Gene Bradley Fisk Headlines Nu Country TV
Veteran Geelong singer-songwriter and radio host Gene Bradley Fisk, now 90, follows Shotgun Willie Nelson, 92 on the road again as he headlines Nu Country TV on Saturday September 27 at 9 pm on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Nebraskan Kellie Belles and Californian Jennifer Belle boomerang to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Louisiana band Crowe Boys, Hunter Valley singer Saralyn and Queenslander Danny Widdicombe front 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.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Gene Hits The Road And Radio At 90
Geelong based Gene Bradley Fisk takes us on a colourful trip that began at age of 11 when he played mandolin and banjo in the Colac banjo club.
Gene, now 90, joined RAAF at 15 and fronted The Strangers band while stationed in Malaysia.
He hosted radio shows on 3HA Hamilton and other rural towns before hitting the big smoke and hosting country music shows on 3UZ from 1977-1980 and 3GL Geelong.
Gene, who has recorded with his DJ daughter and singer-songwriter Donna, now 60, travels from Geelong each week to host his popular weekly music show on Wyn-FM in Werribee.
Gene and Donna honoured a late Pentridge prisoner’s poetry in one of his previous Nu Country videos after he received the poem in the mail from Gary David Webb after he performed a concert at Pentridge for staff and prisoners in the seventies.
Webb, a drummer, died in1993 after sending his poem to Gene.
Gene’s Weekend Cowboy single made newspaper headlines after he performed at concerts and on his CDs after Nu Country TV producer David Dawson interviewed him about the song source.
Gene and Donna and their band revived his song in a live video at the Bleak House in Malmsbury.
Fisk hosted radio shows with Dawson as special guest before Dawson also appeared on Malcolm T Elliott’s radio shows on 2UE Sydney when Dawson was music feature writer and columnist on the Sydney Daily Mirror from 1980-85.
Fisk paid tribute to late Western District tribal elder Blackhawk in a previous Nu Country video that followed The Last Of The Rock’n Rollers and Kaanglang Dreaming on our show.
This week Gene performs Underneath My Setting Sun from his 10th album.
It follows Fiskomania, Outlaw, Blood Of A Rambler and Up North Down South Out West.
His previous singles include The Bushranger, The Ballad Of Ronald Ryan and I Ain’t Gonna Stand In Line.
Further info – https://www.facebook.com/genebradleyfiskmusic/
Danny Widdicombe Honours Shotgun Willie Nelson
Leukemia survivor and Wilson Pickers icon Danny Widdicombe, who turns 50 this year, celebrated Shotgun Willie Nelson by releasing Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain on Willie’s 92nd birthday on April 29.
We feature Blue Eyes this week – it follows Danny’s fourth album on Futurephonic Records.
Danny won the 2021 Queensland Music award for Best Jazz release with experimental jazz trio Trichotomy.
He received 3 ARIA Award nominations for each studio album released with his bluegrass band The Wilson Pickers.
As a solo artist Danny won the GW McLennan Memorial Fellowship and his first Queensland Music Award in 2010.
It enabled him to tour Europe before his leukemia returned for the third time.
Undaunted by his illness Danny has toured overseas and his home country and played guitar for Bernard Fanning, Tim Rogers, Emily Wurramara, Shane Nicholson and more.
Further info – https://dannywiddicombe.com/
Belles Ring For Kellie
Nebraska refugee Kellie Belles who also records as Belles returns to our show with her Happy Hour video filmed at the Bowery Vault in East Nashville.
Kellie, 25, sang of a farming duo who enjoy their dream lifestyle in her recent Nu Country TV video Porcelain and What In The Truck about items 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.
It followed Porcelain, What Would Dolly Do and Man Out Of Me and her debut album All Hat No Cowboy.
Kellie also sings with her mother under the name Mulberry Lane.
Further info – https://bellesmusic.com/
Jennifer Belle Teaches Lessons
Californian singer-songwriter Jennifer Belle delivers summary justice to a cheating chap in her Nu Country TV debut.
Jennifer dealt with a dude who hit the bars instead of her heart.
The Castro Valley chanteuse performs Let Him Be A Lesson is on her debut album Heart First.
Jennifer feels her life’s purpose is to touch and heal people through her music.
She has opened for Scott Joss (fiddle player for Kris Kristofferson), Parmalee, Easton Corbin, Big & Rich and Dan Crenshaw.
Belle has also made major performances from the West Coast to the East Coast in dance, theatre and acting.
Jennifer was born and raised in Bay Area, California, where her passion for performing began when she was young.
Further info – https://jenniferbellemusic.com/
Crowe Boys Ignite A Bonfire In Behind Bars
Louisiana band Crowe Boys – Ocie, Jacob and Wes Crowe who record as Crowe Boys – ignite a bonfire on their Nu Country TV debut.
They perform Bonfire In My Soul as part of a trilogy.
It’s among 10 songs they wrote for their debut album Made To Wander that came out on June 6.
They escaped prison guards in their previous video Bootstraps.
Ocie Crowe plays acoustic guitar and Wes Crowe on mandolin.
They were born in Baton Rouge and spent some of their childhood in Pride, Louisiana, living next door to their grandparents.
When Ocie was 11 and Wes was 8, they lost their mother to breast cancer at just 33.
The family then settled in the small town of Franklinton, Louisiana, when their dad remarried.
“Music was where we went when we were frustrated or angry or confused or just hurt,” Ocie revealed.
“We might have been at a church or might have been home in a den with instruments set up, and we would just go in there and lay it all out. That was our way of processing and working through life, and we chose to do it together. Music really is more than just something we do. It’s a spiritual experience for us, being able to share it with people.”
Further info – https://www.croweboys.com/
Hunter Valley Honey Saralyn On A Freedom Train
Hunter Valley singer Saralyn debuts on our show with a liberation anthem when her character escapes a toxic relationship in her Freedom Train video.
Freedom Train debuted on indie Australian label RTC in March and is followed by her debut EP.
Saralyn’s music is inspired by Stevie Nicks, Lainey Wilson, and Dolly Parton.
In 2024 the mother of two young children won Gympie Music Muster Mother Tone Talent Search open category and played Deni Ute Muster and Gympie Muster.
Freedom Train follows her first hit White Butterfly recorded at Kasey Chambers Rabbit Hole Studios.
Further info – https://genr8ent.com.au/artists/saralyn
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