DAVE'S DIARY - 10/6/12 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 2 - SERIES 18
NU COUNTRY DJ HEADLINES EPISODE 2
Shipwreck
Coast singer-songwriter and Nu Country FM DJ Lee Sonny Boy Morgan debuts
on Nu Country TV this Wednesday June 13 on C 31.
Morgan, host of our indigenous music show during our Beer Can Hill era,
performs on the 10 pm show, edited by Ashley Hall.
Lee sings about reconciliation with some high profile bush buddies on
the show repeated Thursdays at 4.30 pm and Saturdays - 11.30 pm.
That's after international stars Toby Keith, Eric Church and young guns
Bradley Gaskin and Chris Young perform songs about the joys of liquid
libation.
Queenslander Jacqui Ryan also debuts on Nu Country with her new clip.
SONNY BOY MORGAN
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It's
a long way from the Shipwreck Coast to the verdant green Jolimont
footy and cricket colosseum in Jolimont - home of our national games.
The
member of the Gunditjmara Kirrae Whurrong clan and grandson of late
wisdom man Banjo Clarke performs on albums by artists diverse as
Howard, Roach, Ruby Hunter, Jessica Mauboy, Dean Geyer and Mary
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Lee played 36th Port Fairy folk festival in March with Marcia and Damian Howard and other homegrown artists - his CV also includes local Tarerer festival near Tower Hill, Apollo Bay and St Kilda.
His new album
features special guests including Howard, Roach and Dan Sultan with pedal
steel, mandolin and Hammond.
Lee may have not reached football heights of Howard and Madden clans but
his mum and dad displayed immaculate taste when they graced famed Continental
Café to catch the equally legendary Flying Burrito Brothers concert.
Further info - www.myspace.com/leesonnyboymorgan
ERIC RETURNS TO CHURCH OF HIS CHOICE
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North
Carolina country star Eric Church returns to Nu Country with the
video for the first of our four-pack of drinking songs. Controversy is a healthy sales tool for Church in his wars with concert scalpers, fake Facebook pages and a recent riot when his Buffalo concert was cancelled because of dangerous weather.
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Church name
checks the late Waylon Jennings in Like Jesus Does and Johnny Cash in
Country Music Jesus - a satiric swipe at critics exposing faux
outlaws.
He also chanced his arm with songs challenging radio gatekeepers.
"If
I was still a songwriter instead of an artist, I'd never get anyone to
record Smoke A Little Smoke and I'm Getting Stoned,"
Church said.
"None of that stuff would have ever been touched. I mean, the second
single we ever released was Two Pink Lines about teen pregnancy.
You aren't supposed to write that kind of stuff for a country audience.
Before that song came out, I had my label telling me, "You can't
be a new artist and put out stuff like this. They've told me I'm crazy
so many times.
They said Smoke A Little Smoke was career suicide. They said country
radio wouldn't touch it, that it would never be a hit but that song ended
up being the one that changed our whole career."
CLICK HERE for a Church
feature in the Diary on October 18.
TOBY KEITH CUPS RADIO
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Oklahoma
star Toby Keith was challenging radio and Music Row unholy bovines long
before Church.
So it's no surprise he rode across the myopic mainstream moat with his
drinking ditty Red Solo Cup.
It's probably the first time we heard Freddy Mac and testicles in the
same country song.
I know a septuagenarian Melbourne radio programmer who censored his station's
version so he wouldn't offend blue rinse belles or public service ponces.
The irony was not lost on TV viewers whose evening diet was flooded with
crime families exercising the ignoble art of target shooting on the killing
fields of a suburb where the station blares out one of the strongest signals
in community radio.
Testes may indeed be an integral part of the daily diet of these chappies
who fled their war torn homelands to enjoy the lucky country freedoms.
Red Solo Cup is on Clancy's Tavern - the 17th album by Keith,
now 51 and father of country singer daughter Krystal.
Keith, 50, is also purveyor of rarities like I'll Never Smoke Weed
With Willie - a humorous eulogy to another septuagenarian who shared
billing with him in his movie Beer For My Horses.
Forbes recently rated Keith the highest earning country-music performer
with his music and investments earning more than $50 million in the past
decade.
