MARCH
TOURISTS TOBY AND KELLIE HEADLINE
NU COUNTRY TV DECEMBER 11
Kellie
Pickler
Oklahoma
superstar Toby Keith and fellow March debutante tourist
Kellie Pickler headline Nu Country TV this Wednesday December
11 at 10 pm on Channel 31.
Keith, joined by frequent Australian visitor Jimmy Buffett
in the video for Too Drunk To Karaoke, debuts at
Rod Laver Arena on March 19 after performing the 5th CMC
Rocks The Hunter festival with a star studded cast including
Pickler and Gretchen Wilson.
Jim Lauderdale, also returning to CMC Rocks The Hunter,
appears in a cameo in Pistol Annies latest video Hush-Hush.
Western swing band Asleep At The Wheel returns to Behind
Bars in the show edited and filmed by Laith Graham and repeated
Monday 5.30 am and 2.30 pm and
Tuesday 1.00 am.
Tamworth
singer Ashleigh Dallas debuts with a video for her song
Me featuring her playing fiddle and mandolin and
singing in her bedroom from her acclaimed album Dancing
With A Ghost.
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 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.
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."
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 -
45 Ferndale Rd, Glen Iris 3146
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.
The
ABC has added Dig Country to its on-line jazz and roots radio
stations.
Adelaide bluegrass and roots country expert Richard Porteous
and peers have created a joyous sound that is reminiscent
of Nu Country FM in its halcyon days.
Midweek
Country INRFM 96.5FM Wednesday between 7pm & 9pm.
The presenters alternate each week, they are Barry Bosnich
& John Worth. Now
streaming live
COLIN
WEIDNER
Texas Time Travellin North West FM Glenroy 98.9 Saturday
6 p m - 8 p m
FRANK MCHUGH
That's Country
North West FM Glenroy 98.9 Sunday
12pm - 3 p m
IAN
EDWARDS
playing a mix of Oz, US, Bluegrass Western swing & everything
in between, on the Double Clutchin Weasel Show On 88.6FM
Wednesday night
@ 10.00PM - 12.00pm
GEELONG
COUNTRY 89.3 FM - 24 hours non-stop country
Stereo
974 FM - Bob Taylor 9 am - 6 pm week days. Truck Stop Country Rod Boyd - midnight to dawn. Now
streaming live
BIG
PETE WINDLE FRIDAY
3MDR 97.1FM
9.30 pm to midnight
[full on country] Now streaming live
5
Foot High And Rising with Myles O'Neil Shaw PBS - 106.7
FM - Monday 1-3 p m.
3RPP
Mornington Peninsula Radio
Monday 7-9pm Country Mix with Ken Brown
Saturday 7-9pm Kool Country
Barbara Kuhl
Tuesday & Thursday Breakfast 6-9am Wild Western Swing and Wicked Wacky Country - Steve Burley
Sunday 4am-7am BJs Country Music John Burrows
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