TOBY
KEITH-KELLIE PICKLER-ELI YOUNG BAND CONCERT REVIEW
Oklahoma
superstar Toby Keith headlined a Rod Laver Arena concert featuring
North Carolina star Kellie Pickler and the Eli Young Band from
Denton, Texas.
The multi-millionaire singer-songwriter, I Love This Bar restaurant
chain owner and Mezcal Tequila merchandiser welcomed Australian
servicemen and women to his packed concert after headlining
the seventh CMC Rocks The Hunter festival.
Dancing With The Stars winner Kellie and Eli Young Band performed
to promote latest albums The Woman I Am and 10,000
Towns.
The gig by Redneck Woman Gretchen Wilson and Novocastrian Morgan
Evans was transferred from the St Kilda Palais to the even more
historic Forum in the shadows of Federation Square and The Duke
Of Wellington where drinkers can have an ale with the whale
- Brian Roberts.
It may be a few long seasons since The Whale pulled on the boots
for Richmond and South Melbourne but his legend looms large
in the Flinders St watering hole.
But Gretchen, 40, and Evans, 28, sampled an ale from James Boag
& Son in Van Diemen's Land at the Forum.
Acclaimed
Illinois born singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge wowed fans on
his debut Australian tour that included the 38th Port Fairy
Folk festival and select capital city concerts.
Pokey, just 31, was touring to promote his seven solo albums
that date back to his 2006 self-released debut disc Marmalade.
Our web mistress Anne Sydenham photographed and reviewed his
Melbourne concert at the Corner Hotel, Richmond, with Melbourne
bluegrass band Mustered Courage.
We
have more exciting news - thanks to Universal Music promotions
supremo Diana Caruso.
You can win Grammy winner Rosanne Cash's acclaimed 15th album
The River & The Thread that reached #11 on Billboard's
all genre chart on debut.
Cash, 58 and mother of four, wrote her new 11 track album
after visiting the Deep South on several field trips with
second husband and co-writer-producer John Leventhal.
They
also included a song they wrote with her first husband - her
Texan born former producer and duet partner Rodney Crowell.
Cash
and Leventhal also visited the famed Tallahatchie Bridge near
where songwriter Emmett Till was murdered and blue legend Robert
Johnson died.
Former President Bill Clinton summoned Cash at interval in a
Carnegie Hall concert to meet him to discuss what was thrown
off the Tallahatchie Bridge in Bobby Gentry's famous 1967 hit
Ode To Billy Joe that Cash performed that night.
Oklahoma
superstar Toby Keith is making his debut Australian tour in
March and we have his 19th CD Drinks After Work for new
members and renewing members.
Universal Music promotions chief Jordan Wiggins has provided
copies of the huge selling disc to help promote the multi-millionaire's
tour.
Keith, 53, and father of three including singer daughter Krystal,
headlines the 7th CMC Rocks The Hunter festival from March 14-16.
He also plays Rod Laver Arena with Kellie Pickler and the Texan
Eli Young Band on March 19.
Drinks
After Work is dedicated to Keith's late bass player-bandleader
Chuck Goff, who died in a Cleveland County car accident in February,
and features the emotional anthem Chuckie's Gone.
It was déjà vu - on March 24, 2001 (Keith's 17th
wedding anniversary), his father was killed in a car accident
on Interstate 35.
That event and the September 11 attacks in 2001 prompted Keith
to write Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue - a song
about his father's patriotism and faith in the United States.
Chuckie's Gone leads off with lyrics about his fellow
Oklahoman Chuck not being around for the spring tornadoes that
defined so much of 2013 for multi-millionaire Keith and his
home state.
You can win Drinks After Work by becoming a Nu Country
TV member or renewing your membership.
Arkansas
born singer-songwriter Iris De Ment wowed fans on her second
sold out Australian concert tour.
Web mistress Anne Sydenham was stage front for both De Ment
tours - the first at the long departed Continental Café
in Prahran in 1998 and now, 15 years later, at the Thornbury
Theatre.
Iris, 52 and youngest of 14 children, was accompanied by her
first husband Elmer - a fireman - on her debut Australian tour.
This time Iris, now wed to Iowa singer-songwriter Greg Brown,
toured solo while Greg's daughter Pieta performed here with
Tasmanian Lucie Thorne in their duo Love Over Gold.
Iris, who appeared in The Songcatcher movie in 2000,
was touring here to promote her 5th album Sing The Delta
and songs featured in the movie Little Buddha and
Coen Brothers film True Grit and TV show Northern
Exposure.
