Ben Gallaher Headlines Nu Country TV
Pennsylvania poet and singer-songwriter Ben Gallaher headlines Nu Country TV on Saturday September 6 at 9 pm on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Louisiana born Australian tourists Dylan Scott and Kentuckian Tyler Childers boomerang to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Kiwi minstrel Mel Parsons, Grammy winning Californian singer-songwriter Cam and Nashville star Laura Sawosko debut on our program filmed and edited by our co-producer Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
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Ben Gallaher Fires His Bullet At The Charts
Belmont University graduate and singer-songwriter Ben Gallaher highlights his Nu Country TV debut with a personal ID for our viewers.
Pennsylvania born poet Ben, now 33, left his Camp Hill home to chase his music dreams.
He performs new EP title track Bullet that follows 2013 debut album Country In The House on Stone Country Records.
Bullet is a ballad about laying down your life for the one you love.
Ben penned his do-or-die pledge with Chris August, Kelley Lovelace and Neil Thrasher.
“When you love someone you’d do anything for them no matter what,” Gallaher revealed.
“You’d take a bullet for them, and that’s where the inspiration for that song came from. I wrote it for my wife, but now we have a baby boy and so it takes on a whole new meaning.”
His EP includes Kinda Can’t Say No to an irresistible woman a man can’t walk away from when he knows he should.
Cuts Like a Knife is a Bryan Adams’ cover, Dirt Ones is a road-trip anthem about taking the road less travelled and Mistakes a no-regrets rocker about how life’s wrong turns usually only make us stronger.
Gallaher’s online fanbase exploded with his viral guitar riff Stomp scoring over 36 million views.
Further info – https://www.bengallaher.com/
Mel Parsons Post High Slide
Kiwi minstrel Mel Parsons takes us on a post high slide on her debut on our show.
West Coast New Zealand sheep and wheat farm refugee Mel, now 43, spent time in Chile and Rocky Mountains in Canada before returning home.
She performs her new hit Post High Slide that follows her sixth album Sabotage she recorded during Covid.
Mel followed it with Be Here Now featuring Mitchell Froom of Crowded House.
The Lyttleton artist performed at Folk Alliance in Montreal, Canada, and opened for Crowded House on their Gravity Stairs tour.
Mel’s 2024 Sabotage album was nominated for the Taite Prize and Album of Year at Aotearoa Music Awards where she won best folk artist in 2020.
Further info – https://melparsons.com/
Dylan Scott Behind Bars
Louisiana singer-songwriter Dylan Scott returns to Behind Bars after playing 2019 CMC Rocks Queensland festival on one of his tours here.
Dylan, now 34, visited Nashville at 15 with his guitarist dad who played with country stars Freddy Fender and Freddie Hart.
Easy Does It is Dylan’s third album title track.
Scott previously fronted our show with You’d Think I Was A Cowboy, Nothing To Do Town and Hooked.
He penned Hooked with expat Novocastrian Morgan Evans.
Dylan also appeared on Nu Country with Delaware singer Jimmie Allen with In Our Blood.
Further info – https://dylanscottcountry.com/
Grammy Winner Cam
Californian Cam has good reason for thinking she is a Goddess as she joins Dylan Scott in Behind Bars.
She won her Grammy songwriter of the year for writing some of Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter hits.
The singer, real-name Camaron Marvel Ochs, also wrote hits for Miley Cyrus and Sam Smith.
Cam, now 40, gave birth to a daughter three years after marrying in a Californian desert.
Turns Out That I’m God is on her fourth album All Things Light released on July 18 on RCA Records.
“There’s an Alan Watts talk where he speaks about how we’re all God, we’ve just forgotten,” Cam revealed.
“I wanted this song to express that idea humbly, asking how we might live our lives if we acknowledged that we are all God together.”
Further info – https://www.camcountry.com/
Tyler Childers Grindstone Guru
Kentucky star and frequent Australian tourist Tyler Childers returns to our show after touring here with his singing spouse Senora May.
Tyler, now 34, performed here in February on his latest tour.
He headlined his concerts in Perth, Melbourne, Korumburra, Canberra and Adelaide.
Tyler performs his new hit Nose On The Grindstone from his seventh album Snipe Hunter.
Childers previously fronted our show In Your Love and the title track of his sixth album Rusting In The Rain after touring here in 2019 with the late John Prine.
He played Myer Music Bowl on February 20, 2024, and Coal Creek Community Park and Korumburra Museum on February 22.
CLICK HERE for Childers Purgatory CD feature in The Diary on September 16, 2019.
CLICK HERE for Childers Country Squire CD feature in The Diary on March 4, 2019.
Laura Sawosko Handballs And Goals
Arizona born Nashville star Laura Sawosko debuts on our show with her plaintiff plea – Take My Hand from her fifth album Not What I Do.
Laura, now 50, made her name in the Chicks With Picks and Surrender Dorothy bands and fronted NBC TV show Fear Factor.
She pays tribute to many creatives who toil solo or with co-writers with dreams of hearing their words recorded and released to the world.
Laura was keyboardist in Surrender Dorothy who opened the 1999 Phoenix Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlin, Sheryl Crow, Martina McBride and Dido.
She composed the score for gay friendly independent film, An Intimate Friendship, and fronted NBC’s #1 show Fear Factor by riding a bull in Season 2.
As a member of Chicks With Picks in Arizona she opened for Sarah Buxton and Michelle Branch.
Laura moved to Nashville in 2010 to pursue her songwriting career and recorded her album The Songwriters with producer Vaughn Lofstead.
Lyrics for Laura’s original song, The Songwriters, were added to a unique collection in Nashville. Motif on the Row.
It’s a boutique hotel in Nashville’s former UA Tower – now home of the Lyric Lane collection of handwritten lyrics from Music City’s legendary hit writers.
Further info – https://www.laurasawosko.com/
Win Waylon, George Jones And Merle Haggard
Help us celebrate being Nu Country TV members and win albums by late Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Highwaymen by becoming a Nu Country member or renewing your memberships.
George, Waylon, Merle and Willie Nelson were among country historian Barbara Dowling’s favourite Texans.
The Waylon, Highwaymen, Merle and George discs were donated by Barbara who died at 77 in December, 2020.
She co-hosted Long In The Saddle in our Nu Country FM era and was pioneer Australian and Victorian country music awards judge.
Barbara was admired for rising above losing her sight as a young woman and her country passion with annual trips to Waylon’s birthplace in Littlefield, West Texas.
Waylon died at 64 on February 13, 2002, and is survived by singing spouse Jessi, now 81, and son Shooter, 46.
Win Keith Urban CDs Also
We have expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban’s chart topping 12th album The Speed Of Now – Part 1.
Also BR5-49 CD Big Backyard Beat Show and Billy Ray Cyrus’s historic 1992 album Some Gave All featuring Achy Breaky Heart.
We have other CDs by major artists you can win by becoming Nu Country TV members or renewing memberships.
They include Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kip Moore, Carrie Underwood and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
