DAVE'S DIARY - 24/8/09 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 12 - SERIES 12
MIRANDA AND MARTINA HEADLINE NU COUNTRY TV
We have two
dynamic divas - with stark differences - headlining Nu Country TV this
Saturday August 22 - at 9.30 p m on C 31.
Texan fireball Miranda Lambert is a hot tip to tour here over summer to
promote her fourth album Revolution.
Lambert may bring her Oklahoma singing sweetheart Blake Shelton on the
festival circuit.
We also have Kansas born Martina McBride who did a promo tour here the
previous millenium - she and a brother performed a low-key gig in the
Melbourne CBD.
Singing Sydney actor Craig Morrison, Cabramatta cowboy Chuck Stokes and
sin city saddletramps The Yeehaa Boys perform on a show repeated Wednesday
at 3.30 p m and Tuesday at 3.30 am
DEAD FLOWERS FOR REVOLUTION
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Miranda Lambert
showcases the video for new hit Dead Flowers - it did not sprout
from under rolling stones.
Lambert, 25, planted a floral February farewell for fourth disc Revolution,
released on September 29.
"This was really one of those songs that just hit me," she said.
"It just wrote itself. It was about 30 minutes - and I'd written
it. I'd thrown the flowers in the yard that I got for Valentine's Day.
It was sad, you know. They weren't dead, but I had to leave and go on
the road. They were going to be dead when I got back, so that's kind of
where the song came from."
Miranda reunited with director Randee St. Nicholas to shoot the video
after success with previous clip More Than Her.
Randee is a photographer whose video credits include another flower tune
- Alan Jackson's Like Red on a Rose.
"The video is basically written around every single lyric of the
song from dead flowers to Christmas lights to the wind. It's just a kind
of a going through your house type of thing - just being really introverted
and just really depressed about the state of your relationship. I love
it when video directors take the lyrics of your song and really portray
every single little detail because, as a writer, that's my baby, and I
want it to be a real depiction."
Miranda emulates ex Sony label stable mate Gretchen Wilson by keeping
Christmas lights up all year round and goes hunting with beau Shelton
when not tossing out his flowers.
Like McBride, she has six wine lines.
Her mother Bev sells vino from her East Texas hometown Lindale with her
jewellery range.
It's a more fashionable lubricant than those seized by guitarist dad Rick
in his former career as an undercover narcotics officer in Dallas.
That was the city where fellow singer Jon Randall was sired by a cop before
joining Emmylou Harris's Nash Ramblers and becoming one of Lorrie Morgan's
five ex-husbands.
Lambert recently showcased Revolution at the famed Ryman - the
mother ship of the original Grand Ole Opry.
The singer wrote most of her new disc but revived two songs by John Prine
and Julie Miller.
CLICK HERE for a Lambert
feature from the Diary on May 5, 2007.
MARTINA SHINES ON WINES
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Kansas
born chanteuse Martina McBride performs the video for I Just Call
You Mine off her 10th album Shine. McBride, 43 and mother of two, sources her Blackbird wine line from the famed Napa Valley north of San Francisco. Martina and sound engineer husband John, whom she wed on May 15, 1988, operate Blackbird recording studio in Music City. The singer, whose career began in family band The Shiffters in hometown Sharon, population 250, has also written new music she hopes to land in an upcoming film. "I wrote this song with Rachel Thibodeaux and Tommy Lee James, and it just seems like it fits a movie, so we're trying to pitch it to some movie people," Martina said. |
"The
title is Unbreakable. We don't have particular movie in mind. We're
just getting a really good demo so we could go out there and let people
hear it, and see if they want to put it in their movie.
I've had a song in a film, but not a song that I've written. I Love
You was in Runaway Bride and There You Are was in Where
The Heart Is, but those songs were pulled off of albums, and I thought
it would be fun to record a song specifically for a movie."
McBride produced her new album with Dan Huff - studio boss for expat Australasian
superstar Keith Urban.
CLICK HERE
for a Martina McBride in the Diary on July 31, 2007.
