There’s news on today’s show of a special bumper Christmas giveaway by just becoming a member of the American Connection Facebook page. You could win albums from Lyle Lovett, Ben Kweller, Gretchen Peters, Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley and single releases from Toby Keith, Tift Merritt, Sean Wilson, Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson and Alison Moorer. [...]
The American Connection Country Show
There’s a warm invitation to join me for ninety minutes of great music from Nashville Tennessee on todays show. As usual I’ll be taking a look at the top three best selling singles today and giving you a taster, our album of the week features Blake Shelton and I’ll be playing three tracks from his [...]
The American Connection Country Music Show
We’ve got quite an exclusive on todays show insomuch that I’m going to be playing three tracks from our ‘Album Of The Week’ featuring the legendary Connie Smith and her first album release for fifteen years which is not released until next month. You can hear three tracks today. Our ‘Remember This ‘ feature takes [...]
Country Matters-The American Connection
There’s an across the board mixed bag of music coming your way on todays show with something for everyone. There’s also an invitation to win tickets to see Lyle Lovett in concert at The Sage Gateshead when he appears in July as part of the SummerTyne Americana Festival. I’ll be taking the usual look at [...]
Country Music-The American Connection
There’s an across the board mix on this weeks show with music to suit all tastes. Our listeners choice for the ‘Remember This’ track takes us back to 1963 and in our Coulda Been Country slot you may be surprised to hear that it comes from a mega superstar British band from an album they [...]
A Walk in the Country
On this week’s show our Album Of The Week comes from the man who visits the Sage Gateshead next January, that’s Marty Stuart. There’s a reminder as to how you can win the latest highly acclaimed album from Kenny Chesney entitled ‘Hemingway’s Whiskey along with a brand new four track release from ex frontman with [...]
Country Breeze
On this weeks show there’s a reminder that it’s your last chance to win a double CD release from Randy Travis as I’ll be making the draw on next weeks show. In our On This Day feature I’ll be mentioning The Beatles, Bob Dylan, potatoes,Gerri Halliwell and breastfeeding. Our Album of the Week comes from [...]