Alex Miller and Luke Combs headline Nu Country TV
Kentucky young gun Alex Miller and North Carolina chart topper Luke Combs headline Nu Country TV on Saturday September 28 at 9.30 pm on Channel 31/ Digital 44 with paternal paeans.
Texan Tracy Lawrence, Oklahoma singer-songwriter-TV show judge Blake Shelton and New York actor rapper Post Malone appear on our AFL Grand final show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Lake Bolac singer-songwriter Neil Murray and Virginian Maggie Antone also appear on the program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
This series is dedicated to late Nu Country TV host and treasurer Mid-Pacific Bob Olson and Vice President Rod Browne.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Alex Miller Honours his Grandfather
Kentuckian singer-songwriter Alex Miller illustrates his family’s third generation legacy with another eulogy for his late grandfather.
Alex, just 21, sings about how he worked on his grandpa’s farm as a child.
At 6 foot 6 Miller proves he was a handy harvester.
My Daddy’s Dad is the title track of his new EP on Billy Jam Records that follows two albums.
Miller mourned late grandfather, GB Miller, who died at 75 on July 3 in 2022 in his previous Nu Country appearance in When God Made The South.
Miller grew up on his family farm in Lancaster and was 17 when he fronted American Idol.
Alex previously graced our show with his Putting Up Hay, Girl I Know A Guy, Through With You and Don’t Let The Barn Door Hit Ya videos.
Further info – https://alexmillercountry.com/
Luke Combs Paternal Paean
North Carolina star Luke Combs boomerangs to Nu Country with a paternal paean that follows his previous songs about his two sons Tex and Beau.
Luke, now 34, wrote My Old Man Was Right with Lori McKenna.
It’s on his fifth album Fathers And Sons that was released on June 14.
Combs recently fronted our show with The Man He Sees In Me, Little Country Boys and Take Me Out To The Ball Game that were inspired by his three generations of his family.
Luke also inspired AFL icons including Eddie Betts and Brisbane star Charlie Cameron to attend his sold out Australian concerts last year.
CLICK HERE for Luke’s What You See Is What You Get CD feature in The Diary on November 25, 2019.
CLICK HERE for his concert review on August 20, 2023.
Tracy Lawrence Drinking Double Shot
Veteran Texan actor and singer-songwriter Tracy Lawrence showcases why he needs liquid refreshments in his music.
Tracy, now 56, reveals he could use a drink or two to ease his marital mayhem in our drinking double shot.
The first two of thrice wed Tracy’s wives were rodeo riders and Dallas Cowgirls cheer leaders
I Could Use One is on his 21st album.
Tracy previously fronted our show with his Don’t Drink Whiskey video that was based on a cowboy and ballerina struggling with their relationship.
Don’t Drink Whiskey is on Hindsight 2020, Volume 3: Angelina – his 20th album in a 35-year career.
Lawrence and songwriter Flip Anderson wrote lyrics and music for Storming Heaven: The Musical – based on Denise Giardina’s award-winning novel about labour strife in southern West Virginia coalfields in 1920-21.
Tracy appeared in L.A. Dirt movie filmed around Mobile, Alabama, and plays Uncle Charlie to nephew, Ty Hargrove and performed his Dirt Track Demon on the soundtrack.
Further info – http://www.tracylawrence.com
Blake Shelton and Post Malone
Oklahoma singer-songwriter, restaurateur and TV show host-mentor Blake Shelton and New York actor-rapper Post Malone prove why they have good reason to pour drinks in their duet video.
Thrice wed Shelton, now 48, was once wed to Texan star Miranda Lambert.
He now shares drinks with third wife – fellow singer Gwen Stefani on July 3, 2021.
They debuted their Nobody But You video on Nu Country.
Rapper Malone, now 29, included Pour Me A Drink on his sixth album F-1Trillion.
Shelton previously fronted our show with his Come Back As A Country Boy video that follows his 14th album Body Language.
Blake was also joined by the Pistol Annies on a feisty flashback to a rural romp with pick-up trucks and wildlife on a previous Nu Country show with Boys Round Here – originally on his 2013 album Based On A True Story.
The Pistol Annies features his former singing spouse Lambert and released four albums between their solo discs.
Shelton opened his 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.
Neil Murray Van Diemen’s Land History Lesson
Western district singer-songwriter Neil Murray headed south to Van Diemen’s Land for his return to our show.
Neil, now 68, was born in Ararat and raised on his family farm at Lake Bolac.
He was co-founder of the Warumpi Band and The Rainmakers and has written many songs about our vast outback and several books.
He also ventured into Van Diemen’s Land and Flinders Island for his historic social comment tune Tears of Wybalenna from his 10th album The Telling.
Tears of Wybalenna tells of treachery and devastation that befell Tasmania’s First Nations people in the early years of colonisation.
“I had a rough, general knowledge of Tasmania’s history and the devastating impact on its First People but it didn’t really hit me emotionally until I stood in the graveyard at Wybalenna,” Murray revealed.
“The grief and sadness was palpable. How those old people were betrayed. Their suffering and loss. It was not difficult to extrapolate or to conclude. Lines like: “all the sorrow in the world can be traced right back to an invading force and the humanity they lack”- were just there in the ether. It wasn’t a labour. But I was compelled to it out of a kind of love. So those Old People, their story, their voices, are still heard and not forgotten.”
The video for Tears of Wybalenna was filmed and directed by Jin Tommo with footage of Wybalenna, Flinders Island supplied by Sammi Gowthorp.
In 1995 Murray was awarded APRA song of the year for My Island Home – originally written for the Warumpi Band and re-recorded by Christine Anu.
My Island Home was featured in the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Maggie Antone Moonshine
Virginian export Maggie Antone proves that Richmond is not just the headquarters of the historic AFL team.
It was way up north in Richmond, Virginia, that she was born and hit the bars and clubs to showcase her music.
Maggie, just 21, developed a huge fan base from her online music.
This week she performed her Johnny Moonshine video to promote her second album Rhinestoned that also includes her hits Mess With Texas and Suburban Outlaw.
Further info – https://maggieantone.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 membership.
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 80, and son Shooter, 44.
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 a Nu Country TV member or renewing memberships.
They include Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kip Moore, Carrie Underwood and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
