The North East Magazine
Kasey Musgraves debut album ‘Same Trailer, Different Park’ was released on the Mercury label here in England last week. She may be a brand new name to many country appreciators albeit that she is already making a name for herself in country music circles. When Lady Antebellum played England last year you will have been [...]
When it comes to performance highlights Tift Merritt relates that one of her biggest came in 2008. Having already had the thrill of being the opening act for Joan Baez and then opening for Kris Kristofferson in her hometown, the ultimate was to sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ for Senator Barack Obama at his last [...]
She may be a new name to you but she has been on the country scene Stateside since 2006. Teea Goans was singing in church at the age of three, was spotted at a talent contest at the age of eight by the Truman Lake Opry and a year later become a fully fledged member. [...]
In her fourth grade at school, she won a national poetry competition with a three page poem called ‘Monster In My Closet’, at the age of ten a repairman showed her how to play three chords on a guitar and at the age of eleven she had written her own songs and made her first [...]
He performed his first gig at the age of five with his family’s band ‘Country Cousins’. He was influenced by Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, and Gary Allan and has been the opening act for Little Texas, Emerson Drive, Darryl Worley and Rodney Atkins, and as yet he is a complete new name on [...]
It is always very difficult being the opening act. In the majority of cases everyone comes to a show to see ‘the headliner’ and to many the opening act is incidental. I have to confess to never having heard of Elizabeth Cook until I attended a Suzy Bogguss concert a few year ago when she [...]