The American Connection Country Music Show

962766967 VLExP S The American Connection Country Music ShowOn todays show there’s a chance to win tickets to see the daughter of Johnny Cash, Rosanne when she appears at The Sage Gateshead on March 26th.

There’s a look at the ups and downs of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and our Album Of

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Rosanne Cash at The Sage Gateshead.

Rosann Cash S Rosanne Cash at The Sage Gateshead.From July 22nd through to the 25th  2010 The Sage Gateshead in conjunction with the ‘Jumpin’ Hot Club’  presented four days of toe tapping tunes from a variation of genres of American music.

The event was the Summertyne Americana Festival with headliner Rosanne Cash.

Rosanne Cash

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Nanci Griffith at The Sage Gateshead

NANCI S Nanci Griffith at The Sage GatesheadMany years ago in the halycon days of the Peterborough Country Music Festival I had the pleasure of seeing a fairly new artist at the time called Nanci Griffith.

Nanci was new to hard core British country music audiences and it was not perhaps until the release of her album ‘Lone Star State of Mind’

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Dierks Bentley - Home

DIERKS S Dierks Bentley HomeDierks Bentley has come a long way since he released his first self titled album in 2003.

During that time he has charted seven number one singles and produced the same number of albums the last of which is released here in  Britain next Monday  (Feb 20th).

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Alex Zane presents the Best of Rude Tube

Stocking filler S Alex Zane presents the Best of Rude TubeAlternative stand up comic Alex Zane presented four series of this Channel 4 hit show.

It is now available on DVD lasting around one hundred and fifty minutes and priced at £19.99.

Living out the Andy Warhol mantra that everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes the show’s

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Michael Jackson - The Man Behind The Mask

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 The Man Behind the Mask  written by
Bob Jones with Stacy Brown

Who was the Man in the Mirror?

Michael Jackson died in seedy circumstances apparently at the hands of the Doctor paid a hundred  thousand dollars a month to look after him.

On the verge of a comeback

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Martina McBride - Eleven

Martina S Martina McBride ElevenOver the years it seems the female country artist fraternity have taken on names of affection relating to their status.

Tammy Wynette was known as ‘The First Lady Of Country Music’, Loretta Lynn as the ‘Coalminers Daughter’, Dolly Parton as ‘The Queen Of Country Music, and the list goes on.

What may have

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Mark Chesnutt - The Ultimate Collection Complete MCA Singles 1990-2000

Mark Chesnutt S Mark Chesnutt The Ultimate Collection Complete MCA Singles 1990 2000If you’re into honky tonk music then no doubt you will be aware of one of the most successfull new breed exponents of the styling.

In 1990 Texas bred Mark Chesnutt was signed to the MCA record label

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The American Connection Country Music Show

653615206 J2Yxv S The American Connection Country Music ShowThere’s a real special treat on todays show as I hand over the airwaves to David Wild from the Rolling Stone magazine.

If apart from being a country music fan you’re also a lover of great films then no doubt you’ll have seen the award winning ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou ‘ movie.

It

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Insidious - DVD

Look up the word ‘insidious’ in the dictionary and you will find, ‘proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects, treacherous, crafty, beguiling, intending to entrap’. 

This new DVD release from Momentum Pictures captures all these emotions in full power over its one hundred and three minutes running time.

It was my grandson who first made me aware of the film when he saw it in the cinema a couple of months ago

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