The North East Magazine
kmvt is a new five track extended play CD from Ahab on the Navigation Record label. The band AHAB come onto our musical readar praised by ”Whispering’ Bob Harris the doyen of BBC Radio 2 Country Rock ”as alt -Country edge and sheer class”. This studio-recorded material is released as their second EP produced [...]
The Mavericks ‘In Time’ release is a brand new offering from the band after an absence of nine years. Founded in 1989 they developed a unique sound which took on a Tex Mex cuban style, complimenting great rhythms accompanied by a vibrant horn section and between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums in [...]
In 1966 the Lovin’ Spoonfull brought us a great chart entry with a song called ‘Nashville Cats’. One of the lines in the song related ‘There are Thirteen Hundred and Fifty Two Pickers in Nashville’…. years on of course there are many more all wanting a step on the fame ladder. Many never make it [...]
There have been times over the years when reviewing new releases or playing artists on my radio shows that something special happens after the first listen. I remember the first time I heard Randy Travis and George Strait and thought that a brand new breath of fresh air was coming to country music with their [...]
Many 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’ [...]
I’ve always reckoned that country music crosses the boundaries of all other musical genres. I’ve also always been amazed at folk who relate to the fact that they do not like ‘country’ music, and yet when artists associated with country appear at North East venues they are packed to capacity. We could be a league [...]
It was many years ago at one of the International Festival of Country Music at Wembley that I first heard of Suzy Bogguss. Wearing my radio journalist hat I was there to capture some of the atmosphere of the festival and record interviews with some of the American artists visiting, with proper accreditation this also [...]
Over 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 escaped your [...]