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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris Youngs ‘Neon’ will be released to coincide with his UK debut next month as part of the CMA Songwriters Series. The Country Music Association’s Songwriter series involves Stateside songwriters, the likes of Chris, Bob DiPiero,Brett James, and Kristian Bush all present on stage singing and talking about their best known songs. The English date [...]
He’ll not be a new name to the country fans but for the uninitiated Easton Corbin is doing big business in country music circles. He made history in 2010 with his self titled debut album by becoming the first solo male artist in seventeen years to have his first two single releases reach the Number [...]
During the course of preparing my American Connection Show a couple of weeks ago I came across a name I had not heard of before. I liked the song I had heard called ‘It’s Gets Better’ by an artist known as Claudia Lee and duly played it on the show relating that I would love [...]
You can perhaps be excused for not knowing about country singer Jill Johnson if you haven’t visited Sweden over the last few years. She has however been steeped in country music since the tender age of four and in 1998 she performed at Melodifestivalen and won through to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. [...]
If you can remember motherly advice like “You shouldn’t go out with your hair wet – you’ll catch your death of cold” and “Starve a fever and feed a cold”, then along with many other inherited cures, you’ll be fascinated by a new publication called 101 Common Myths and Misconceptions by Brian Undermann.Ph.D. Also as [...]
There’s a special edition of the show today with a complete change of direction. Today we’re taking a nostalgic look back over decades of country music, when apart from a couple of songs everything you hear has been suggested by you. As a taster there’s tracks from Bobbie Bare, Janie Fricke, Connie Smith, Ricky Skaggs, [...]