I suppose being in bands for a good part of my life gives me that extra leaning to take notice when a new band release surfaces. For me past brilliance has shone from Alabama, Highway 101, and Exile and more recently the Zac Brown Band, The Band Perry and Little Big Town. As for Little [...]
The American Connection Country Music Show
There’s a fair mix of both brand new and old on todays show. James Otto takes up our Album Of The Week and I’ll be featuring three tracks from his album entitled ‘Shake What God Gave Ya’. I’ll also be taking a look at a few artists who celebrate their birthday this week and playing [...]
The American Connection
As it’s the SummerTyne Americana Festival this weekend at The Sage Gateshead I’ll be giving you a full run down as to all of the artists appearing and playing tracks from some of the headliners. There’s also a fairly healthy listing of ‘Who’s Where and When’ and there’s news of Alison Krauss coming to the [...]
Randy Travis-25th Anniversary Collection
Some 25 years ago when I was working for a local North-East radio station I received a vinyl album featuring an artist called Randy Ray entitled Randy Ray at the Nashville Palace. For a virtual unknown artist it was a great release and some two months later I received a single vinyl release with a [...]
Countrywide Country Music
If you’ve joined our American Connection Facebook page you could be the winner of our free monthly draw today when you could win the latest album from Ilse DeLange. Having had two different shows over the last couple of weeks we return to normal today with all the usual features. Our Album Of The Week [...]
Country to Country
As there’s only one week to go before we launch the ‘Talking Country’ feature there’s news on today’s show as to how you can register to be one of the first to take a listen. Our Album of the Week feature three tracks from recent visitors to Britain, that’s Sugarland and their new album ‘The [...]
A Happy New Country Year
I hope you had a really great Christmas and wish you a very Happy New Year. As we start into a new decade I thought I’d take a look back over a few things relating to country in 2010. The Sage at Gateshead provided us with some great acts during the year as did the [...]
Take a walk in the country
On this week’s show I’ll be announcing the winner from our June competition and it could be you going to see Rosanne Cash when she appears in our area. In our ‘On This Day’ feature I’ll be mentioning The Pony Express, Batman, A Norway newspaper, and possibly something you won’t know about a schoolboys favourite [...]