CRAIG MORRISON TURNS BACK
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Sydney
singer Craig Morrison was well equipped to act in the video clip for
Turn Back from his album Heaven Knows. Craig has appeared in Australian TV shows A Country Practice, Sons and Daughters, Earth Watch, Secret Valley and the movie Mull Earth Watch. After 15 years on stages the multi-talented artist spent a year lived on the cutting edge of music in country HQ Nashville to source songs. |
That was
after a stint with pop group De Mont.
Craig
had good genetics for both careers - he's the son of Lucky Starr who had
a big hit with late Geoff Mack's song I've Been Everywhere.
Further info - www.craigmorrison.com.au
CHUCK STOKES - LIPSTICK & SIN
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Chuck
Stokes, like Craig, followed his dreams to the U.S. where he performed
in Texas, California and Colorado. Chuck recently drove his wagon south down Highway 31 to Brunswick to launch his band's second album Lipstick & Sin. Chuck's Wagon, not to be confused with seventies band Chuck Wagon & The Wheels, perform the video for Black Road. Stokes grew up in Sydney's wild west badlands beyond urban sprawl of Cabramatta. It was there he learned guitar from a cricket teacher, wrote songs while working as a boilermaker, went to hell and back on booze and dope and indulged his love of roots music as a writer for street magazine On The Street. |
But it was
ascension to the mountain air of Wyoming that spiked Chuck's wagon.
"I fell in love with a cowgirl from Wyoming," Stokes revealed.
"I went and lived there for a few months, and that got me into country
rock - bands such as Outlaws, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker Band,
Flying Burrito Brothers. I have loved country rock ever since."
"When I perform I like to say I grew up out west, Cabramatta West,"
quips Chuck.
"I was the eldest in a family that was not really into music, but
my mum says I use to stand in front of the TV, and rock back and forth
to Gene Autry. She was in Maroubra women's banjo club and they recorded
one record so maybe I get country from there."
Further info - www.chuckswagon.com.au
YEEHAA BOYS IN RED CHUCK WAGON
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Sydney's
Yeehaa Boys return to Nu Country with new single Red Wagon.
The boys, headed by Mick Buckley, are refugees from rock bands diverse
as Ted Mulry Gang, Noiseworks and Radiators.
Buckley graduated from rock to country while living in the U.S. for more
than six years.
He was based in Louisiana and toured the south before coming home.
The Yeehaa Boys filmed their new video for Red Wagon at Randwick
racecourse where Mascot singer Amber Lawrence filmed her clip for The
Mile.
The red wagon rolled off their recent self-titled Blue Pie Records
CD without any free promotion from the Chinese diplomats.
Further info - www.theyeehaaboys.com
MARYSVILLE COLLECTORS CD BONUS
New and renewing
members of Nu Country TV will receive a copy of the Kane-Welch-Kaplin
CD collectors' single Marysville during August and September.
The Kevin Welch penned single, recorded at Salt Studio in East Brighton,
is a bonus gift to viewers - as well as the CD you choose from our rewards
listed below.
It compliments our TV show mini-docco on the trio's donation of their
song to the Vinnies After The Fire CD.
After The Fire is available at Vinnies centres in Victoria and
Tasmania, The Last Record Store - Collingwood, Capricorn Records Warrnambool
and J B Hi-Fi stores.
WIN DIERKS BENTLEY CD
EMI Records has provided Nu Country TV with Arizona born Dierks Bentley's
fifth chart topping CD Feel That Fire.
Bentley won an enthusiastic following on his debut Australian tour in
May with superstars Brooks & Dunn.
Feel That Fire has already produced two U.S. #1 hits - the title
track and Sideways.
Bentley, 33, has scored seven #1 hits since leaving Phoenix for Nashville
as a teenager.
Dierks trails only expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban as most
played male artist on U.S. country radio so far this year.
The father of two is currently blitzing the U.S with West Virginia born
star Brad Paisley on his American Saturday Night tour.
Bentley plans to return to Australia for a second tour to capitalise on
his growing fan base.
The singer has broadened his music by including bluegrass - featuring
the famed McCoury family - on albums dating back to his indie debut Danglin'
Rope.
He has also recorded duets with prolific Grammy winner Alison Krauss and
Texan chanteuse Patty Griffin.
Win Feel That Fire by becoming a member of Nu Country or renewing
membership.
