anything to go by, then he certainly is. Just when country music moguls were pondering which direction country music was taking in the early eighties along came an artist with a uniqueness that could not be ignored. Whereas country producers were offering a [...]