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WELCOME TO NU COUNTRY TV
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 our
Diary.
CLICK
HERE for the Preview of Episode 9 - Series 17
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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
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WYNONNA
JUDD, TRACY LAWRENCE & SHERRIE AUSTIN
NEW ADDITIONS TO CMC ROCKS THE HUNTER BILL
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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.
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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
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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.
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WIN
AIR SUPPLY RUSSELL HITCHCOCK CD & DVD
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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.
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TAYLOR
SWIFT TRIPLE TREAT - WIN CDS
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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NU
COUNTRY TV IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA & QUEENSLAND
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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/
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HOW
TO WATCH NU COUNTRY TV LIVE ON THE WEB
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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
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WIN
TAYLOR SWIFT CDS
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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. |
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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.
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NU
COUNTRY TV IN GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS
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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. |
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Here for our exclusive interview about why expatriate Australian
guitarist Jedd Hughes sings and plays on Ingram's new album.
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WIN
SLIM DUSTY CLASSIC BOX SET
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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
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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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Nu
Country TV -
C31
VICTORIA
SERIES 17
Starts WEDNESDAY
7 DECEMBER 2011 @ 10.00 PM
REPEATED
2.00 AM TUES
1.30 AM FRI
Program
Details
C 31 QUEENSLAND
Weekly Time Slots
Wed - 9.00 pm
Fri - 10.30 pm
C31 South Australia
Returns
Tuesday April 5
at 8:30
Repeated
3:00 pm Friday
VIEW
SELECTED
SHOWS ONLINE
ON C31
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
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