KINKY
FRIEDMAN BI-POLAR TOUR
CARAVAN CLUB CONCERT REVIEW
Kinky
Friedman live at Caravan Music Club 28/11/13 - photo by Kip
Karpik
Singing
Texan crime novelist Kinky Friedman performed two Melbourne
concerts on his 10th Australian tour in November.
This time The Kinkster left 2011 touring partner Van Dyke Parks
at home and performed solo.
Our photographer to the stars and former Nu Country FM treasurer
Kip Karpik was stage side at The Toff In The Town at Curtin
House.
And our TV show producer David Dawson was lured from his sick
bed by the Kinkster, now 69 and holding, to analyse his new
jokes at the user friendly Caravan Club in Oakleigh.
ALAN
JACKSON - SARA EVANS MELBOURNE CONCERT REVIEW
Georgian
superstar Alan Jackson and latter day Alabama touring partner
Sara Evans performed a marathon concert at Rod Laver Arena in
Melbourne as the capital city finale of their Australian tour.
The duo, supported by Novocastrian Morgan Evans, performed to
a near capacity crowd.
Jackson, 54, released his first bluegrass album on the eve of
his second Australian tour but did not showcase any of his new
originals in his 25 song set.
But we will have videos of two of his bluegrass originals -
Blue Ridge Mountain Song and Blacktop - in Series
#21 of Nu Country TV over summer.
Evans, 42, released a tour souvenir 24 track double CD - Stronger
and Greatest Hits - and debuted latest single Slow Me
Down from an album to be released in 2014.
She also promoted one of her favourite charities World Vision
during her set.
TOBY
KEITH 2014 AUSTRALIAN TOUR
CAPITAL CITY DATES
WIN HIS CD HOPE ON THE ROCKS
Oklahoma
country star Toby Keith makes his debut Australian tour when
he headlines the 2014 CMC Rocks The Hunter festival in NSW from
March 14-16.
Former Mississippi boxing champion Paul Thorn and Texan Eli
Young Band are also to return here and join Keith, 51 and father
of singer Krystal, at the three day festival.
U.S. Dancing With The Stars winner Kellie Pickler, duet partner
of Melbourne singer Jasmine Rae, also plays the festival that
features return of U.S. artists Love & Theft and Craig Campbell.
Keith,
Pickler and the Eli Young Band also play concerts in Brisbane
and Sydney before ending the tour at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne
on Wednesday March 19.
Tickets
go on sale Friday October 4 for all capital city concerts.
Other acts announced for CMC Rocks The Hunter include expatriate
Australian bluegrass trio The Greencards, Aussie country king
Lee Kernaghan, The Flood, Morgan Evans, Adam Eckersley Band,
Luke O'Shea, Kaylens Rain and New Zealand singer Jody Direen.
You
can win a copy of Toby's 18th CD Hope On The Rocks
by becoming a member of Nu Country TV or renewing your membership
before our 21st series in December.
CELEBRATE AND WIN 40 YEARS OF CHARLEY PRIDE DOUBLE CD
When
Charley Pride released his first single The Snakes Crawl
At Night in 1965 it went to radio with no accompanying
photo.
It scored major airplay and in 1967 Pride became only the
second African American to appear on the Grand Ol Opry.
Charley's song launched his career celebrated on his 17th
Australian tour in November with a 40 song double CD 40
Years Of Pride on Sony Music.
It includes his first single and 39 other classics that began
with debut #1 hit - All I Have to Offer You (Is Me).
The
album also includes Kiss An Angel Good Morning - a
million-selling hit that helped Pride win CMA Entertainer
of the Year in 1971 and Top Male Vocalist in 1971 and 1972.
Other memorable Pride standards included are Is Anybody
Goin' To San Antone, Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town,
Roll On Mississippi, I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again, Someone
Loves You Honey, When I Stop Leaving I'll Be Gone, Does My
Ring Hurt Your Finger, Burgers and Fries and You're
So Good When You're Bad.
You can help us return to Channel 31 for our 21st series over
the summer festival season by becoming a member of Nu Country
TV or renewing your membership.
Paul
Thorn live at Hallam Hotel - photo by John Karpik
Former
Mississippi boxing champion Paul Thorn performed two Victorian
concerts after debuting on Nu Country TV with the video for
his sixth album title track Pimps & Preachers.