It only costs $20 including postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
WIN SLIM DUSTY CLASSIC BOX SET
We have more
good news for viewers - EMI Records has given us an invaluable collectors'
item - a brace of the 4 Box sets by late Australian country legend Slim
Dusty.
Sittin' On 80 features a lost, classic track discovered by Slim's
widow Joy McKean.
Joy found Give Me Room from a 1997 recording at their home studio
Columbia Lane.
It was written by one of Slim's favourite writers John Dohling - outback
station hand and good mate who passed away in November last year.
Sadly he never heard the final version of Slim's recording of his classic
trucking song.
It has now been released as a single and included on Sittin' On 80.
Slim's legendary Travelling Country Band played on the song that has been
digitally re-mastered by Australia's mastering guru Don Bartley.
All you have to do to win Slim's 4 CD Box set is become a member of Nu
Country TV or renew your membership.
It only costs $20 and includes postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
WIN BROOKS & DUNN CDS
Sony-BMG
has also given us extra copies of the Cowboy Town tour souvenir
CD and bonus Greatest Hits CD.
Viewers who become members or renew membership for just $22 including
postage can win the double CDs.
Please email us at music@nucountry.com.au
with your pledge.
Important note - please email first - don't send your membership until
you have been confirmed as a winner.
Brooks & Dunn have sold more than 30 million album since releasing
their debut disc in 1991.
TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS CD OFFER
Universal
Music has donated copies of teen sensation Taylor Swift's huge selling
second album Fearless to Nu Country TV.
Viewers who become members or renew their membership can win the Fearless
CD.
Swift, 19, played capacity audiences on her debut Australian tour in March
and plans to return in 2010.
Please email us at music@nucountry.com.au
with your pledge.
Important note - please email us first.
Don't send membership cheque until you have been confirmed as the winner.
WIN
CATHERINE BRITT CDS
MIKE BRADY TOO
We have Catherine
Britt's third CD Little Wildflower for viewers who wish to become
members or renew membership.
Catherine, Adam Brand and Mike Brady were among artists who donated their
talent to the Whittlesea Bushfire benefit on Saturday April 4.
Brady donated autographed copies of his Country To Country CD to
viewers who become members or current members who renew their membership.
Mike was also a VIP guest host of Nu Country TV during our eighth series.
So for your membership you can win Mike's CD Country To Country
or Catherine Britt's Little Wildflower CD.
WIN JASMINE RAE & STEVE FORDE CDS
We have the
following CDS for viewers who email our web page and pledge $22 membership
at music@nucountry.com.au .
Telstra Road To Tamworth winner Jasmine Rae's debut CD Look It Up.
We also have Steve Forde's fifth album Guns & Guitars.
Both Rae and Forde performed at the CMC Rocks The Snowy festival at Thredbo.
Jasmine also supported Brooks & Dunn and Bentley on some of their
Australian concerts.
KACEY JONES CD, DVD, POSTER & TEE SHIRT PRIZES
Internationally
renowned country comedienne, singer-songwriter and producer Kacey Jones
has given us a box of autographed merchandise for viewers and members
who renew their membership.
A highlight is her acclaimed tribute disc Kacey Jones Sings Mickey
Newbury that is scheduled for Australian release in July.
We have autographed collectors' copies of the CD for viewers who want
to become members of Nu Country TV.
She also autographed tee shirts and posters for Nu Country members.
For your $22 membership and postage you can take your pick of Kacey memorabilia.
We have limited supplies so please email us at music@nucountry.com.au
first.
WILLIE NELSON EXCLUSIVE BOOK
We also celebrate
Shotgun Willie Nelson's 75th birthday on April 30 with a special giveaway
of his collectors' book.
We have limited stock of Willie Nelson - The Collected Writings Of
A Living Legend - The Facts Of Life And Other Dirty Jokes.
The book, featuring yarns, jokes and Willie Nelson song lyrics, is the
latest addition to out prize treasure trove.
It's available for viewers wanting to become members or current members
wishing to renew their membership.
Please email us at music@nucountry.com.au
for a chance to win a copy of this book with your membership.
We also have other CDS in our library as rewards for your valued membership
- we rely on membership for our survival.