Lukas Nelson And Family Band Headline Nu Country TV
Lukas Nelson is joined by his Family Band, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks as they headline Nu Country TV on Saturday February 1 at 9 pm on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Louisianna lass Lainey Wilson boomerangs with a double shot to the show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Kiwi star Steffany Beck, Texan band Midland and Sydney singer-songwriter Coral Renee perform on the program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Lukas Nelson, Family Band. Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks
Lukas Nelson teams with his Family Band, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks as they honour his dad Shotgun Willie Nelson on the eve of his 92nd birthday on April 29.
Lukas, 36, joins Susan and Derek in their revamped version of Whiskey River that Willie wrote with the late Johnny Bush in 1972.
It was on Bush’s album of the same name and Willie turned it into a big hit on his 1973 album Shotgun Willie.
Lukas – one of Willie’s eight children from his four marriages – celebrated his 36th birthday on Christmas Day.
He recently fronted our show with West Virginian Sierra Ferrell and the Travelling McCourys with Someone Like You and High Sierra videos.
Lukas plans to follow Tim McGraw as a pilot and fly to Uluru on his next Australian tour
Click Here for a Lukas Nelson interview in The Diary on January 2, 2024.
Lainey Wilson Double Shot Behind Bars
Grammy winning Louisiana lass Lainey Wilson boomerangs to Behind Bars with a double shot after she toured here last March with Jackson Dean and Kameron Marlowe.
Lainey, now 32, also appeared in Yellowstone TV show.
This week she starts singing in her pick-up truck’s shotgun seat in her 4x4xU video.
She finished with a ring on her finger after finding her beau had been cheating on her in her Ring Finger video.
Yes, she got the ring and gave that dazed dude the finger and the bird.
Both songs are among 15 Lainey wrote for her fifth album Whirlwind released on August 23.
Lainey won Entertainer of Year and Female Artist of Year and Music Event of Year for Save Me Jelly Roll at Academy of Country Music Awards in May.
Wilson has won six Academy Of Country Music Awards and seven Country Music Association Awards.
Lainey joined expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban on our show in their Go Home With You video.
She fronted Nu Country TV with Texas When I Die, You Can’t Make Old Friends, Watermelon Moonshine, Wildflowers And Wild Horses, God Bless Texas and Hang Tight Honey.
CLICK HERE for our Lainey Wilson 2024 concert review.
Midland Are Barely Blue
Grammy winning Texan trio Midland return to our show after opening for singer-actor Tim McGraw and his singing spouse Faith Hill on one of his Australian tours.
They also headlined their own tours here.
Midland hails from Dripping Springs where Willie Nelson hosted some of his 44 July 4 picnics and performs Barely Blue – their sixth album title track.
They also fronted our show with Getting Lucky and Burn Out.
They took their name from Kentuckian singing actor Dwight Yoakam’s song Fair To Midland and turned cash flow into lucrative liquidity with wry word play in Top 10 hit Drinking Problem – one of 15 songs they wrote at Sonic Ranch near El Paso in West Texas.
Lead singer Mark Wystrach was an actor-underwear model before meeting bassist-video director Cameron Duddy and lead guitarist Jess Carson at Jess’s wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The trio released a five-song EP that features Drinking Problem written with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally who also produced it.
Further info – https://midlandofficial.com/
Steffany Beck With A Dolly Question
Christchurch singer-songwriter Steffany Beck debuts on our show with a question for a singing movie queen.
She performs What Would Dolly Do from her second EP Pillars that followed debut 2019 EP Blue Eyed Girl.
Steffany recorded her album with award-winning producer Ben Edwards from The Sitting Room.
Steffany writes songs with Aotearoa singer-songwriter Bic Runga and performs live with Jason Kerrison – Op Shop lead singer.
She won national songwriting competitions and performed at Christmas in the Park, NZ Spirit Festival, TSB Festival of Lights, Summer Sundays and South Island Wine and Food Festival with Kaylee Bell.
Further info – https://www.facebook.com/steffanybeckmusic/
Coral Renee Turns Pink
Sydney singer-songwriter Coral Renee chooses pink for her Nu Country TV debut.
Coral, 18, was filmed by Josh and Tracy Beveridge at Roca Cafe Pink in Ramsgate.
They also filmed Coral at Country Charm, East To Western Wear in Charmhaven.
Belle Norman played her as a child before Coral updated to teenage pink.
Pink Is My Colour is her debut single.
“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 become my colour.”
Coral graduated from Junior Academy of Country Music and Talent Development Project with a concert at ICC Sydney in 2024.
She also performed at Dungong and Tamworth country festivals and St Albans Folk Festival.
Further info – https://coralrenee.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 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, 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.
