Michael Meeking And George Triantis Headline Nu Country TV
Melbourne singer-songwriters Michael Meeking and George Triantis headline Nu Country TV on Saturday January 17 at 10 pm on Channel 31/ Digital 44.
Hunter Valley singers Lyn Bowtell and Katie Jayne and Sydney songsmith Coral Renee boomerang to our show repeated on Monday at 1 am.
Floridian fiddler and recent Australian tourist Joshua Hedley appears on the program filmed, edited and produced by our co-host and producer Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Michael Meeking On The Road Again
Northcote singer-songwriter and music teacher Michael Meeking takes to a mystic highway on his bike before reaching a new horizon.
Meeking, a fellow Northcote High School teaching colleague of our late Nu Country TV host and producer Mid Pacific Bob Olson, performs If There’s More You Want that 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, Time To Make Up Your Mind and Where You Going To.
He used locales diverse as Mansfield, Lake Eildon, Sorrento back beach and Blairgowrie in his videos.
It was a long way from his Upper Beaconsfield childhood home and London where he moved for six years in his late twenties.
Further info – https://www.michaelmeeking.com/
George Triantis Busks In The Hills
East Malvern social worker and singer-songwriter George Triantis asks questions on his return to our show.
George spends his days working at Stonnington Council as a health and safety officer.
He also hits the highway, hills and footpath as a busker and singer-songwriter on his new video.
How Can I Be Sure follows his Nu Country TV debut with Lonely Highway on George’s debut Euro Country album this year.
George took a break from his day job to take viewers on a trip to the mountains as he listened to the radio as he followed the Mountain Highway and Mount Dandenong Tourist Roads.
He later sang and played his guitar way up high near Olinda and Selby and showed us the Puffing Billy rail trail bridge in his Lonely Highway video.
Further info – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCijTi4yt7KR7n5koqkcEJcA
Lyn Bowtell Returns To The Scene Of The Crime
Hunter Valley hit maker and 10-time Tamworth Golden Guitarist Lyn Bowtell reveals the scene of the crime of domestic violence that she suffered on her Nu Country TV reprise.
Bowtell illustrates morbid memories of domestic violence she and many other women suffered and reported to The World Health Organisation.
Lyn, now 48, Esther Sparkes and Tyrann Mann appear in the video for the song she wrote with Kevin Bennett.
Scene Of The Crime follows Lyn’s seventh album Paper Cuts.
Lyn and her Bella belles – Kate Ballantyne and Karen O’Shea – previously fronted our show with a double shot on the eve of Tamworth country music festival in January.
They performed I Don’t Wanna Stay and Cold Shiver on her seventh album Paper Cuts that she produced with Damon Morton.
Lyn was born in Queensland but now hangs her hat at Greta in the Hunter Valley and fronted our show with I Won’t Do That Again and Heart Of Sorrow.
Lyn is well qualified to sing of sorrow – she boomeranged from divorce over 14 years ago.
So has her former producer Shane Nicholson – former singing spouse of Kasey Chambers – who produced her 2O22 album Wiser and Heart Of Sorrow in 2014.
Lyn appeared live on Nu Country in 2004 with Golden Guitar winning trio Bella at the 15th Bunyip Country Music Festival where she was interviewed and filmed by former Nu Country TV host Heather Rutherford.
Lyn also released three albums with Kevin Bennett and Felicity Urquhart.
CLICK HERE for a review of Lyn’s album Heart of Sorrow in The Diary on October 20, 2014.
CLICK HERE for a Bennett, Bowtell and Urquhart CD review in The Diary on October 15, 2018.
Katie Jayne Exposes A Cowboy Cassanova
Hunter Valley vamp Katie Jayne revels in her dynamic depiction of a cowboy Cassanova prowling a bar.
She sent him flying with her dance floor shove at the bar-room belter played by Vince Phillips.
Katie wrote the song for the video filmed live at Ringers Western on the Central Coast of NSW.
Honky Tonk Hound Dog is on her 10-track debut album out this month on Rock This Country Records.
She wrote the song produced by Jared Adlam.
“This song started as a laugh between friends and turned into one of my favorite tracks to perform,” Katie Jayne revealed.
“It’s playful and loud, but there’s truth in it too and that’s my favorite kind of country song.”
She also released Let’s Get It Wrong Together with Luke Austen, He Had Me At Hello and Boys Lie.
Further info – https://rockthiscountry.com.au/
Coral Renee Reveals The Devil’s Boots
Sydney songbird Coral Renee reveals what the devil is wearing in her Nu Country return.
Coral exposes a demonic dude in cowboy boots as she is joined in a bar by dancers Keisha Neal, Riley De Luca and Ona Fraser.
The Devil Wears Cowboy Boots follows Masquerade and Pink Is My Colour on her debut album.
Coral, now 20, performs in Tamworth this month.
Pink Is My Colour was filmed by Josh and Tracy Beveridge at Roca Cafe Pink in Ramsgate, Country Charm, East To Western Wear in Charmhaven.
“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 Junior Academy of Country Music and Talent Development Project concert at ICC Sydney in 2024 and performed Dungong, Tamworth and St Albans country and folk festivals.
Further info – https://coralrenee.com/
Joshua Hedley Delicious Dish
Floridian fiddler Joshua Hedley returns to our show after touring here with Johnny Fritz and the late Justin Townes Earle.
Joshua shared his biscuits with a blonde bombshell in the wings of their kitchen.
Hedley, 39, began on fiddle at eight and played Out On The Weekend festivals in Williamstown.
He fronted our show with Neon Blue and Mr Juke Box and appeared in 2015 documentary Heartworn Highways Revisited.
Fresh Hot Biscuits is on his third album All Hat.
Hedley made his name at Roberts Western World, Nashville, as a sideman where he was known as the mayor of Lower Broad.
Hedley didn’t start writing his own songs until he was 28 but his debut album featured one cover – When You Wish Upon A Star tribute to late father Richard, a Disney fan.
Joshua penned These Walls about FooBar – a beloved East Nashville dive Hedley lived near before it shut down.
His debut album originals included Counting All My Tears, Weird Thought Thinker, Let Them Talk, Let’s Take a Vacation and Don’t Waste Your Tears.
Further info – http://joshuahedley.com/
CD Prizes For Nu Country TV Members
You don’t need a hat or biscuits to become Nu Country TV members or renew your membership.
But you can win CDsS by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, George Jones and the Highwaymen.
Also Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Randy Travis, Carrie Underwood, late larrikin A.P. Johnson and many more.
Name your favorite artists and we’ll find their CDs for you.
