Blake Shelton, Billy Strings and Willie Nelson Headline Nu Country TV
Oklahoma singing actor and star Blake Shelton headlines Nu Country TV at 9 pm on Saturday October 25 on Channel 31/ Digital 44.
Bluegrass maestro Billy Strings and Shotgun Willie Nelson boomerang to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Recent Maryland tourist Jackson Dean, NSW central coast duo Frecko, Melbourne raised singer Tom Woodward and Oklahoma rancher C.J. Garton appear on our program filmed and produced by co-host editor-producer and camera man Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Blake Shelton Stays Country
Oklahoma star Blake Shelton headlines our show with a high-octane anthem of rural resilience and tiny town pride.
Blake, 49, showed a family’s fight to save their seventh generation home.
He portrayed their struggle to resurrect their legacy.
The singer-songwriter-restaurateur and TV show host-mentor performs Stay Country Or Die Trying from his 16th album For Recreational Use Only.
Shelton wed his third singing spouse Gwen Stefani on July 3, 2021, after splitting with his second wife – Texan star Miranda Lambert.
Blake’s TV roles included The Voice judge-mentor from 2011-2023.
He and New York actor-rapper Post Malone fronted our show with Pour Me A Drink and with Miranda on Nobody But You.
Shelton also appeared with Come Back As A Country Boy and Texas that followed his 14th album Body Language.
Blake was joined by Lambert’s Pistol Annies on a feisty flashback to rural romps in pick-up trucks and wildlife on our show with Boys Round Here – from 2013 album Based On A True Story.
Shelton opened Ole Red diner-and music venue at Nashville airport in 2022.
The $4.5 million C Terminal project boasts 190 seats, concert acoustics and the largest stage in the airport.
Ole Red joins four sibling venues in Orlando, Florida, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, Nashville and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
CLICK HERE for a Blake feature in The Diary on June 11, 2018.
Billy and Willie Hip Humour
Michigan bluegrass king Billy Strings and singing actor country star – Shotgun Willie Nelson – ignite a dry dose of hip humour in their studio on their Nu Country TV return.
They recalled the passing of the years without many tears.
Billy turned 33 on October 3 and sold out his Australian tour in July.
Willie, just 92, did the same on his many tours here
California Sober follows Billy’s five albums.
Billy also fronted our show with social comment video Watch It Fall from his fourth album Home.
He was joined by guitarist dad Terry Barber and singer mother Debra on Behind Bars with bluegrass traditional song Long Journey Home and fronted Nu Country with his In The Morning Light video from fifth album Renewal and Uncloudy Day.
Billy, aka William Apostol, attended Twin Rivers Elementary where his music teacher Mrs. Mercer still works.
He released The Great Divide with North Carolina nouveau outlaw chart topper, 2022 CMA Entertainer Of The Year and August tourist Luke Combs.
Willie recently performed his 153rd album title track on our show and toured here several times with his own bands and The Highwaymen.
He and late fellow singing actor Kris Kristofferson played golf on a public course near the Yarra River on one of his Highwaymen tours.
Willie has appeared in more than 50 movies and telemovies.
They include The Electric Horseman, Honeysuckle Rose, Barbarosa, Songwriter, Red Headed Stranger, The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, Stagecoach, Once Upon a Texas Train and Beer For My Horses.
Click Here for a Willie & The Wheel feature in the Diary on July 4, 2009.
Click Here for our Billy Strings concert review.
Further info – https://www.billystrings.com/
Jackson Dean
Maryland singer-songwriter and Australian tourist Jackson Dean returns to our show with sweet Appalachian memories.
Jackson, now 25, toured here in March with Lainey Wilson and Kameron Marlowe before his return tour with Newcastle singer Austin Mackay that included a Melbourne Forum show on October 5.
He landed songs in the Yellowstone TV series.
Sweet Appalachia is on his second album – On The Back Of My Dreams.
Click Here for our Jackson Dean concert review.
Frecko Boomerangs
NSW Central Coast band Frecko illustrate their Music City memories on their return to our show.
Jason Freckelton and his son Jack are prolific performers here and overseas.
The Copacabana duo included their Nashville video on their third album Dreams Are Hard To Sell.
They fronted Nu Country TV with Blackline, Daughter’s New Ride, Good Times and Bury Me Deep.
Bury Me Deep was the story of forgotten rural towns of Australia and their struggle with drought, fires and flood in the face of political inaction and is in new documentary Bone Dry.
Further information – https://www.facebook.com/freckomusic/
Tom Woodward Termination Day
Melbourne born singer-songwriter Tom Woodward debuts on our show after surviving his two months walk up the east coast of Australia.
It landed his weary body in hospital before he was deported from America as an illegal alien.
But he boomeranged home to perform with his band True Delusions.
Termination Day is Tom’s parody of hi-tech feudalism and economic totalitarianism.
It’s on his seventh album that follows Revolving Doors in 2024.
Further info – https://tomwoodwardmusic.com/
C.J Garton No Mountie
Sixth generation Oklahoma rancher C.J. Garton chooses his own equine humour on his Nu Country debut.
C.J. learned the rodeo ropes from his dad and grandfather on their family farm and wrote hits for many artists including Tanya Tucker, David Allan Coe and Darrell Singletary.
But he was not mounted by fillies until he hit the lost highway.
I Ain’t Your Horse is on his seventh album.
Garton says “it invokes the nostalgia of the great country music of the ’80s and ’90s and has become so popular that there’s now a line dance that people use to honky-tonk their nights away.”
Further info – https://cjgarton.com/
Waylon Jennings – The Cowboy Small Texas Town
We close our show with Waylon Jennings video The Cowboy Small Texan Town as an enticement for viewers to join Nu Country TV or renew their memberships in our 23rd year on community TV.
See how you can be rewarded below.
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.
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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.
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