The North East Magazine
Produced and directed by Jim Brown this time Time Life DVD entitled ‘American Troubadour” is available at all good CD/DVD stores. “American Pie”, “Vincent”, “And I Love You So” are three songs that will live forever. Their author and singular performer Don McLean the American singer songwriter is the subject of this slow burning but [...]
Our Album Of The Week on today’s American Connection may introduce you to a touch of Physcobilly Music as I play three tracks from Nick13. There’s country birthdays, dedications and requests and our Take You Back Track Number One goes back in time to a two week chart topping song from 1982. New artists featured [...]
If you’ve ‘liked’ the American Connection Facebook page then it could be you who wins a couple of great country albums on today’s show when I make the free draw from all the ‘likes’. There’s a few dedications and requests and I’ll be introducing you new artists like One Night Rodeo, and Chelsea Basham. Our [...]
A few year ago I was asked by a radio colleague to sit in on his show with a handful of my choice country CD’s to compare them with his choice. As the programme unfolded and without either of us knowing each other’s choice we found that out of the six CD’s we had each [...]
I first came across Sarah Mc Quaid last year with her wonderful album ‘I Won’t Go Home’Till Morning’. Blessed with a voice that is both moving and subtle she put her stamp on some old standards and has dipped her toe into song writing with two songs of her own. In a quantum leap forward [...]
From the early days of Boone Creek with Ricky Skaggs, and as frontman with Pure Prairie League I have always appreciated the talent of Vince Gill. Since those early days he has earned eighteen Country Music Association Awards and twenty Grammies (the most of any country music artist) and sold in excess of eighteen million [...]
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’ [...]