Graeme Connors And Kelly Dixon Headline Nu Country TV
Nu Country TV is running a series of repeat shows during winter as our camera man-editor and co-host Laith Graham takes a well-deserved break overseas.
Prolific Queensland Golden Guitarist Graeme Connors and singing stockman Kelly Dixon, aged 98, headline Nu Country TV on Saturday June 6 at 8.30 pm on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Texan singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert boomerangs to the show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Louisiana woman Kylie Frey, Mississippi minstrel William Michael Morgan and Arkansas singer-songwriter Justin Moore appear on the program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Michigan singer-songwriter Nate Barnes and third generation Texan ranch raised singer Jenna Paulette also appear this week.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Graeme Connors And Kelly Dixon With A Retired Ringer
Mackay minstrel Graeme Connors, now 70, returns with an older singer-songwriter stockman Kelly Dixon, aged 98 and still singing for his supper.
Kelly expects calls and cards from King Charles when he turns 100.
Connors, who has won 14 Golden Guitars, two APRA Awards and one ARIA Awards in his 50-year career, teamed with Dixon for The Ringer’s Retired – Graeme’s 21st album title track.
The Ringer’s Retired has lyrics reminiscent of Australian classics penned by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson and memorable melodies that reflect two writers in their prime.
Connors also released his My Lyrical Life book with 217 songs from his pen, recorded by him or artists including Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English, plus autobiographical reflections from various phases of his long colourful career.
Graeme celebrated Texan Rhodes scholar singer-songwriter actor Kris Kristofferson who died at 88 on September 28 in 2024.
In 1974 at the age of 18 Connors opened for Kristofferson during his Australian tour.
Kristofferson was so impressed that he took Connors in the studio to produce his 1976 debut album And When Morning Comes.
Graeme’s new duet partner Dixon, born in 1927 in bush town Dirranbandi began his working life at 13 as a trainee stockman on the historic Cubbie cattle station, is still firing on and off stage.
In times devoid of TV and radio, writing bush verse and reciting the works of the masters was his primary form of entertainment.
His journey to becoming a head stockman took him to Kidman Station Bulloo Downs, Tanbar on Cooper Creek and Victoria River Downs – the events and characters he came across provided inspiration for his extensive catalogue of recorded works.
Kelly classics Leave Him in the Longyard, Six Decks to Darwin and Dewdrops on the Bluegrass exemplify his mastery of the bush ballads.
Further info – https://graemeconnors.com/
Miranda Lambert Damns Randy Not Rivers
Texan triple Grammy winner Miranda Lambert boomerangs to our show with Damn It Randy – a song she penned with her second husband – New York policeman Brendan McLoughlin.
It’s not clear if her previous singing spouse, actor and TV show host Blake Shelton will give her video decent exposure.
Damn It Randy is on Miranda’s 10th solo album Postcards From Texas.
She also released four albums with Pistol Annies.
Miranda now 42 runs Mutt Foundation for stray dogs.
Hardy, Lukas Nelson and Jake Worthington joined Miranda for her Music For Mutts benefit concert at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheatre October 5, 2025, with guests Ashley Monroe, Natalie Hemby, Little Big Town, Dan + Shay and Riley Green.
The celebration of her Mutt Nation Foundation 15th anniversary fundraiser included an adoption event.
The nonprofit has raised over $10 million to promote adoption support shelters advance spay & neuter and assist with emergency response during times of natural disaster.
William Michael Morgan And Kylie Frey
Mississippi minstrel William Michael Morgan and Louisiana lass Kylie Frey return to our show this week.
They perform Louisiana Woman – Mississippi Man from her album Country Classics Volume One.
Morgan, 33, hails from Vicksburg, Mississippi and Kylie, 31, is from Opelousas, Louisiana.
The third-generation rodeo girl is also the Louisiana state goat-tying champion
She emerged on America’s Got Talent and released three EPs Rodeo Queen, Hell Of A Life andWild Horses.
Kylie also appeared on Nu Country with Texan Bri Bagwell on their live cover of Cyndi Lauper’s hit Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Morgan previously fronted our show with his Missing video on his 2016 second album Vinyl.
Further info – https://www.kyliefrey.com/
Further info – http://www.williammichaelmorgan.com/
Justin Moore No Stray Dog
Arkansas singer-songwriter Justin Moore, now 42, sings of his upbringing in his Nu Country TV return.
Moore and wife Kate have four children and he performs on stage despite having severe gout in his toes.
We Didn’t Have Much is on his sixth album Straight Outta The Country that preceded his seventh album Stray Dog.
Justin toured Australia in 2012 with Rascal Flatts who played St Kilda Palais with The Band Perry.
Justin previously fronted our show with Outlaws Like Me and Letting The Night Roll from his third album Off The Beaten Track.
Further info – https://www.justinmooremusic.com/
Jenna Paulette Suicide Warnings
Third generation Texan ranch raised singer Jenna Paulette was born in Lewisville and moved with her family to their ranch in Oklahoma.
She was well qualified to sing about the suicide epidemic claiming far too many cowboys.
Drought and market prices are among many causes.
It’s also a fate suffered by their partners far from home.
She name-checked fellow Texan George Strait in her lifeline message
You Ain’t No Cowboy is on her 16 track 2023 debut album The Girl I Was that preceded her second album Horseback and new clothing line.
“The Horseback album is a culmination of perspectives I have of myself to the things my family instilled in me, the men and women I grew up with and the one’s I am blessed to be surrounded by where we live in a small town in West Texas,” Jenna revealed.
Further info – https://www.jennapaulette.com/
Nate Barnes Blueberry Memories
Nate Barnes grew up in South Haven, Michigan and worked at a blueberry farm and a nuclear power plant.
In 2020 he met songwriter Jason Sellers and record label boss Benny Brown in Nashville.
Brown signed him to Quartz Hill Records and he wrote his first single You Ain’t Pretty with Sellers and Jimmy Yeary.
It scored over 12 million views on Tik Tok after 2021 and is on Barnes second album.
It ignited his admiration of a bucolic belle in You Ain’t Pretty video that follows his self-titled 2023 album.
Further info – https://www.natebarnesmusic.com/
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