Pat Boone Headlines Nu Country TV
Florida actor and singer Pat Boone headlines Nu Country TV at 9 pm on Saturday February 22 on Channel 31/ Digital 44.
Texan troubadour Charley Crockett and Randwick singing nurse Ben Ransom return to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Canadian singing actor Madeline Merlo, Tennesseans Dustin Lynch and Conner Smith and Louisiana born Dylan Scott 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/
Boone Election Commentary
Before that Florida actor and singer Pat Boone gives viewers his take on the recent American election.
He released Where Did America Go after a long career with politicians and other power brokers.
Pat, now 90, has sold more than 45 million albums and starred in 12 Hollywood movies.
Boone was the second biggest chart artist of the 1950s behind Elvis Presley.
Pat’s singing spouse Shirley died in 2019 at 84 long after they wed in 1953.
Boone has four daughters, 16 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
He released Country Jubilee 2LP/2CD album in September of 2023 which boasts 25 songs – five are Boone’s Top 100 Country recordings.
It includes Boone’s hit song Grits featuring Ray Stevens, Gatlin Brothers, Lorrie Morgan, Deborah Allen and Dean Miller and classic duet and Billboard #1 hit You And I with Crystal Gayle.
He is weekly host of his SiriusXM radio show The Pat Boone Hour and book tour promoting IF – The Eternal Choice We All Must Make – his 28th.
Further info – https://www.patboone.com/
Charley Crockett America View
Frequent Aussie tourist Charley Crockett also delivers a plea to his country on his return to our show.
The Texan troubadour performs his America video from his 13th album $10 Dollar Cowboy on his Son of Davy label.
Charley, now 40, toured here in 2023 and again in 2024.
He wrote many songs on his tour bus on tours in casinos and alley pit stops
Crockett previously fronted our show with I’m Just A Clown, Music City U.S.A, Round This World, I Feel For You, Fool Somebody Else and Run Horse Run videos.
CLICK HERE for a Charley Crockett feature in the Diary on January 23, 2023.
CLICK HERE for a live Northcote Theatre review in our Concert section on March 6, 2023.
Ben Ransom New Partner In Crime
Randwick singer-nurse Ben Ransom finds a new partner in crime in his Nu Country TV return.
Ben, 50 and dad of two, took a break from his nursing and wrote songs as therapy after the deaths of his mother at 62 and his brother at 48 from brain cancer.
He performs Partner In Crime from his sixth album this week after he fronted our show with Living and Raise Some Hell.
When he toured Europe in 1999 he was an Anaesthesia nurse while singing for his supper.
It enabled him to keep dingoes from his door as he used the Walkabout Hotel as his mecca and exposed his music to enthusiastic expatriate Australians and others on the Continent and way beyond.
His mother inspired maternal wisdom song Mamma Said and family tragedies sourced Never Can Tell and Coming Down In Spades from Brave New World inspired by Aldous Huxley.
CLICK HERE for a Ransom feature in The Diary on March 22, 2021.
Madeline Merlo And Dustin Lynch
Canadian singing actor Madeline Merlo and Tennessean Dustin Lynch duet on Broken Heart Thing on Merlo’s third EP One House Down From The Girl Next Door.
Madeleine, 31, hails from British Columbia.
She is a vast contrast to Lynch’s last Nu Country duet partner – hip hopper Jelly Roll.
Madeline teamed with Jana Kramer and Sophie Tweed-Simmons in the Country Crush movie.
Broken Heart Thing follows her debut album Free Soul.
Dustin, now 40, and Jelly Roll, aged 39, won plenty of spectators when they rode in a Chevvy for their Chevrolet video on Dustin’s sixth album Killed The Cowboy in 2023.
Jelly Roll released 10 albums after serving jail time for drugs.
Dustin moved from Tullahoma to Nashville in 2003 and studied Biology and Chemistry at Lipscomb University.
Lynch previously fronted our show with Small Town Boy from his third album Current Mood.
Further info – https://www.dustinlynchmusic.com/
Further info – https://www.madelinemerlo.com/
Dylan Scott Cowboy Capers
Louisianna born singer-songwriter Dylan Scott acts out his western dreams in his Nu Country TV return.
Dylan, now 34, showed why he thinks he is out on the range in his You’d Think I Was A Cowboy video that follows his second album Living My Best Life.
He hit Nashville at 15 with his dad who played guitar with Freddy Fender and Freddie Hart.
Dylan played CMC Rocks Queensland festival in 2019 and fronted our show with his Nothing To Do Town and Hooked videos.
He penned Hooked with expat Novocastrian Morgan Evans.
Dylan also fronted Nu Country with Delaware singer Jimmie Allen in their In Our Blood video.
Further info – https://dylanscottcountry.com/
Storyteller Conner Smith Returns
Nashville born Conner Smith proves a great storyteller on his return to our show.
Connor, now 24, had plenty of history writing stories.
He wrote his first song aged six and signed a publishing deal at nine.
Conner’s Nashville mother interviewed songwriters in her work when he was a child.
Smith wrote songs with Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell at high school.
His Storyteller video follows his 2024 debut album Smoky Mountains.
Conner also fronted Nu Country with Learn From It that joined Tennessee on his debut Valory album.
Further info – https://www.connersmithmusic.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 Nu Country TV members or renewing memberships.
They include Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kip Moore, Carrie Underwood and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