Thorn, 48, and father of two daughters, wowed small but enthusiastic
audiences at Northcote Social Club and Hallam Hotel as the garden
state froze under a full moon.
Out web mistress Anne Sydenham headed a Nu Country contingent
to Beer Can Hill in Northcote where Thorn was supported by Dan
Waters and greeted fellow sporting icon songwriter and former
Nu Country TV host Mike Brady of Up There Cazaly fame.
Thorn performed his 1997 album title track Hammer & Nail
about his 1988 TV bout in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with world
champion middleweight boxer Roberto Duran.
Anne's photographs and review appear in our concerts section.
Former Nu Country treasurer John Karpik ventured north from
Blairgowrie to Hallam where he photographed Thorn and local
support act Lachlan Bryan.
Thorn appeared just 50 miles west of where Drouin born Aussie
born world champion boxer Lionel Rose first threw a punch and
Geelong footy champion Gary Ablett Sr. kicked his first goals.
Oklahoma
country star Blake Shelton topped Billboard charts on debut
with his huge selling 8th album Based On A True Story on
the eve of the 20th series of Nu Country TV.
The popular judge on the U.S. version of The Voice recruited
the Pistol Annies - fronted by his singing spouse Miranda Lambert
for the energized album entree Boys 'Round Here.
Shelton, 36, also showcased his TV show protégé
Gwen Sebastian for bucolic ballad My Eyes.
Warner Music promotions ace Karen McClellan has donated copies
of the CD to Nu Country TV to promote the gala series from June-September
on Channel 31.
You
can help keep us on air for our 21st series in summer by becoming
members or renewing your membership.
We also have new video clips by Blake, Miranda, The Pistol Annies,
Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson and many more.
We'll also have exciting news soon on major international tours
during spring.
A
group of artists from diverse genres have combined to record
a tribute disc to late singing actor John Denver.
And we have copies of The Music Is You for renewing or
new Nu Country TV members on the eve of our Series #20 on C
31 in June.
Denver died at 53 when his small Long EZ plane crashed at Pacific
Grove on Monterrey Bay on October 12, 1997.
Two decades earlier Denver starred with singer-comedian George
Burns in comedic movie Oh, God!
Ironically,
Denver had a love hate relationship with his father - a hard-drinking
former Air Force test pilot.
He taught Denver how to fly and the singer spent millions on
vintage biplanes, a Lear jet, two Cessna 210s, a Christen Eagle
aerobatic plane and the fatal flight plane.
It was a cruel twist of fate that the man who wrote Leaving
on a Jet Plane - once a theme song for United Airlines -
died in a self-piloted plane crash.
Prolific songwriter Bill Danoff wrote liner notes for the album
featuring acts diverse as Old Crow Medicine Show, Train, My
Morning Jacket, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams
and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Singing
actor Shotgun Willie Nelson celebrated his 80th birthday by
donating proceeds from a star studded concert to the Fire Fighters
and Emergency Services volunteers who perished in the West fertiliser
plant explosion.
Funds go to the fire department at West - five miles from neighbouring
town Abbott where Willie and elder sister-pianist Bobbie were
raised more than 80 years ago.
Willie's record company Sony has extended his generosity to
Nu Country TV that returns to air on
C 31 from June-September for our 20th Series.
You
can help keep Nu Country TV on air by becoming members - we
will reward you with a copy of Willie's acclaimed 61st studio
album Let's Face The Music And Dance.
Willie
and survivors of his Family Band released the album on the
eve of his 80th birthday - April 30.
Loyal members can also win the CD and other prizes - including
DVDS - by renewing your memberships.
We also have video clips by Willie and other artists that
we will feature in our winter series.
David
Olney & Sergio Webb live at Caravan Music Club
We
celebrate the peak of the autumn touring circuit with our web
mistress Anne Sydenham's exclusive review of Nashville singer-songwriter
legend Dave Olney and Sergio Webb.
The duo, supported by local singer-songwriter Bill Jackson and
Pete Fidler, wowed music lovers at the rustic Caravan Music
Club in Oakleigh.
New Jersey acoustic country trio Red Molly blew away the capacity
crowds at the 37th Port Fairy Folk Festival with artist of the
year Suzannah Espie, Shane Howard and other Aussie artists.
They were complimented by veteran folkie Arlo Guthrie and Texan
soul and R & B stars Ruthie Foster and Eugene Hideaway Bridges.
If
you miss Nu Country TV live on C 31 Saturday 10.30 pm or Monday
2.30 pm and midnight and Thursday at midnight there is another
way to see the show at your leisure.
