The North East Magazine
Tim McGraw’s Two Lanes Of Freedom was released a couple of weeks ago to coincide with his first visit to the UK. Although he had never performed here before he did enjoy a number one record called ‘Over and Over’ with Nelly in 2005 and has had successful nationwide airplays with the song ‘Me and [...]
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. [...]
It’s back to normal on this weeks show after the last two weeks specials. As usual it’s packed with country music old and new and apart from the occasional glance at the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts I’ll also be playing the three best selling singles this very day in Nashville, Tennessee. Our ‘Album Of [...]
The shows seems to get busier every week with so much good music around. This week is no exception to the rule as it’s filled with all the usual goodies including information relating to where you can go and see Taylor Swift, Sarah McClurg, Gene Watson, Suzy Bogguss, Matraca Berg, and Gretchen Peters on their [...]
She is only 22 years old and in 2008 was ranked as the best selling musician of the year in the United States. Her debut single called ‘Tim McGraw’ was released in 2006 from her selftitled debut album and was subsequently certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and she was nominated in [...]
There’s an across the board mix on this weeks show with music to suit all tastes. Our listeners choice for the ‘Remember This’ track takes us back to 1963 and in our Coulda Been Country slot you may be surprised to hear that it comes from a mega superstar British band from an album they [...]
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 [...]
On this week’s show our Album Of The Week comes from the man who visits the Sage Gateshead next January, that’s Marty Stuart. There’s a reminder as to how you can win the latest highly acclaimed album from Kenny Chesney entitled ‘Hemingway’s Whiskey along with a brand new four track release from ex frontman with [...]