DAVE'S DIARY - 27/7/09 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 8 - SERIES 12
FELICITY HOSTS NU COUNTRY TV
Tamworth
born singer-songwriter Felicity Urquhart returns to Nu Country TV as host
this Saturday August 1 on C 31 - at 9. 30 pm.
The singer features video clips by fellow Nu Country hosts Troy Cassar-Daley
and Melinda Schneider on the show, repeated on Wednesday at 3.30 pm.
Prolific Australian songwriters Lianna Rose and Paul Kelly also guest
on the show in which Felicity tells all about tours with U.S. stars Rodney
Crowell and Kim Richey.
Hotshot Nashville guitarist Brad Paisley also performs in the video for
his huge recent hit Letter To Me.
TWO WHEELS - NICK BARKER
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Felicity,
34, had a surfeit of riches when she enlisted writing partners for sixth
CD Landing Lights.
She wrote with Ohio born tourist Kim Richey, Alison Krauss's hit writer
Robert Lee Castleman, Randy Scruggs, Mark Selby, expatriate Australian
Jedd Hughes and local lads Mick Thomas, Mark Seymour and Chuck Jenkins.
This week Felicity, fresh from her honeymoon with guitarist Glenn Hannah,
performs the video for Two Wheels - written with Melbourne rock
singer Nick Barker.
CLICK HERE for a Felicity
feature from the Diary on February 17, 2009.
MELINDA SCHNEIDER PAUL KELLY DUET
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Fellow
country star Melinda Schneider also enlists a rock singer - Paul Kelly
- for cross fertilisation. The couple performs a duet on Still Here from her fifth album, Be Yourself. Schneider recruited Kelly after finding him on a rock pool when she was snorkelling at Coogee Beach on the south side of Sydney. Melinda, now 35, recently returned from a U.S. sojourn and launched family musical Schneiderville in Adelaide. The singer hooked up with stone country singer Elizabeth Cook on her trip. Their song Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman was a highlight of Schneider's previous album Stronger that included two other collaborations with Cook. |
That song
- also title track of Cook's fourth album - made the finals of the prestige
2007 Americana Awards in Nashville.
"That was a big thrill to be in the same awards category as Lucinda
Williams and Patty Griffin," Schneider conceded.
Cook, singing spouse of Nashville singer Tim Carroll, joined the cast
of Conway Twitty, The Man, The Music, The Legend, The Musical.
Elizabeth
portrayed one of the latest country star's daughters - Joni.
CLICK HERE for a
Melinda feature from the Diary on July 26, 2008.
TROY - URBAN COWBOY
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Troy Cassar-Daley
and fellow Nu Country TV host Felicity Urquhart are touring to promote
their new albums you can win by becoming a member of Nu Country or renewing
membership.
The duo hosted the 2009 Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth and
share select dates over winter and spring.
Troy and Felicity return to Victoria later in the year as the economy
improves in rural and urban areas.
Cassar-Daley, featured recently on a repeat of an SBS-TV special, and
singing spouse Laurel Edwards credit expatriate Australasian superstar
Keith Urban as the source for his new single and video Big, Big Love.
This week Troy performs in the video for his song filmed in the famed
Bondi Icebergs swimming pool when it was emptied for maintenance.
CLICK HERE for a Troy
interview in the Diary on May 7, 2009.
BRAD PAISLEY - HITS AND LETTERS
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West
Virginia born singer-songwriter Brad Paisley topped Billboard charts
on debut with sixth album American Saturday Night. The disc racked up first-week sales of nearly 130,000 copies - a major feat in this depressed market. Paisley, 36 and a hotshot guitarist, performs the video for Letter to Me from previous album Play on this week's show. "These are nowhere near the best years of your life," he sings in his video. He appreciates his past without regarding it as the golden age. Brad's sold more than 10 million albums and scored 14 No. 1 singles, including most recent hit Then which spent three weeks at the summit. |
CLICK
HERE for a Paisley review from The Diary on December 15, 2008.
LIANNA ROSE BLOOMS
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Lianna
Rose has been a prolific writer since hooking up with artists diverse
as Adam Brand and 2008 Tamworth Starmaker winner Talia Wittman. She released her debut solo album Soak Up The World last year long after leaving Yass to live on the NSW Central coast. Ironically two episodes of Seven Network TV soapie Home & Away featured tracks from her album. Brand, recently signed to major Nashville label Sony, is also on Seven reality show Dancing With The Stars. Lianna performs the video clip for Jack (New Strings) on Nu Country TV on Saturday. Rose penned all 13 songs including exploring the spoils of a marital split in I Want My Tractor Back. In her song guitarist Bill returns home from a gig to find Mary - "her legs were hairy" - and his tractor gone. |
Six months later, successful litigant Mary shakes her lawyer's hand on the court steps before the punch line.
"You
could hear Bill laughing cause away he ran/ with the tractor, he went
and stole it."
CLICK HERE for
a Lianna Rose CD review in the Diary.
WIN FELICITY AND TROY CASSAR-DALEY
Multiple
Golden Guitarist winners Felicity Urquhart and Troy Cassar-Daley return
to Nu Country TV as hosts during Series #12, beginning in June.
You can win autographed copies of the acclaimed new CDS by Felicity and
Troy.
Felicity's sixth album Landing Lights is available here in shops
on Shock.
Troy's seventh CD I Love This Place is on Liberation - the new
recording home of Kasey Chambers and singing spouse Shane Nicholson.
All you have to do is become a member of Nu Country TV or renew membership.
It only costs $20 including postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
and let us know which CD you would like.
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
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.