Visit the Channel 31 programs web page and Click on the Nu Country
logo and follow the link to Catch-Up TV.
The
multi Grammy Award winning Georgian Zac Brown Band is touring
here in March.
They are the latest addition to the inaugural Deni Blues
& Roots Muster at Deniliquin on March 30 and 31.
Other country flavoured acts include Chris Isaak and Tony Joe
White.
We have the band's new video Goodbye In Her Eyes - replete
with circus characters - that we feature in Series #19 of Nu
Country TV.
Whittlesea and Bunyip festivals return in February and Wandong
and 37th Port Fairy Folk Festival with Arlo Guthrie in March.
We're also promoting CMC Rocks The Hunter - hottest three-day
festival in Aussie country music.
In 2013 Rascal Flatts, David Lee Murphy, Band Perry, Billy Ray
Cyrus, Chris Young, Adam Brand, Corb Lund & Hurtin' Albertans
Catherine Britt, Amber Lawrence, Morgan Evans, Bluegrass All-Stars,
Bob Corbett, Doug Bruce & Tailgaters, Craig Morrison, Wolfe
Bros, LeGarde Twins & Aleyce Simmonds have already been
announced.
You
can also follow Nu Country TV on Facebook - courtesy of gig guide
collator Annie Christophers and our loyal public officer Denise
Kuhl.
They will post photos of their overseas festival tours and local
concerts they attend.
You can interact live with them at Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/NuCountryTV
The
Nu Country TV show has been added to the C 31 streaming list.
Nu Country TV also returned to C 31 - Digital 44 - in South Australia
on Thursday October 11.
The far-reaching Adelaide station screens Series #18 at 9.30 pm
each Thursday.
FRANK
DYCUS RIP @ 72
Revered
songwriter Frank Dycus died on Friday November 23 at the age
of 72 in Vidalia, Georgia.
The Dycus hit treasure trove included George Strait's Unwound
and Marina del Ray and George Jones' I Don't Need
Your Rockin' Chair.
"He was a great writer, who came from nothing and carved
out a life for himself through his own thoughtfulness,"
said Jim Lauderdale, who wrote Mark Chesnutt's No. 1 country
hit Gonna Get a Life with Dycus.
"He was a real hillbilly poet, with a great sensibility
and a way with words," added Lauderdale making his fourth
Australian tour in January with fellow singer-songwriter Elizabeth
Cook.
"He was a wise person and a deep thinker. I'm sure going
to miss him, and a lot of other people will, too."
Born Marion Franklin Dycus in Hardmoney, Kentucky, Frank was
one of 13 children in his family.
He wrote poems as a teenager and learned guitar, playing club
dates as a teenager.
Frank hitchhiked to California at age 15, reconsidered and headed
back to Kentucky, then left Kentucky for a seven-year stint
in the Air Force.
Dycus came to Nashville in the early 1960s but moved to Kansas
where he worked for Boeing and hosted a radio show.
He came back to Nashville in 1967 and worked as a songwriter
at Pete Drake's publishing company.
His first hit was in 1970 when George Morgan took Lilacs
and Fire to No. 17 on the Billboard country singles chart.
Dycus wrote Unwound and Marina del Ray - both
top 10 country hits for Strait - with Dean Dillon in the early
1980s.
He had heart bypass surgery in 1987 and spent more than two
years away from songwriting, but he returned in earnest in the
1990s.
Jones' 1992 recording of I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair
was not a top 20 hit but remained in Jones' concert set list.
In the 1990s, Dycus struck up a songwriting partnership with
Lauderdale that resulted in chart hits for Gary Allan and Doug
Supernaw and Dycus' only chart-topping single, Chesnutt's
Gonna Get a Life.
Texan
troubadour Hayes Carll and Hunter Valley chanteuse Kirsty Akers
excelled in their midnight rodeo at Northcote Social Club in
August.
Hayes and Kirsty peaked with their live duet on Carll's latest
Americana chart hit Another Like You.
Carll proved why he was the inspiration for one of the characters
in Tim McGraw-Gwyneth Paltrow movie Country Strong.
The singer, 36, performed songs from the movie and all discs
including fourth album KMAG YOYO & Other American
Stories.
Carll's songwriting partner Ray Wylie Hubbard kicked off our
Behind Bars concert segment in July.
This week in the Series #18 finale fellow Texan Shotgun Willie
Nelson performs a live version of his gospel classic Roll Me
Up And Smoke Me When I Die in Houston.
