NU COUNTRY RECORD LABEL

We have great news for music fans - the relaunch of the Nu Country Record label.
Nu Country TV has released two CDS on the label - the Dead Livers Greatest Misses and A.P. Johnson's Greatest Hits & Ex-Misses.

The discs, featuring original tunes by the two pioneer outlaw artists, are available again through our web page.

Johnson's album features 15 tracks he wrote well before his premature death in October of 1995 on the eve of a tour by The Highwaymen.

The Johnson disc - recorded in 1982 - featured artwork and photos by former Nu Country treasurer John Karpik and was restored and mastered by Dead Livers dual guitarist and Nu Country technician Rodger Delfos and Rowan Matthews.

The Dead Livers collection features 13 tracks including a duet with Johnson and expatriate Kiwi singer Peter Caulton and a bonus track by the Lamington Brothers. The Dead Livers disc was cut at Richmond Recorders and Yarra Bank Studios in 1979, 1980, 1981and 1982 and later adorned with photos by Karpik.

Both releases are available from Nu Country and The Last Record Store in the inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood - 304 Smith St - Phone 94162000.

Mail order by cheque or money order for $15 - made out to Nu Country - at P.O. Box 625, Northcote, 3070.

You can also buy the Johnson CD for just $10 at our Christmas party at the Bush Inn, West Toorak, on November 29 when the Dead Livers belatedly celebrate their 25th anniversary.

And we have copies of the Dead Livers second CD, Reaching To The Western Sky, for just $20 including postage.

The band will have its debut CD, Greatest Misses, available at the Bush Inn.

You can also buy both Dead Livers albums through their web page -
www.geocities.com/Nashville/6385

A. P. JOHNSON GREATEST HITS AND EX-MISSES

Track Listing

CLICK HERE for an A P Johnson feature.

DEAD LIVERS GREATEST MISSES

Track Listing

DEAD LIVERS REACHING TO THE WESTERN SKY

Track Listing

CLICK HERE for Dead Livers feature.

BARRY & JEWEL COBURN
NU COUNTRY BENEFACTORS

Barry and Jewel on their wedding day

Johnson's CD was recorded at the Yarra Bank studio of famed expatriate Australasian superstar manager, publisher and tour promoter Barry Coburn. Coburn ran the Spurs cowboy bar circuit in Moorabbin, Campbellfield, Canberra and Geelong from 1980-3. He promoted tours of New Zealand by The Eagles and Australian visits by Emmylou Harris, Flying Burrito Brothers and rock acts diverse as Roxy Music and Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. Coburn and wife Jewel - an Australian born Hollywood child and teenage movie star and award winning country singer - also ran management and publishing companies in Melbourne. Among clients were Seekers singer Bruce Woodley and Coburn's fellow expatriate Kiwis Brent Parlane, Peter Caulton and Queenslander A. P. Johnson.

Johnson, former rodeo rider and singing roadie for RCA act Moose Malone was one of many progressive writers in Coburn's South Yarra stable.

One of Johnson's comedy songs, I Love You Just Like A Pie, was also featured in the cult Australian movie Next Of Kin.

Barry and Jewel met at the famed Wandong Country Music festival before eloping to Coburn's South Island hometown of Christchurch and marrying in the chapel of his old school.

Barry co-managed Ms Harris with Eddie Tickner of Byrds fame on his arrival in the U.S. in 1984 and also handled the careers of artists diverse as Lacy J Dalton, Holly Dunn, Mark Germino, Marty Stuart, Duane Eddy & Joe Louis Walker before guiding Alan Jackson to superstardom.

He later managed Suzy Bogguss, George Ducas, BR5-49 and Diamond Rio before he became CEO of the Nashville division of prestige label Atlantic.

Barry and Jewel still operate their thriving Ten-Ten and Coburn Music Publishing companies.