DAVE'S DIARY - 5/7/10 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 5 - SERIES 14
BENDIGO BELLE BUSHFIRE BENEFACTOR
Bendigo born
Kelly Brooks was so moved by Black Saturday bushfires she financed and
recorded a song and video clip about the disaster.
Her clip Watching Over Them is one of the highlights of Nu Country
TV this Saturday July 10 at 10 p m on C 31.
Texan singer Miranda Lambert also returns with the video for her chart
topping homage to a childhood home.
Fellow Texan Sunny Sweeney and Oregon quarter horse breeder singer Joni
Harms returns with a video recorded in Queensland.
Singing superstar and actor Tim McGraw uses a weather metaphor in an historic
hit on the eve of his Australian tour in September.
Former Sydney teacher Luke O'Shea and Dunkeld raised sisters Sunny Cowgirls
strut their stuff here and in China on a show repeated at 1 am and 3.30
p m on Wednesday and online at C 31 web page.
KELLY BROOKS HEADLINER
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Bendigo born
singer Kelly Brooks put her cold hard cash where her heart was when she
recorded her tribute to a Black Saturday bushfire survivor.
The former Deal or No Deal model financed Nashville recording sessions
with one time Saltbush pedal steel guitarist Mark Moffatt.
She also filmed the video for Watching Over Them on the Rubicon
farm where she was raised - right in the heart of the bushfires.
Kelly was home on the farm fighting the fires when they hit Bendigo.
Her song and video, shot by a snake-strewn riverbank, reflects the story
of a man who lost everything in the Victorian bushfires but his faith.
Kelly wrote her first song at 11 about her pet sheep Holly and wrote and
directed three short films after studying film and TV production at RMIT.
After graduation she bought an $800 car in Florida and drove to Nashville
with her guitar in the back and $1000 dollars in the bank.
She worked on a farm outside Nashville driving tractors and exercising
horses in return for board at the farmhouse.
"During the day I would go to Nashville and start the difficult process
of meeting people, writing songs and establishing myself there,"
Kelly said.
"I managed to save up and record a five track demo but was unhappy
with how they turned about because they were not my songs and I didn't
feel the emotion I was trying to portray.
Brooks, a 2007 Tamworth Starmaker finalist, also recorded another song
Cold As You with Moffatt.
She now lives Broadbeach on the Gold Coast and donated proceeds from the
songs sales to the Red Cross bushfire appeal.
The singer is sponsored by Maton Guitars.
Further info - www.kellybrooksmusic.com
MIRANDA LAMBERT
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Miranda Lambert
topped charts for more than a month with The House That Built Me
from her fourth album Revolution.
That's why we belatedly feature the video for the song - evocative tale
of returning to a childhood home occupied by new owners - this week.
Unlike Kelly, the singer arrived by bus and didn't have to fight fires
with her family.
Fellow Texan Allan Shamblin wrote Miranda's song with Tim McGraw hit writer
Tom Douglas about seven years ago.
"We were at Sundance Film Festival in Utah doing some writer shows
for the Bluebird Café in conjunction with Sundance," Shamblin
revealed.
"I had the title for the song and I ran it by Tom. We started talking
about the idea. When you co-write a song you each dig into your own heart
for where you're coming from. The inspiration for me was the last ten
years or so with having my own children. I often think about the neighborhood
and the house that my father built that I grew up in."
Lambert, fiancé of Oklahoma star Blake Shelton won three Academy
Of Country Music awards in April with the video for cheating song White
Liar and fourth album Revolution.
She recently filmed a video in Tennessee town Joelton for Only Prettier
with southern belles Kellie Pickler, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum
and Laura Bell Bundy.
CLICK HERE for a Lambert
feature in the Diary on May 5, 2007.
SUNNY SWEENEY
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Fellow
Texan Sunny Sweeney returns with her video for If I Could
from her debut album Heartbreaker's Hall Of Fame. The latter day Austin resident also went to university in San Marcos with Randy Rogers. |
Tim Carroll
- singing spouse of Melinda Schneider's writing collaborator Elizabeth
Cook - recorded his original of If I Could as the title track of
his third album in 2001.
Cook's dad Tom, now a spritely 86 year old, served 11 years prison for
his role in moonshine whiskey before being saved by her mum Joyce.
She recently released her fifth album Welder dedicated to her dad.
Click Here for a Sweeney
feature in the Diary on April 25, 2007.
JONI HARMS
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Former
Nu Country TV host Joni Harms returns with a video clip filmed in
Queensland. The Oregonian oriole, who has toured here twice, filmed Cowboy Up at Widgee near Gympie in Queensland? "It's the cutest little rodeo arena there, very authentic, which was what we wanted," Harms said. "We didn't want anything that was brand new and all shiny with metal gates. We wanted something that was more rustic. We found Joe Mooney to play the cowboy role in Cowboy Up where he has to cowboy up - not only because he gets bucked off - but also because his girlfriend leaves him. He did a great job - he rode a bull and also couple of broncs. I rode horses and brought my two children in to be part of the video. We had a lot of the folks in the Widgee area show up and it was a real blast." |
The 49-year-old
mother of two has made 10 albums in a career littered with stillborn discs.
Click Here for a
Harms feature in the Diary on June 27, 2007.