HOW
TO WIN CARRIE UNDERWOOD CD
CHECK OUT OUR CARRIE PALAIS CONCERT REVIEW
Carrie
Underwood performed to a near capacity crowd at St Kilda Palais
after headlining the premiere of Nu Country TV Series #18 on
Wednesday June 6.
The five-time Grammy winner and septet band performed many songs
from her huge selling fourth album Blown Away during
her 23-tune set.
We celebrate Oklahoma born Carrie's success with giveaways of
Blown Away.
The singer wrote eight of the 14 songs on her album that features
tunes exploring murder of a cheater, domestic abuse revenge
and a gun-toting gal from the Wild West.
Shooter
Jennings plans to tour Australia in 2013 to promote his seventh
album Family Man.
Jennings, 33, and actress fiancee Drea De Matteo appear in three
videos from his new CD.
The videos, also featuring their daughter Alabama Gypsy Rose,
a black dog and snakes, will air on Series #18 of Nu Country
TV on C 31 in June.
Shooter has also made a satirical video of faux country outlaws
cashing in on his late dad Waylon, Willie, Johnny Cash and Hank
Williams.
We will highlight Shooter's video Outlaw You when we return.
Jennings also spills the beans on murder, incest, gay cousins
and cheating in his clan in the controversial new song Southern
Family Anthem in his exclusive interview with Nu Country TV.
Shooter also reveals he is working on a movie about Waylon who
died at 64 on February 13, 2002, and producing a new album for
his mother Jessi Colter.
The singer also tells how he finished his eighth album The Other
Life so it will be out here for his tour.
Thanks
to all our new members and renewing members who supported
us with our free Tim McGraw and Faith Hill tickets.
Promoters Chugg Entertainment and Rob Potts Entertainment
Edge gave us special ticket packages - each worth more than
$400 - as sponsors of our TV show.
This was the first time the two singing actors-superstars
played concerts together including Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne
and CMC Rocks The Hunter Festival.
Meanwhile we still have Tim's acclaimed 11th album Emotional
Traffic for new members and renewing members.
We
have even more exciting news - Dierks Bentley's seventh album
Home on the eve of his second Australian tour.
EMI promotions ace Bianca O'Neill gave us Dierks huge selling
album prizes shortly before it debuted at #1 on Billboard
on its U.S. release
The album features the Bentley hits Am I The Only One,
Gonna Die Young and his duet with Karen Fairchild of Little
Big Town on When You Gonna Come Around.
Bentley
wrote the title song with Brett Beavers and Dan Wilson about
the shooting of Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords by a mass murderer
in their home state Arizona.
U.S.
President Barack Obama has also adopted Home - featuring
expat Adelaide guitarist Jedd Hughes - as a personal song
in his new campaign.
Bentley, 36, arrived in Nashville at 19 and had big hits before
releasing his acclaimed bluegrass album Up On The Ridge.
All you have to do to win Home is become a member of
Nu Country TV or renew your membership.
Nu
Country TV returned to air on C 31 on Wednesday 7 December at
10.00 pm for its 17th season with a batch of new prizes to keep
the dingoes from our door.
We preview our new series with exciting tidings about artists
we will feature.
And as a bonus EMI Records Promotions ace Bianca O'Neill has
donated copies of the hot new albums by young gun Eric Church
and revered Aussie icon Slim Dusty.
Eric, 34, topped the all genre Billboard Top 200 on debut with
his third album Chief.
Church, a controversial North Carolina nouveau outlaw also has
a new video clip.
Dusty, whose legacy is carried on by his widow Joy McKean and
talented offspring Anne Kirkpatrick and Dr David Kirkpatrick,
has a collectors' item CD I've Been There And Back Again.
Joy is also honouring Slim, who died at 76 on September 19,
2003, with her accompanying book of the same title about their
50-year marriage and their songs, groundbreaking travels and
photos.
You can help Nu Country TV survive and triumph on C 31 and win
one of these invaluable CDS as a token of our appreciation.
Nu
Country TV beams into Phillip Island, West Gippsland, Geelong &
the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula, north to Mt Macedon and east
to the Dandenongs.
We're
also featured on C 31 in South Australia - home state of expatriate
Greencards multi-instrumentalist Kym Warner and Nashville recording
artist Jedd Hughes.
Golden
Guitar winner Beccy Cole, Jake Nickolai and 2000 Star Maker winner
Cat Southern also earned their stripes in home state South Australia.
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