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NU COUNTRY TV SERIES #17
DECEMBER 7 RETURN - NEW PRIZES


Eric Church
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 guns Eric Church and Luke Bryan and revered Aussie icon Slim Dusty.

Eric, 34, and Luke, 35, topped the all genre Billboard Top 200 on debut with their third albums Chief and Tailgates And Tanlines.

Church, a controversial North Carolina nouveau outlaw, and Georgian hunk Bryan also have new video clips.

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.

CLICK HERE for our membership page to check out your latest rewards for keeping our flame burning bright.

CLICK HERE for an exclusive Eric Church feature in o
ur Diary.

CLICK HERE for the Preview of Episode 9 - Series 17

AUSTRALIAN AUTUMN TOURS BATTLE

ELI YOUNG BAND JOIN TIM & FAITH


Eli Young Band
Superstar singing actor Tim McGraw and wife Faith Hill added chart-topping Texans - the Eli Young Band - to their national tour in March.

Faith and Tim play capital city concerts including March 20 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.

Eli Young topped U.S. charts this week with Crazy Girl written by Lee Brice - former partner of expat Port Douglas singer and Starmaker winner Kylie Sackley.

Sackley also wrote Sunshine And Summertime - entrée song on Faith's sixth disc Fireflies that sold 329,000 copies on debut when it topped pop and country charts.

Eli Young join expatriate Australian songwriting partner Jedd Hughes on its 2012 debut Australian tour.

The band shares billing with guitarist-singer Hughes at the second CMC Rocks The Hunter Festival at the Hope Estate from March 16-18.

The highly competitive festival and tour circuit warmed up with singing actors Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift adding extra concert dates.

Eli Young, Jim Lauderdale and Bentley, U.S. acts Colt Ford and Craig Campbell also play CMC Rocks The Hunter festival.

Chad Morgan I'm Not Dead Yet movie narrator Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses and Kernaghan have also been added to the bill.

McGraw, 44 and veteran of 11 movies, is making his second Australian tour after debut of his three latest films The Blind Side, Country Strong and Dirty Girl.

It will be the first official tour for Hill who joined McGraw on stage in Sydney on September 21, 2010, for a duet on I Need You to celebrate her 44TH birthday.

Both artists, parents of three daughters, are expected to have new albums released here before their return.

McGraw's 11th album Emotional Traffic - his last for Curb Records - was finished almost a year ago.

Tim and Faith replace Georgian superstar Alan Jackson as the CMC fest headliner for promoters Michael Chugg and Rob Potts.

CLICK HERE for an exclusive interview with Eli Young Band bassist Jon Jones in the Diary

WYNONNA JUDD, TRACY LAWRENCE & SHERRIE AUSTIN

NEW ADDITIONS TO CMC ROCKS THE HUNTER BILL

 

Kentucky born chanteuse Wynonna Judd and Texan Tracy Lawrence have been added to CMC Rocks The Hunter.

It will be first Australian sojourn for five-time Grammy winner Wynonna - who has sold 30 million albums as a solo artist - and with mother Naomi as The Judds.

Judd and Lawrence, who has had 18 #1 country hits, were both staples on our radio station in its halcyon era.

Expatriate Australians Sherrie Austin and O'Shea have also been added to the spectacular.

Austin, nee Kren, singing actress since her teens, has just released fifth album Circus Girl - her first since 2003.

Sherrie, now 41, also stars with gay country hit writer Shane Stevens in Sundance Channel reality series, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, filmed on location in Nashville.

O'Shea - Dalby born Mark and Adelaide raided singing spouse Jay - play the 40th Tamworth Country Music Festival before heading south to the Hunter Valley.

They join Eli Young, bluegrass icon Jim Lauderdale and fellow U.S. acts Dierks Bentley, Colt Ford and Craig Campbell on a bill featuring Chad Morgan I'm Not Dead Yet movie narrator Tex Perkins & Dark Horses, Lee Kernaghan, Catherine Britt and Beccy Cole.

McGraw, 44 and veteran of 11 movies, is making his second Australian tour after debut of his three latest films The Blind Side, Country Strong and Dirty Girl.