TIM MCGRAW REIGNS
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When
superstar Tim McGraw performs in the video this week for historic
hit She's My Kind Of Rain he uses a marital metaphor. McGraw, 43 and singing spouse and actress Faith Hill recently sold their Beverly Hills six bedroom mansion for $9.5 million. They bought the four-acre plot for $6.4 million in 2003 when Hill was filming The Stepford Wives with Keith Urban's thespian wife Nicole. The couple raised their three daughters in Nashville where McGraw has lived since 1989. Tim is the son of late baseball legend Tug. |
But his mother
raised him near Start in Louisiana.
Tim and Faith, from Star, Mississippi, met at a Nashville radio station
- she was opening act on his 1996 tour.
They wed that year and recorded a brace of duet hits including It's
Your Love, Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me and Let's Make
Love.
McGraw shaved his moustache as on screen husband of Sandra Bullock in
The Blind Side.
He grew a beard for his role as Gwyneth Paltrow's husband and manager
in new movie Love Don't Let Me Down.
McGraw is reunited in the film with Garret Hedlund who played his son
in 2004 gridiron movie Friday Night Lights, set in Odessa, Texas.
And in yet another new movie Dirty Girl, Tim shares billing with
Robert Duvall and Kentucky born singing actor Dwight Yoakam who were all
in the 2008 movie Four Christmases.
McGraw is touring here in September to promote his music, now boasting
career sales beyond 40 million, with his band The Dance Hall Doctors.
Viewers may recall The Warren Brothers - Brad and Brett - who toured here
as a duo last century.
But, unlike their debut at long defunct ID's bar in Greville St, Prahran,
they'll be on the big stage at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday September 19
before heading north.
CLICK HERE for a McGraw
feature in the Diary on May 23.
LUKE O'SHEA
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Sydney singer-songwriter
Luke O'Shea performs in the video for the title track of his fourth album
Prodigal Son.
O'Shea performed in Melbourne during the birth of the TV show in 2003.
Luke follows in a long line of schoolteachers to indulge in country music.
Sunraysia born Sara Storer, Dead Livers lead singer Marty Atchison and
John Schumann, who cut Marty's signature song Holy Mary, are revered
writers torn from secondary and primary teaching.
O'Shea, who won his break with indie single Standing In The Rain and
Telephone Lines on a Sydney Basement CD and wrote all 12
songs on a previous disc No Day Like Today.
Luke's music draws from his travels here and in the U.K. and Ireland and
on Indian reservations in the U.S.
CLICK HERE for
an O'Shea CD review in the Diary on March 3.
SUNNY COWGIRLS
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The
Sunny Cowgirls return with a snippet of Pink Galahs filmed
at a concert in China. "I went to stay with a friend for a few days and ended up spending three months there, it was such a wonderful way of life," Celeste said. |
She also
wrote Soft as Wool, about one of the characters she met there.
It's a song about a tough shearer with a heart of gold, sung with warmth
and much affection.
A sense of place and a girl with whom Celeste went to school inspired
12 Trees - a song about coming home and a celebration of life on
the land.
"The songs we write come from a very real place - they're always
inspired by where we've been and the people we've met," said Sophie.
CLICK HERE for a Sunny
Cowgirls CD review on July 12, 2005.
WIN
TIM MCGRAW TOUR SOUVENIR CD
Award winning
Tim McGraw tour promoter Michael Chugg and Rob Potts are promoting Series
#14 of Nu Country TV.
Now the superstar and singing actor's record company Sony has given Nu
Country viewers a chance to win his souvenir tour CD.
The Southern Voice CD, with bonus tracks, is released here to promote
McGraw's debut Australian tour with wife Faith Hill and The Dancehall
Doctors in September.
All you have to do is become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership.
It costs just $20.
Please send a cheque or money order made out to Nu Country Music to us
at P O Box 625 - Northcote - 3070.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
as stocks are limited.
WIN ROSANNE CASH CD
We also have
Rosanne Cash's acclaimed new EMI CD The List - new versions of
classics from a list given to her by late father Johnny when she was 18
in 1973.
Guests on the Cash collection include Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello,
Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright.
Cash's second husband John Leventhal produced the CD for Manhattan Records.
It features songs dating back to the Carter Family, the Hanks - Williams,
Snow and Cochran - Harlan Howard, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan.
We'll reward your new membership or membership renewal with a copy of
the CD - please send us a cheque or money order for $20.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
as stocks are limited.
WIN
DIERKS BENTLEY CD
EMI Records has provided Nu Country TV with Arizona born Dierks Bentley's
fifth chart topping CD Feel The Fire.
Bentley won an enthusiastic following on his debut Australian tour in
May with superstars Brooks & Dunn.
Dierks, 33, has scored seven #1 hits since leaving Phoenix for Nashville
as a teenager.
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 The 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.
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 for just $20 can
win the Fearless CD.
Swift, 19, played capacity audiences on her Australian tour in March and
returns here in February.
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 FELICITY CD
Multiple
Golden Guitarist winner Felicity Urquhart returned to Nu Country TV as
hosts during Series #12, beginning in June.
You can win autographed copies of Felicity's sixth album Landing Lights,
available here in shops on Shock.
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
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 $20 membership you can win Mike's CD Country To Country
or Catherine Britt's Little Wildflower CD.
WIN JASMINE RAE & STEVE FORDE CDS
We also have
the following CDS for viewers who email our web page and pledge $20 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.