TERRI
CLARK - FROM MEDICINE HAT TO MELBOURNE
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Canadian
chanteuse Terri Clark debuts on Nu Country TV on Saturday on the eve
of her belated Australian tour in January of 2004. The chart topping Medicine Hat raised singer-songwriter and guitarist follows hot on the heels of fellow Canadian Fred Eaglesmith on the Australian scene. But the long tall troubadour won't be playing Melbourne - she follows Kevin Welch into Geelong and Adam Harvey into Wimmera wheat belt HQ Horsham. Clark, 36, performs her hit I Want To Do It All from her big selling fifth album, Pain to Kill. |
The singer
is bringing a hot 8-piece band that features her lead guitarist on pedal
steel guitar and a fiddle player purloined from Larry Cordle and Lonesome
Standard Time.
CLICK HERE for an exclusive
interview with Terri.
FRED EAGLESMITH - ANOTHER CANUCK DOG SONG
| Fred
Eaglesmith follows award-winning Geelong born Adam Harvey with a live
version of a dog ditty. There's one major difference - Fred's crafty canine is very much alive in The Dog Song cut live at the Corner Hotel in Richmond. Eaglesmith, with 12 albums and two tribute discs under his belt, has a fascination with dogs, horses, tractors, trucks, trains, cars and other forms or rural and urban transport. Nu Country TV director captures Fred at his story telling best at the prestige hotel in the suburb which Captain Blood - Jack Dyer - called home in his halcyon VFL days. |
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CLICK HERE for Fred's hints on how to hot wire a John Deere B tractor from the diary on November 6.
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT AND HOW TO WIN GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT DVD
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Clement
is the writer of such classic Johnny Cash songs as Flushed From
The Bathroom Of Your Heart, The One On The Right Is On The Left,
Ballad Of A Teenage Queen and Egg Sucking Dog. Cowboy Jack Clement |
Legendary
Memphis born singer-songwriter, producer and movie financier Cowboy Jack
Clement features in Ask The Guru this week.
And to learn how to win the DVD, CLICK
HERE
RED HOT POKER DOTS
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Melbourne
band Red Hot Poker Dots have returned home after an extensive tour
of the hot spots of Texas, Tennessee, California, Georgia and London. The group was one of the highlights of the recent Jackson St festival in St Kilda with Nu Country cartoonist Fred Negro & Shonky Tonk, Barnlaid and the Mary Hillbillies. That was where our director Peter Hosking filmed the band against an amazing backdrop of hay throwing fights by real children and retired children from parking meter hell. |
The band
suffered and performed the apt song 'Tequila Amnesia' for a wired
crowd and gave us a copy of their CD, Thirty Smile Square, for
a Nu Country member to win.
CLICK HERE for a short story
on Red Hot Poker Dots.
CARTER & CARTER
| Ringwood
duo Carter & Carter is a hot favourite to break a Victorian drought
with more wins in the Golden Guitar awards in Tamworth in January
of 2004. The duo has reached four of the finals in the 32nd Australian Country Music Awards with songs from their second independent album, Every Minute. We feature their video for their single 'Dancing Shoes' - a Top 10 finalist in the Vocal Group/duo section. CLICK HERE for a Carter & Carter story. |
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BRENT PARLANE INTERVIEW
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Oxley
reared Nu Country TV host Paul Hicks interviews expatriate Kiwi singer
Brent Parlane about his colourful 20 year plus career. The Broken Spoke singer gleans vital info from Parlane who won a best new talent Gold Guitar in Tamworth at the ripe young age of 40. Parlane also performs a live version of the title track of his Nash Chambers produced disc 'The Closest.' CLICK HERE for a story on Parlane from the diary on October 14. |
THE WOLVERINES CROCODILE TEARS
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expatriate Kiwi Darcy LeYear fronts the Wolverines live at the John
Barleycorn Hotel in Collingwood. Our fitness fanatic director Peter Hosking pedalled his pushbike with camera on his broad shoulders to the gig to catch the trio perform 'Crocodile Tears.' CLICK HERE for a story on The Wolverines from the diary on June 19. |
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