It will be the first official tour for Hill who performed new single Come Home on the recent 45th CMA Awards.

Both artists, parents of three daughters, are expected to have new albums released here before their return.

McGraw's 11th album Emotional Traffic - his last for Curb Records - was released on January 24.

Tim and Faith replace Georgian superstar Alan Jackson as the CMC fest headliner for promoters Michael Chugg and Rob Potts.

CLICK HERE for an exclusive interview with Eli Young Band bassist Jon Jones in the Diary.

BENTLEY-KERNAGHAN JOINT TOUR

Arizona born country bluegrass star Dierks Bentley and Aussie country king Lee Kernaghan also join forces on a national tour in March.

Bentley is touring to promote his bluegrass album Up On The Ridge and his #1 hit Am I The Only One - title track of his seventh album released in November.

Kernaghan and singing spouse Robyn have also released a new video for their single Fire from the deluxe double CD of Lee's 9th album Planet Country.

Dierks, who toured here with Brooks & Dunn in 2009, and Lee also have a joint video for their song Scars from Planet Country.

CLICK HERE for a Bentley interview from The Diary on April 26, 2009.
CLICK HERE for a Kernaghan interview from The Diary on November 10, 2009.

WIN AIR SUPPLY RUSSELL HITCHCOCK CD & DVD

We are proud to offer the new Tennessee CD and DVD by former Air Supply singer Russell Hitchcock.

Russell, 62 and born in Melbourne, recorded the 20 track double CD in Nashville with acclaimed producer Rob Rappaport.

Hitchcock and Graham Russell fronted international chart topping band Air Supply from 1976.

Here is your chance to soak up the countrified vocals of Hitchcock and A team session singer Wes Hightower.
The double CD features famed Music Row session players diverse as pedal steel guitarists Robby Turner, Dan Dugmore and Sonny Garrish and violinists Rob Hajacos and Larry Franklin.

All you have to do to win this collectors' item CD and DVD featuring five video clips and an exclusive interview is either become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership.

CLICK HERE for our membership page for full details.

TAYLOR SWIFT TRIPLE TREAT - WIN CDS

When Taylor Swift first toured here for Chugg and Potts in 2009 she was a mere teenager.

Now, two tours and 20 million albums later, she has a brace of Grammy Awards and diverse prestige trophies to celebrate international success.

Swift, a prolific writer, graduated from acting in big budget video clips to movies and marketing her Wonderstuck perfume.

She appeared in Myley Cyrus movie Hanna Montana, Valentines Day, and One Night With You and is to be the animated voice of Audrey in The Lorax.

Swift, now 21, was also cast as Haley Jones in the 2009 Turn, Turn, Turn episode of CSI and appeared in the Dish Nation show this year.

Taylor debuted here with Arkansas star Joe Nichols, Old Crow Medicine Show and Deanna Carter CMC Rocks The Snowy festival at Thredbo.

But, now with veteran Melbourne promoter Michael Coppel, who also toured Texan singing actor Lyle Lovett, she is making hay again in the capital cities on her Speak Now world tour.

The superstars will be competing for the country and roots music festival loot when the casts of the Port Fairy, Byron Bay, Apollo Bay, Wandong, Whittlesea, Red Hill and other festivals are announced.

CLICK HERE for the tour dates of Swift, McGraw and Hill in Tonkgirl's Gig Guide.

THE KINKSTER-VAN DYKE PARKS CAUGHT IN THE ACT


Kinky Friedman & Van Dyke Parks with dog - photo by John Karpik
We have a Nu Country TV exclusive - an insider's view of the magical mystery tour by singing Texan crime novelist Kinky Friedman and Van Dyke Parks.

The Kinkster is touring here with famed musician and movie composer Van Dyke Parks - a child film star and adult actor who played on Beach Boys hits including Good Vibrations.

Former Nu Country FM treasurer Kip Karpik joined the duo on their tour and has some exclusive pictures.

We have the Karpik concert photos at The Toff In The Town - not to be confused with their appearance at The Top Of The Town as depicted in St Kilda satirist Fred Negro's Pub comic strip in InPress Magazine.