They include his chain of I Love This Bar & Grill restaurants, Show
Dog record label, Mezcal Tequila brand, horse breeding and movie Broken
Bridges.
CLICK HERE for a Keith
feature in the Diary on January 25, 2011.
BRADLEY GASKIN & BARTENDERS
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Alabama singer-songwriter
Bradley Gaskin sounds a lot like Georgian singing actor Travis Tritt when
he bounces onstage.
The Duck Springs born baritone wrote Mr Bartender when he worked
on sheet metal with his dad in 2005.
It became a hit in 2011 after John Rich of Big & Rich discovered Bradley
- 33 and father of a young daughter.
Gaskin was hanging drywall and he would spend his lunch break writing
songs on pieces of Sheetrock paper.
At the urging of his wife, Gaskin uploaded some of his songs to MySpace
- Celebrity Apprentice contestant Rich's development company invited him
perform at the Get Rich Talent Search that he won.
Gaskin performs the video this week for Mr. Bartender - his self-penned
debut that sounds like a timeless country classic as he asks the bartender
for a shot to relieve his heartache.
Bradley crafts his classic country, distilled through his honky-tonk heroes
Keith Whitley, Merle Haggard and George Jones.
Bradley quit high school, got a GED degree and joined his father in the
Sheetrock business, hanging drywall in house after house.
He had been writing songs since age 12 and continued to polish his craft,
often jotting down lyrics on Sheetrock paper at jobs.
He also continued singing in churches, but was fired as an entertainer
at a local Mexican restaurant for being "too traditional."
Exploratory trips to Nashville proved fruitless except for a brief stint
singing on the morning shift at Robert's Western World on Broadway. After
his last Robert's gig he toured the nearby Ryman Auditorium and the security
guard on duty invited him to sing to the tourists who were there.
Gaskin released his second single Diamonds Make Babies - also cut
by Dierks Bentley - but split from Sony on June 2 in an amalgamation.
Further Info - www.bradleygaskin.com
CHRIS YOUNG - POURS PETROL AND HITS
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Tennessean
Chris Young makes the most of pumping petrol for a trio of women in
his video for his fifth #1 hit You. The 2006 Nashville Star winner Chris Young gave new meaning to drive way service at the pump. His pure country baritone extended to resisting tyre kicking damsels. The Murfreesboro minstrel left the trio in his slipstream as he decamped in his pick-up truck with his guitar. Young worked with video director Chris Hicky who also shot his clip for The Man I Want to Be. They chose the same locale to bring the song to life - rustic Watertown 40 miles east of Nashville. "Since we did that first video, everything we've put out has gone No. 1 and then we've got this new song," Young revealed. |
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shot the videos in the exact same spot. It's in Watertown and there's
a lot of videos shot out there, but we actually used the same building
that we shot in front of at beginning of The Man I Want to Be for
this whole video. It's really cool because they don't look alike. If you
watch it you're not going to go, "Oh, that looks just like the other
one." So it's cool how they used props and everything to change it
around. Obviously I love the way he shoots. One of the things he's so
great about is he knows when he has a shot. He's not one of those guys
going.
"I think we got it, but let's do two more takes just to be safe."
Once he sees it and he knows he's got it, he moves on."
Young celebrates his 27th birthday on June 12 and wrote seven of the 10
songs on third album Neon including You with Luke Laird.
"This is the only song we've ever written together," Young said.
"It was really good, actually. It was really comfortable. This is
one of the few songs I've ever written where we didn't have a hook. We
just kind of started from the beginning with a little melody and started
writing, and we're like, 'hopefully, this will turn into something."
And it did."
Further Info - www.chrisyoungcountry.com/
JACQUI RYAN
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Brisbane
singer-songwriter Jacqui Ryan debuts on Nu Country with the video for
her song I Need You Now - co-written with Lynn Bowtell.
It's the third single from her 2010 album Break Through.
Jacqui is a seasoned performer, starting dance aged 3 and graduating to
music at 12.
Jacqui released self funded EP A Moment in Time in 2007 with two
songs on the Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack in 2009.
Further info - www.jacquiryan.com/music
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