The North East Magazine
Nashville -The Music Of Nashville Original soundtrack is a new CD release to accompany the TV series which on our More 4 TV screens in Britain last Thursday night. Having taken a look last week it portrays the careers of old and new female country stars as they battle against each other for chart success,as [...]
‘When Our Grandfathers Said No’ from The Young’uns is their first release on Navigation Records. The Young’uns are a three-piece male band comprised of David Eagle,Sean Cooney and Michael Hughes all coming from the Teeside region of North East England. They sing a range of songs and styles that mix folk, sea shanties, traditional and [...]
I suppose being in bands for a good part of my life gives me that extra leaning to take notice when a new band release surfaces. For me past brilliance has shone from Alabama, Highway 101, and Exile and more recently the Zac Brown Band, The Band Perry and Little Big Town. As for Little [...]
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 [...]
In any musical genre, occassionally you feel as if you’ve come across something extra special. I feel that I just have. A listener to my ‘American Connection’ show here on Euvue e-mailed me to ask me to take a listen to an artist called Sierra Hull, who I have to confess I had not heard [...]
I’ve always related that country music crosses the boundaries of any musical genre. It also crosses the boundaries of Canada and America, and apart from all the musical output from the States, Canada has always played a big part in producing its fair share of country talent. Names like Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Lisa Brokop, [...]
How many times have you heard the words ‘the voice’. It’s a description that is used in many connotations ,as in ‘the voice of America’,'the village voice’,'the voice of the people’ and of course the ‘voice of country music’. Some say ‘the voice of country music’ is and always has been George Jones, and although [...]