The North East Magazine
This charming CD from Dala entitled ‘Best Day’ is the fifth album from Canadian duo that has been performing together since 2002. Gifted singers and songwriters Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther’s new album is a quantum leap forward in their song writing talents and performance. Garlanded with three Canadian Folk music award nominations for songs [...]
A Happy and prosperous New Year to You from the American Connection Country Radio Show. The first show into the New Year not only brings you greeting but a few new features aswell. To keep you well and truly up to date with musical trends in Nashville each week I’ll be playing the Top Five [...]
This week there’s a real special flavour to the show as we link in with Nashville and a superstar takes over to present the show. A couple of month ago Carrie Underwood became the first American country artist to play to a fully packed house at the Royal Albert Hall on her first visit to [...]
He has already sold nearly sixty million albums worldwide. He has topped the country singles charts thirty five times and had more than fifty Top Ten hits writing or co-wrighting twenty five of them and is a sixteen times Country Music Association Award recipient. Since his emergence on the scene in 1989 with ‘Here In [...]
It could seem that after the results of Britain’s Got Talent final where Ashley and doggie partner Pudsey took top honours that British audiences prefer dogs rather than singers to win. Not so however in the States where their talent shows produce more vocal winners than anything else. One such winner from their 2005 American [...]
In the States ‘diesel therapy’ is a form of punishment in which American prisoners are shackled and then transported for days or weeks. In the North East of England Diesel Therapy are a four piece band which give pleasure rather than punishment and an outfit you could listen to for days and weeks. Comprising of [...]
For the traditional country music fan 2006 was a sad year when the ‘gentle giant’ of country music Don Williams announced that he was retiring. A ‘Farewell Tour of the World’ followed with Don playing numerous dates in Europe and in the United States. It culminated with a ‘Final Farewell Concert’ in Memphis Tennessee at [...]
There’s a cracking Album Of The Week on todays show as I play three tracks from Dierks Bentley’s new album. I’ll be taking a look at the ups and downs of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and playing the top three this very day in Nashville. The ‘Take You Back Track Number One’ takes [...]