Karpik also photographed the duo when a deaf dog accompanied them in a performance on David Heard's Acid Country show on PBS-FM.

Kinky and The Texas Jewboys last toured here in 2002 with fellow Texan Billy Joe Shaver.

On their 2000 tour Kinky and Texas Jewboys co-founder Little Jewford headlined a showcase benefit for Nu Country FM after our Beer Can Hill studio burned down in Northcote.

That concert featured a brace of local artists including Negro - designer of our Nu Country FM logo for T-shirts and windcheaters - and his band The Shonky Tonks.
This time Friedman, now being celebrated in the stage musical Becoming Kinky, is touring to promote latest book Heroes Of A Texas Childhood.

The Kinkster read from the book and performed his songs - now subject of two new tribute discs by fellow Texan singing actors Shotgun Willie Nelson and Jesse Dayton.

Friedman, 66, has run for Texas Governor twice - this photo was taken during his 2006 campaign on his campaign bus at a Willie Nelson July 3 picnic at Carl's Corner.

CLICK HERE to read our Diary feature on the Kinky-Van Dyke tour.

CLICK HERE to read our latest interview with the legend who has been a White House guest of President Bill Clinton and George Dubya Bush.

PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL #35


Shane Nicholson live at Port Fairy
We celebrated the 35th Port Fairy folk festival on the March long weekend with an in depth feature on the colourful characters and their music.

Nu Country TV has an exclusive insight into one of the newest members of the Victorian Parliament who played in several concerts at the festival.

David O'Brien MLC met his constituents and showed their taxes at work as bassist in Russ Goodear Band's tribute to the septuagenarian Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot.

O'Brien, also one of the organisers of the annual Mt Rouse music festival at Penshurst, is no stranger to country music.

He shares chambers with fellow National Party MLC and former Geelong football star and Fremantle coach Damian Drum whose skills as a country singer were often exposed on the Geelong team bus.

Although O'Brien and Drum are not quite Brooks & Dunn they brighten up proceedings in Spring Street with their love of roots music.

CLICK HERE for our Port Fairy folk festival in the Diary as you await our return to C 31 for our Series #16 in June.

CLICK HERE for our interview with Port Fairy star Shane Nicholson in the Diary.

MIRANDA LAMBERT - THE GOOD NEWS

 

Grammy award winning Texan star Miranda Lambert cancelled her 2010 tour at the 11th hour - because of a respiratory ailment.

But we have good news for fans of Lambert - we have Miranda's award winning fourth album Revolution as a prize for viewers who renew Nu Country TV memberships or become members.

Sony-BMG promotions chief Emma Smith has also given us Miranda's new DVD - Revolution: Live By Candlelight.

The DVD features rare acoustic performances of six songs White Liar, The House That Built Me, Love Song, Heart Like Mine, Love Is Looking At You and Rolling Stones country classic Dead Flowers.

We also have autographed copies of expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban's huge selling 9th CD Get Closer to promote his triumphant return tour here in April with fellow stars Lady Antebellum.

CLICK HERE for details on how to win on our membership page.

NU COUNTRY TV IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA & QUEENSLAND

Nu Country TV returns to air on QCTV 31 in Brisbane in February 2011

Nu Country TV returns to air on C 44 in South Australia - Tuesday April 5 at 8:30 pm - with a repeat at 3:00 pm Friday.

Here is the bookmark for QCTV in Brisbane - http://www.31digital.com.au/

Here is the bookmark for C 34 nee C31 in South Australia. - http://www.c31.com.au/

HOW TO WATCH NU COUNTRY TV LIVE ON THE WEB

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

Select episodes of the show are now available online at the digital 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 2011.

The episodes available for viewing online are the latest episodes of Series 15,
2011.

Visit :
www.c31.org.au/program
And Click on Nu Country TV

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.

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.

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.

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 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


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.

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SHOWS ONLINE
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DIG COUNTRY RADIO

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.

Tune in by visiting Dig Country.

LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO

Other radio avenues include -

David Heard's Acid Country on PBS
106.7 FM
Thursday 3-5.30 PM
Now streaming live

Denise Hylands Twang on RRR 102.7 FM Saturday 2-4 PM
Now streaming live


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