WELCOME TO NU COUNTRY TV

NU COUNTRY TV SERIES 13 - DECEMBER 12

Nu Country TV returned to air on Saturday December 12 at 9. 30pm - for Series #13 - on the revamped Victorian C 31 channel.

Lee Kernaghan features in Episode 9 Series 13, 13 February 2010 Click here for the preview

The series features hosting roles by country queen Melinda Schneider and former Nu Country FM disc jockeys Mid Pacific Bob Olson and Heather Rutherford. We will feature new videos by major touring artists - Texans Jack Ingram and Lyle Lovett, Taylor Swift, Gloriana, Phil Vassar and Keith Urban. We'll also premiere new clips by major national artists playing the festival circuit. They include Kasey Chambers, Troy Cassar-Daley, Lee Kernaghan, McClymonts, Felicity, Catherine Britt, Adam Harvey, Adam Brand, Paul Costa, Doug Bruce, Matt Joe Gow and Amber Lawrence.

The show previews festivals diverse as CMC Rocks The Snowy at Thredbo, Port Fairy, Whittlesea, Brunswick, Bunyip, Wandong, Apollo Bay and Byron Bay. Mid Pacific Bob Olson's long time videographer and fellow academic Peter Staubli steps into the editing chair from his new home on the NSW south coast. Peter takes over from long time editor Kerry Richardson, enjoying a well-deserved break on the north west coast of Tasmania. The show will be repeated during the week in its summer season and broadcast online at the C 31 home page. C 31 is now in the process of upgrading to digital transmission - a hefty boost to its viewer base.

NANCI GRIFFITH AND PHIL VASSAR ROCK THE SNOWY

We welcome back the CMC Rocks The Snowy festival as the sponsor of Series #13 of Nu Country TV. Revered Texan troubadour Nanci Griffith and Virginia born pianist and hit singer-songwriter Phil Vassar join Texan Jack Ingram as the international headliners on the Thredbo bill on March 5 and 6. Griffith. 56, is touring to promote her 19th album The Loving Kind with colourful tour manager Phil Kaufman - author of autobiography Road Mangler Deluxe. Kaufman scored international infamy when he stole and cremated Gram Parsons' body in 1973. He reunited with fellow Australian body snatcher Michael Martin on one of his tours here with Emmylou Harris. Vassar, now 45, recently released his fifth album Travelling Circus that features a video with Desperate Housewives star Jamie Denton. Denton is the childhood sweetheart of recently wed singer Deana Carter who played Thredbo last year. The two-day festival also features Canadian Doc Walker, Kasey Chambers, Lee and Tania Kernaghan, Guy Sebastian, Adam Harvey, Richard Clapton, Amber Lawrence, Kirsty Lee Akers, Jetty Road, Steve Forde, Wilson Pickers, Sinead Burgess, Victoria Baillie, Dan Sultan and other major Australian artists. CMC Rocks The Snowy is staged in a large scenic amphitheatre in the foothills of the scenic Thredbo village. The promoters Michael Chugg Entertainment and Rob Potts Entertainment Edge have offered Nu Country members a pair of tickets to the festival. Details will be announced here later. CLICK HERE for Tonkgirl's Gig Guide for the full line-up.

WIN TAYLOR SWIFT CDS

We also celebrate teen sensation Taylor Swift's return tour of Australia in February with more CD giveaways. The teen tonker's record company Universal gave us copies of huge selling second album Fearless for viewers who become Nu Country TV members. Current members who renew their membership are also eligible to take Taylor home with them. Swift, who turned 19 in December, 2008, was one of the headliners of the CMC Rocks The Snowy festival on March 6 and 7.

Swift exploded by selling 3.5 million copies of self-titled debut CD and more than six million units of second CD Fearless. She wrote or co-wrote all her hits and co-produced Fearless that featured 13 of her original songs. CLICK HERE for our membership page to learn how you can win Taylor Swift by joining us in promoting the most popular genre of the new millennia.

WIN ROSANNE CASH CD

We also have Rosanne Cash's acclaimed new EMI CD The List - new versions of classics from a list given to her by late father Johnny when she was 18 in 1973. Guests on the Cash collection include Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright. Cash's second husband John Leventhal produced the CD for Manhattan Records. It features songs dating back to the Carter Family, the Hanks - Williams, Snow and Cochran - Harlan Howard, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan.

CLICK HERE for our membership page to learn how to win Rosanne's CD. CLICK HERE for a review in our Diary.

