DAVE'S DIARY - 27/6/07 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 4 - SERIES 8
RONNY ELLIOTT CELEBRATES 60 ON NU COUNTRY TV
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Legendary
Floridian singer-songwriter Ronny Elliott belatedly celebrates his
60th birthday on Nu Country TV this Saturday June 30 on C 31. Ronny performs a live version of his song Born In 1947 on the show at 8 p m on Saturday - it will be repeated on Thursday at 2 a.m. |
The singer
reprised the song on his eighth album - a live disc - that was released
this year on his own indie label Blue Heart.
Ronny has been recording since the sixties and opened for Kasey Chambers
in a dirt floor Florida bar on her first American tour.
The singer has won wide exposure on Americana radio and on Nu Country
and PBS-FM in Australia.
CLICK HERE for an
Elliott feature and reviews from the Diary on February 6, 2007.
PAT PAYNE
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Oklahoma
singer Pat Payne has embellished his five independent albums with
songs in movies.
< Pat Payne & Lee Majors |
Majors needs
no introduction but Texan character actor Corbin's careers dates back
to Urban Cowboy in 1980 and The Night The Lights Went Out In
Georgia in 1981 to the recent Dukes Of Hazzard movie, King Of The
Hill and Spielberg's Director's Chair.
Payne, three-time entertainer of the year on Oklahoma Opry, also wrote
the theme song for TV show On The Road.
He recorded his new album during the Texas spring at Willie's Place near
Lone Star state capital Austin.
Further info - http://www.patpayne.net/
ORIGINAL SNAKESKINS
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Melbourne
band The Original Snakeskins followed their studio albums with a live
DVD recorded in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
They perform a video of traditional gospel tune I'll Fly Away,
reincarnated on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
You might awake to the Original Snakeskins if you doze off in the Canterbury
dental surgery of band member Andrew Langton-Joy.
Andrew plays dobro, banjo and mandolin on their third CD We Got Trouble
featuring nine original songs by bassist Steve Hyde and the majority of
vocals by Anne Ungar.
Harmonica player Alan Rose penned Near The Bottle Is Me - a mood modifier.
The band launched the CD at Wesley Anne on Beer Can Hill in Northcote.
Further info - www.theoriginalsnakeskins.com
ANDY ALBERTS DEBUT
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Andy
Alberts has long been a popular performer at Port Fairy folk festival
and other venues on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria. The Gunditjmara singer songwriter was born one of six children at the Framlingham Aboriginal mission. After leaving school at 14 Andy worked in a local factory and Warrnambool hospital as well as fruit picking. Andy has also been an administrator at the local Aboriginal cooperative. |
He started
playing guitar at 12 while watching his sisters and brothers and friends
play and developed a passion for writing with the encouragement of former
Goanna singer Shane Howard and Lee Morgan.
Alberts, renowned for his dry humour, fronts his own band The Walkabouts
and also joined Robbie Bundle and Howard to record Kingfisher Dreaming
as the Buddas at Shane's famed Killarney studio The Shed.
Lost In Suburbia bassist Peter Bird produced Alberts second solo CD Life
And Land, featuring The Howard siblings and diverse local musicians at
Bird's Warrnambool studio YELP.
Andy performs a video of his original song Back Where I Belong on
Nu Country TV
YEE HA BOYS
NSW band
the Yee Ha Boys debut on Nu Country with a video clip of Playin' 8
Ball - title track of their Waterfront Records CD.
They feature Sydney dancer and model Tommy Lee in their vast cast in their
video.
Former Ted Mulry Gang guitarist Mick Buckley formed the band after he
toured the U.S. for six years when he was based in New Orleans.
Buckley injected his Texas swing music into a band featuring members of
rock acts - Noiseworks and The Radiators.
The Yee Ha Boys performed at Gympie Muster and Royal Sydney Show in 2006
and plan to return to the U.S. in 2007.