The North East Magazine
On today’s American Connection Radio Show there’s a song that’s been recorded by Susan Boyle. As strange as that may sound, country music had it first in 1963 and it’s also been recorded by a wealth of artists including The Carpenters, Johnny Mathis, Eddie Arnold, Nanci Sinatra and Twiggy. Our Album Of The Week features [...]
There’s some new names to introduce you to on todays American Connection show. Keleigh Bannen, Dee Hilligoss, Gwen Sebastian, The Gords and our Album of the Week introduces the Red Dirt Rangers. I’ll be taking the usual look at the ups and downs of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and playing the top three [...]
There’s a special edition of the show today with a complete change of direction. Today we’re taking a nostalgic look back over decades of country music, when apart from a couple of songs everything you hear has been suggested by you. As a taster there’s tracks from Bobbie Bare, Janie Fricke, Connie Smith, Ricky Skaggs, [...]
At the beginning of the eighties I was introduced to the music of Moe Bandy an ex rodeo clown who through his down home traditional sounds was gaining great chart success both with single and album releases. One of his singing buddies during this time was fellow artist Joe Stampley ,teaming together they recorded a [...]