NU COUNTRY TV IN GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS

Nu Country TV joined Texan country star Jack Ingram in the Guinness Book of Records for most consecutive interviews in 24 hours. Ingram, 38, conducted 215 interviews on August 25-26 to promote his 13th album Big Dreams & High Hopes on Big Machine Records. The rocking country star featured heavily on Nu Country FM in our radio era. This time Nu Country TV producer David Dawson interviewed Jack for our TV show web page, Stereo 974 FM and Melbourne music magazine Beat.

Click Here for our exclusive interview about why expatriate Australian guitarist Jedd Hughes sings and plays on Ingram's new album.

DIERKS BENTLEY WOWS AUSTRALIA
WIN HIS CD

Arizona born chart topper Dierks Bentley won wide acclaim on his debut Australian tour with Brooks & Dunn in May. Now EMI Records has provided Nu Country TV with the chart topping star's fifth CD Feel The Fire. Feel The Fire has already produced two U.S. #1 hits - the title track and Sideways. Bentley, 33, has scored seven #1 U.S hits since leaving Phoenix for Nashville as a teenager. The singer trails only expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban as most played male artist on U.S. country radio this year. Bentley and his band plan a second Australian tour to maximise their popularity.

He has also recorded duets with prolific Grammy winner Alison Krauss and Texan chanteuse Patty Griffin. CLICK HERE for our membership page to learn how you can win Dierks hot CD.

WIN SLIM DUSTY CLASSIC BOX SET

We have more good news for viewers - EMI Records has given us an invaluable collectors' item - a brace of the 4 Box sets by late Australian country legend Slim Dusty. Sittin' On 80 features a lost, classic track discovered by Slim's widow Joy McKean. Joy found Give Me Room from a 1997 recording at their home studio Columbia Lane. It was written by one of Slim's favourite writers John Dohling - outback station hand and good mate who passed away in November last year.

Sadly he never heard the final version of Slim's recording of his classic trucking song. It has now been released as a single and included on Sittin' On 80. Slim's legendary Travelling Country Band played on the song that has been digitally re-mastered by Australia's mastering guru Don Bartley. All you have to do to win Slim's 4 CD Box set is become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership. It only costs $20 and includes postage. Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order made out to Nu Country Music.

RODNEY CROWELL TRIUMPH

Texan troubadour Rodney Crowell and his hot guitarist Will Kimbrough won wide acclaim on their Australian tour. The duo wowed fans at Byron Bay, Sydney and Canberra before performing in Victoria. We feature the video for Crowell's 20th album title track Sex & Gasoline in Series #12. And, because of riveting reaction to their performance of Cherry Bombs hit It's Hard To Kiss The Lips That Chewed Your Ass All Day Long we have reprised the video for that song. The Cherry Bombs video features Crowell and Oklahoma born star Vince Gill in drag.

Rodney Crowell at Prince of Wales Photo by Anne Sydenham

CLICK HERE for Anne Sydenham's review of the Crowell-Kimbrough concert at the Prince Of Wales in St Kilda. CLICK HERE for Anne's review of Lucinda Williams at Hamer Hall. CLICK HERE for Anne's review of Hot Club Of Cowtown.

Kevin Welch has left a rare invaluable gift on his 12th Australian tour - an evocative song inspired by the blazing tragedy of the Victorian bushfires. California born Welch, 53 and father of two, was so moved by the horrific holocaust he wrote his song Marysville within days of his arrival. Kevin and bandmates Kieran Kane and Fats Kaplin rushed into the Salt Studio in East Brighton and recorded it for St Vincent de Paul bushfire relief CD After The Fire. A Vinnies documentary crew filmed Kevin and band recording in the studio operated by Peter Frawley. The trio performed the song live in concert and on radio and volunteered it through Shock Records executive Dave Laing.

Vinnies Victorian strategic marketing and fund raising manager Carol Taylor phoned long time promoter Rob Hall who helped arrange the recording in a break between concerts. Carol also enlisted Killarney singer-songwriter Shane Howard who wrote his new tune Carry Me for the CD. Howard and Sara Storer debuted the song at the Churchill fire benefit on Saturday February 14. The singer then recorded his song, with a little help from his friends, at his home studio. The Welch song was the first single from a CD that also features Country Paydirt singer Ross Buchanan, who lost a young son and daughter in the Kinglake fire. Buchanan fronted a trio with Whittlesea Country Music Festival organiser Vin Anderson, on harmonica, and recorded his song Salty Tears at Salt. Ross won a huge audience when he performed his song on the Today Show on the Nine Network. Joe Camilleri, Renee Geyer, Tiddas singer Sally Dastey, Brian Mannix and other artists are also on After The Fire. After The Fire is available in JB Hi-Fi and other record stores and Vinnies shops in Victoria. You can also listen to the Kevin Welch penned Marysville live and buy the CD online at http://www.myspace.com/afterthefirecd http://www.myspace.com/vinniesaustralia CLICK HERE for the complete track listing in the Diary. CLICK HERE for Anne Sydenham's review of Kane Welch Kaplin concert at the Corner Hotel, Richmond.

