Tom Busby Headlines Nu Country TV
Rockhampton born Tom Busby of the Busby Marou duo headlines Nu Country TV at 9 pm on Saturday June 7 on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Sydney teenager Coral Renee, Arkansas singing cowboy Joe Nichols and Louisiana singer Andy Griggs return to the show repeated 3 am on Monday.
Fellow Louisiana singers Jordan Davis and Frank Foster and West Texan outlaw Creed Fisher front our show, filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Tom Heads To Texas
Tom Busby now lives at Currumbin on the Gold Coast but headed north to Texas hill country for his return to our show.
He filmed his video with Ben Queller at his ranch studio in Texas hill country.
The former lawyer and marine biologist performs Waiting For Tomorrow from his debut solo album Rockhampton Hangover.
Busby Marou also fronted our show with Got Your Back from their third album Post Cards From The Shellhouse.
They performed it at the Shellhouse on Great Keppel Island and The Stables at Gisborne north of Melbourne.
The duo boomeranged after Jeremy Marou suffered a heart attack at just 34 in May. 2017.
Marou and former lawyer-marine biologist Busby started Busby Marou in 2007 on Fitzroy River banks in Rockhampton.
Busby Marou released their Paint This Land video directed by Wayne Blair and Kate Halpin at Mt Tambourine in the Gold Coast hinterland.
It featured Wayne ‘s father, Bob Blair – a Vietnam War veteran and first Aboriginal Regimental Sergeant Major in Australia – and actor Tony Barry.
Paint This Land acknowledged all soldiers who fought side by side with attention to Indigenous soldiers who were sadly never recognised until much later.
Further info – http://www.busbymarou.com/
Coral Renee Chooses Pink
Sydney teen tunesmith Coral Renee chooses dainty disguises as she sings and swings with dancer Aaron Gerrard.
Coral, 19, performs Masquerade that follows first single Pink Is My Colour on her debut album.
Pink Is My Colour was filmed by Josh and Tracy Beveridge at Roca Cafe Pink in Ramsgate.
They also filmed Coral at Country Charm, East To Western Wear in Charmhaven.
Belle Norman played her as a child before Coral updated to teenage pink.
“When I was younger I was taught that pink was only for girls and that it was a colour associated with weakness,” Coral revealed.
“With this song I wanted to repaint the colour pink as one of strength, confidence, joy, and individuality, telling the story of my journey with the colour pink and how it became my colour.”
Coral graduated from Junior Academy of Country Music and Talent Development Project with a concert at ICC Sydney in 2024.
She also performed Dungong, Tamworth and St Albans country and folk festivals.
Further info – https://coralrenee.com/
Joe Nicholl’s Home Run
Arkansas singing cowboy Joe Nichols gives his version of a home run on his return to our show.
Joe, now 48, used a baseball metaphor to drive his message.
He returned from the lost highway to wife Heather and three daughters at home and his mother at the front door in his Home Run video from 11th album Good Day For Living.
“It has a strong melody that sticks in your head, but it also has a great message for right now,” Nichols said of the song penned by Ashley Gorley, Dallas Davidson and Ross Copperman.
“Everyone is feeling a little crazy, a little lost.”
Nichols went into rehab after his truckie bassist dad died.
Joe made three Australian tours including 2001 Forum gig with Fawkner filly Jasmine Rae.
Nichols appeared on Nu Country with a humorous version of a song by hip hop rapper Sir Mix A Lot.
Joe was judged by Sir Mix A Lot on his classic Baby Got Back from 10th album Never Gets Old.
CLICK HERE for a Joe Nichols interview in The Diary on November 18, 2009.
Andy Griggs On Lost Highway
Louisiana star Andy Griggs hits the highway in his hot car on his return.
Andy, now 51, sang of enduring love for a beatific belle in his rearview mirror.
He is rewarded by a brunette when he pulls up.
Why Do I Still Want You is on his sixth album that follows his fifth album Naked.
Griggs has been married twice, first to Stephanie Sullivan in February 1995 and second wife Renee in 2005.
They also split up and he now has a son named Mason.
Further info – https://www.andygriggs.com/
Jordan Davis Bluebird Days
Louisiana star Jordan Davis hit the boat and booze with his mates had big problems awaiting his return.
The Shreveport singer-songwriter Jordan, now 37, left his belle waiting at home.
I Ain’t Saying follows his second album Bluebird Days.
Jordan joined Luke Combs, Mitchell Tenpenny and Lane Pitman in a Marvel Stadium concert in February.
CLICK HERE for our concert review.
Frank Foster And Creed Fisher
Louisiana singer-songwriter Frank Foster and West Texan outlaw and Army veteran Creed Fisher honour their military heroes with their blue-collar anthem on their Nu Country TV return.
The duo and their band hit the stage with pride.
Frank, 43, is a prolific singer-songwriter and Creed, 52, has eight albums in his catalogue.
Some Of Us Still Do is on Foster’s eighth album.
Further info – https://frankfostermusic.com/
Fisher praised men and women out on the front line in his previous Nu Country video Stars And Stripes from his eighth album This Ain’t The Hamptons.
He also fronted Nu Country with Take One For The Team, Nashville, High On The Bottle, People Like Me, This Town, Life Of A Working Man, Hankles, Hank Williams and Daughter Of An Outlaw.
Further info – https://creedfisher.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.
