Felicity And Josh Cunningham Headline Nu Country TV
Prolific Golden Guitarist Felicity Urquhart and her singing spouse Josh Cunningham headline Nu Country TV at 9 pm on Saturday June 14 on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Northcote singing music teacher Michael Meeking and Melbourne duo Minor Gold return to the show, repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Georgians Thomas Rhett, Teddy Swims and Caylee Hammack and Nebraska belle Kellie Belles also appear on our program 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/
Felicity Trolley Rollers
Prolific Golden Guitarists Felicity Urquhart and singing spouse Josh Cunningham ignite a trolley invasion in their return to our show.
The mother of two daughters was so taken by a Joyrolla shopping cart she bought one for her mum for Christmas.
Felicity, 49, and Waifs co-founder Josh front a hot band in their live version of Joy Roller with James Gillard and Ben Elliott.
“It wasn’t enough to find a bass player and drummer who were simply available – they had to be Joy Rollers too, and James Gillard and Ben Elliot were the right men for the task,” Felicity revealed.
Duncan Toombs filmed the video.
“Duncan got our 11-year-old Ellie to sit in an office chair holding the camera as he wheeled her around – giving movement and energy.”
Joy Roller follows the duo’s No One Needs To Hurt Alone on ABC Music charity compilation album We See You in late 2024, their triple Golden Guitar winning ninth album Bird Song and Seasons video.
Felicity found solace with divorcee Josh after the death of former singing spouse Glen Hannah in 2019.
Click Here for a previous Felicity CD review.
Michael Meeking Clocks His Guitar And Drums
Northcote music teacher-singer Michael Meeking is surrounded by clicking clocks as he hit his guitar and drums in his Nu Country TV return.
It was a long way from his Upper Beaconsfield childhood home.
Time To Make Up Your Mind follows his fifth album The Night Air and three albums with The Lost Souls.
Meeking previously fronted our show with Little Miss Sydney, Running Down Your Street Again, Lonesome, Good Times Will Come Again and Where You Going To.
He moved to London for six years in his late twenties and uses locales diverse as Mansfield, Lake Eildon, Sorrento back beach and Blairgowrie in his videos.
Further info – https://www.michaelmeeking.com/
Minor Gold Wait For The Sun
Expat Melbourne duo Minor Gold hit Queensland surf beaches in their search for brighter lights on their return to our show.
Latter day Queenslanders Dan Parsons and expat Canadian Tracy McNeil once called Melbourne home where they sang, performed and wrote songs together for 16 years.
They are now touring the U.S.
The duo perform Way To The Sun – the title track to their new album out on July 25.
It was recorded at Ultimate Hair Farm studio in Glendale, California.
The band has been touring the U.S. for the last two years and return to their latter day Queensland home in August.
Tracy, now 50, cut five solo and Good Life band albums with Dan.
Minor Gold previously fronted our show with Tumbleweed, Mona Lisa, Cannonball and Don’t Change.
Further info – https://www.minorgoldmusic.com/
Kellie Belles Tries Porcelain
Nebraska belle Kellie Belles who sings and records as Belles sings of a farming duo who enjoy their dream lifestyle in her Nu Country TV return with her Porcelain video.
Kellie, 25, previously appeared on our show with What In The Truck about an item left in her beau’s truck by another belle when she was at school.
What In The Truck was her first single for Deluge Records.
Porcelain follows her debut album All Hat No Cowboy.
Kellie also sings with her mother under the name Mulberry Lane.
Further info – https://bellesmusic.com/
Caylee Hammack Behind Bars
Georgian star Caylee Hammack takes viewers on a floral trip on her return to Behind Bars.
Caylee, 31, sings of how bitter grapes make sweet wine – a metaphor for a faded lover.
Her former beau may have wilted but she slept better after he left, especially when it inspired her new song and book.
Bed Of Roses is her second album title track.
She previously fronted Nu Country with Reb McEntire on Redhead on Caylee’s debut album If It Wasn’t For You released on August 14, 2020.
Caylee beat cancer when she was 16 in her southern Georgia hometown Ellaville.
Her reliance on pain killers after a cancerous tumour was removed inspired her first recorded song Addictive.
“When I was 16, I had a two pound tumour removed from my back spinal muscle,” Caylee revealed.
“I went a month fearing I had cancer and I was terrified. We had to wait for me to get better before I could have surgery. Three days later the specialist called and said we had the blood screen pathologist look through it and they’re now clear. That moment felt like a clean slate from God. It was a wake-up call of sorts. Life is shorter than you thought. I’ve been given a second chance so go and do something with it. It was the first song I wrote in bed after I was getting through it. It was about the pain killers and a relationship I was having. It was the first song I ever got anyone in Nashville interested in me.”
Further info – https://www.cayleehammack.com/
Thomas Rhett And Teddy Swims
Fellow Georgians Thomas Rhett and Teddy Swims also return to Behind Bars.
They were taken by a bucolic belle with four legs and a lead in their new video.
Something About A Woman is Rhett’s seventh album title track.
Thomas, 35, is the son of singer Rhett Akins and previously appeared on Nu Country with his What’s Your Country Song.
Akins toured here with Tennessee preacher’s son Morgan Wallen and Florida Georgia Line in 2019.
Thomas joined dad Rhett in his seventh No 1 hit Star Of The Show video on his deluxe version of second album Tangled Up.
Swims, 32, released two I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy albums.
CLICK HERE for our review of Rhett’s Rod Laver Arena show in our Concert section on March 20, 2019.
Further info – http://www.thomasrhett.com/home
Further info – https://www.teddyswims.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.
