Small Town Romance Headline Nu Country TV
Melbourne family duo Small Town Romance headline Nu Country TV this Saturday December 14 in new time slot – 9 pm – on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Michigan bluegrass ace Billy Strings and Oklahoma singer-songwriter rancher C. J. Garton boomerang to the show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
NSW country singer Katie Brook and Kentuckian Taylor Austin Dye showcase a Behind Bars double shot of fake fantasies on the program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Wollongong singer-songwriter-screenwriter James Stewart Keene also returns with strident social comment.
Nu Country TV won’t air on December 21 as Channel 31 is running its annual Christmas Carols but will return on December 28.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Small Town Romance Find Some Wild Boys
Melbourne family duo Small Town Romance return to our show with their celebratory video of some wild boys.
Flora Smith and Jim Arneman formed their duo many years ago.
Jim is the son of country queen Anne Kirkpatrick and grandson of late Slim Dusty and Joy McKean.
Wild Boys is an intimate portrait of two brothers and their mother that was recorded live in one take.
“We’ve all known young men who fly too close to the sun,” Flora revealed. “Some get away with it, grow up, and those wild years become fodder for nostalgia filled anecdotes, and some of these beautiful boys are lost. The older I get, the more I think about the mothers, holding their breath, and praying that their wild boys make it to the other side.”
Small Town Romance blend country, folk, Australiana, Tex-Mex and roots influences in their live and recorded music.
Wild Boys is the third single on their second album Home Fires released on August 23, via MGM Distribution.
They previously fronted our show with their Timber And Stone video.
CLICK HERE for our review of their debut album on November 14, 2016.
Billy Strings Bluegrass Leadfoot
Michigan born bluegrass ace Billy Strings boomerangs to our show with some hilarious highway humour.
Billy, just 32, shows a comic skill in parodying dangerous drivers.
He was joined by much older peers on that lost highway.
Leadfootis on his sixth album Highway Prayers.
Billy also fronted Nu Country with In The Morning Light and Love And Regret from fifth album Renewal, Watch It Fall from fourth album Home, Long Journey Home with dad Terry and mother Debra, and Willie Nelson tribute Uncloudy Day.
Strings has another duet The Great Divide with North Carolina outlaw chart topper, CMA Entertainer Of The Year and February Australian tourist Luke Combs.
Further info – https://www.billystrings.com/
Oklahoma Rancher C J Garton
Oklahoma rancher C. J Garton reaches into his family memory bank in his return to our show.
The ex-naval veteran Garton sourced many songs from his military career.
The sixth-generation rancher’s family farm reaches back 140 years.
It was fertile fodder in his song 1883 for the Yellowstone series.
C.J. also has two horses Pancho & Lefty named after the steeds in the late Texan Townes Van Zandt’s song of that name.
This time Garton, now 41, followed old flames in his Oklahoma Wind video.
It’s on his ninth album Ain’t No Good Chain Gang.
Further info – https://cjgarton.com/
Katie Brooke Behind Bars
Beef farm bred singer-songwriter Katie Brooke debuts on Behind Bars in our double shot of fake fantasies.
Katie rides a horse and a couch in a paddock on her family beef ranch in her Can’t Fake That video that follows her debut album Sticks, Stones and Stories.
Katie still lives on the farm where she was raised at Mummulgum in Northern NSW.
Mummulgum is a small rural village on Shannon Brook between Tenterfield and Casino on the Bruxner Highway.
The Academy of Country Music junior and senior graduate has performed with Gina Jeffreys and opened for Shannon Noll and The Black Sorrows.
She is also an ambassador with the Thomas Cook Clothing Company.
Further info – https://www.katiebrookemusic.com/
Taylor Austin Dye Fake Ring
Boonesville belle Taylor Austin Dye returns to Behind Bars with a saga detailing how she got a fake pawn shop ring from a former beau.
It was not her singing spouse Josh Kerr whom she wed in 2020.
Taylor, now 28, was born in Oklahoma and lived in Kentucky.
Fake Ring fuels Taylor’s second solo album that follows 2023 debut Out Of These Hills.
She previously fronted our show with her Almost Oklahoma, Bible Belt and No Good Time Girl videos.
She recorded three albums with Maddie Font as Maddie And Tae and performs and records with her band Ride Or Dyes.
They fronted our show in their Fly and Girl In A Country Song videos they performed on their 2015 Australian tour with Lady Antebellum and Kristian Bush.
“I have been playing and singing since I was 5 years old,” Dye revealed.
“I always knew I wanted to be an artist and have been pursuing it in some way or another ever since.”
Further info – https://www.tayloraustindye.com/
James Stewart Keene Political Parody
Wollongong singer-songwriter-screenwriter James Stewart Keene returns to Nu Country TV with his punchy political parody.
He nails Trump chumps on their walls in his democracy dreams.
James didn’t need to go to Mexico to be locked out – he found walls closer to his home in the tune produced by Michael Carpenter at The House Studio in Sydney.
Keene said the song came quickly without much effort.
“There is so much going on in the world right now, it’s a very big cause for concern with armed conflicts and environmental disasters happening,” Keene revealed.
“The more that people can have a say in what’s going on can only lead to the world becoming a better place. Regardless of your political views, I believe democratic values will always prevail.”
The Master Plan is on a new disc that follows his 2017 second album Charm Offensive.
Keene fronted our show with Gambling While You’re Drinking and Stroke Of The Government Pen that he wrote with award winning fellow songwriter Allan Caswell.
James collaborated with The Bushwackers on Stroke Of The Governments’ Pen – perfect dam busting anthem for Sherbrooke Down: The Road to Cataract.
Further info – https://www.jamesstewartkeene.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 81, and son Shooter, 45.
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.
