There’s plenty for everyone on today’s show with an across the board mix of stylings. Our Take You Back Number One takes us back to 1989 from one of the best selling duo’s in country music history. Album Of The Week comes from Jack Ingram and I’ll be taking the usual look at the Billboard [...]
Country to Country
On todays show there’s a chance for you to win tickets to see Lyle Lovett in concert when he appears at The Sage Gateshead as part of the forthcoming SummerTyne Americana on July 24th. There’s also a look at the ups and downs in the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and our Album Of The [...]
Big dreams for a new name ?
Two year ago when a supposed ‘new name’ Jack Ingram won the Academy of Country Music award for Best New Male Vocalist many people new it was not quite true. The fact was that to thousands of people in the audience in the Vegas emporium , the ‘new’ meant that for years previous, he had [...]
American Country Connections
It’s a busy, busy show today, crammed full of great country artists. I’ll be offering pairs of tickets to see Gretchen Peters at the Sage Gateshead in May and Suzy Bogguss a few days later in June in a simple competition. Our On This Day feature tells you why it was a bad day for [...]
Looking back over the country
As we head into another New Year I thought it was probably appropriate to take a general look back over the last twelve month relating to the country music world. There were some great releases from some stompin’ new artists and memorable offerings from some well established names. Prolific releases on the Humphead record label [...]