NU COUNTRY TV LIVE ON THE WEB

We have good news for Nu Country TV fans here and overseas.

Select episodes of the show are now available online at the web page of the Victorian mother ship C 31.

That's a bonus for Peter Hosking - our founder and executive producer-in-exile in Prague - and international artists touring Australia in 2008.

The episodes available for viewing online are the latest episodes of Series 12, 2009.

Click here to access Nu Country live on the web.

NU COUNTRY TV LAUNCHES IN QUEENSLAND

We have more exciting news for country music lovers - Nu Country TV premiered in Queensland in August.

The show debuted on C 31 in Brisbane on Thursday August 16 at 8 p m and repeats on Fridays at 9.30 am.

C 31 in Queensland will reach back to Series #1, created in the spring of 2003, as its entrée.

It will then use more recent episodes of the show - brainchild of celebrated Melbourne actor and voiceover maestro Peter Hosking.

Country music lovers in Queensland join a vast cast in Victoria and South Australia as viewers of the show that also screens twice weekly on the Family Television Network in New Zealand.

NU COUNTRY TV NEWS ON MELBOURNE RADIO

Nu Country TV producer David Dawson joins Stereo 974 personality Bob Taylor
on air each Monday and Thursday at 10 am to deliver the latest music news.

The duo breaks the latest country music and movie stories from here and overseas.

These are good tidings for listeners to the country oasis in the hits and memories and pop commercial radio desert of Melbourne.

The Brooklyn community radio station now broadcasts country music from 9 am to 6 pm on weekdays.

Stereo 974 experienced a huge increase in listeners since veteran radio personality and vocal coach Taylor replaced pop with country music in his shows.

Taylor, renowned for his DJ training and production at Nu Country FM in its halcyon days, practices what he preaches - back announcing of songs and artists.

The nine-hour country oasis compliments Stereo 974 manager Rod Boyd's Truck Stop from midnight-dawn on weekdays and midnight-8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Programmer Taylor will update the station's music daily and is reached by email at
bob@stereo974.com

The strength of the Stereo 974 FM signal means country music will now be heard 15 hours a day throughout the metropolitan area.

Geelong listeners will also have even greater choice - both Stereo 974 that penetrates the eastern extremities of Corio Bay - and Geelong Country FM.

And, as a bonus for listeners beyond Melbourne and Geelong, the country music is also accessed live on the Internet.

Further info - http://www.stereo974.com/

GEELONG NOW HOT COUNTRY - 89.3 FM

We have good news for the thousands of listeners who flood the Nu Country web page with queries about Geelong Country - 89.3 FM.

The station has been re-named Hot Country and is part of a network that includes 3 NSW stations - AM 1215 Southern Highlands, FM 101.1 Nowra and FM 105.3 in Wollongong.

Equally importantly queries about songs played can be directed to the network web page HOTCOUNTRY.NET.AU

"We also have plans to stream the service on line shortly," says Greg Parkinson of Hot Country, "this will also give listeners details of which songs have been played."

Further info email - hotcountry@commudio.com

music@hotcountry.net.au

NU COUNTRY TV ALSO IN NEW ZEALAND

Nu Country TV expanded into Rotorua in New Zealand after debuting on Family TV in Waikato, boosting its viewers by 60,000.

The popular show is screened on Family TV in Rotorua on Monday at 10.30 a m, Friday at 11.30 a m and Saturday at 10 p m.

Nu Country TV has become the only show of its genre on New Zealand TV.

MORE VIDEO CLIPS NEEDED

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.

This means 750,000 viewers plus for videos, interviews and live gig footage weekly.

Please send your video clips in mini-DV or DVD-R format to Nu Country - P O Box 625, Northcote - 3070.

We'll keep you up to date on country music through our concert reviews, features in our Diary and tours in TonkGirl's Gig Guide.

CLICK HERE for our Gig Guide.
And CLICK HERE for our live concert reviews.