DAVE'S DIARY - 19/7/10 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 7 - SERIES 14
YOUNG GUNS HEADLINE NU COUNTRY TV
Expatriate
Australian guitar slinger Jedd Hughes headlines Nu Country TV this Saturday
July 24 at 10 p m on C 31.
Hughes is in a duo Buxton Hughes with Sarah Buxton who wrote expat Australasian
superstar Keith Urban's big hit Stupid Boy.
Urban hails from Caboolture just south of Caloundra - hometown of Liam
Brew who performs his new video Doghouse this week.
And Alan Jackson returns with his video of a #1 hit written by another
expat Queenslander Kylie Sackley from Port Douglas.
Geelong born Adam Harvey and Wendy Matthews showcase their new duet and
expat Kiwi Matt Joe Gow returns with his new video.
Kansas chanteuse Martina McBride - seasoned survivor in a youth market
- performs a video from her 12th album Shine.
The show, hosted by fellow survivor Mid Pacific Bob Olson, is repeated
Wednesday at 1 am and 3.30 p m and is viewed online at C 31.
JEDD HUGHES HIGH LONESOME NO LONGER
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Jedd
Hughes long ago proved the most famous export from the tiny town of
Quorn, due north of Adelaide. The prolific songwriter and guitar for hire studied bluegrass and writing at South Plains College, Levelland, near Lubbock in famed West Texas Panhandle. Terry McBride of McBride & The Ride discovered Jedd while lecturing on campus and produced his debut CD Transcontinental for major label Mercury in 2004. That was after another Kentucky Coalminer's Daughter Patty Loveless recruited him as guitarist for her bluegrass band. Hughes has written songs and recorded with Texan tourist Jack Ingram and played in the band of fellow Lone Star state born Rodney Crowell. |
He entered
another hallowed domain - writing with Texas born Guy Clark who has toured
here twice.
Hughes is featured on three tracks on Sarah Buxton's debut solo disc.
Lyric Street released the belated album early this year but was closed
down by parent company Disney.
Hughes and Buxton have written 60 songs together - several feature on
an their duet album to be released as Buxton Hughes.
Jedd also wrote songs for The Greencards - the Nashville bluegrass band
featuring expatiate South Australian Kym Warner and Dorrigo born Carol
Young.
Hughes followed them to West Texas at 18 after earning his fare fencing
for his farmer father.
The Starmaker winner's collaborations with Catherine Britt and Felicity
Urquhart also adorned their latest albums.
This week Hughes, now 27, performs the video for High Lonesome
- a tale depicting his busking era in Nashville.
CLICK HERE for a Jedd
feature in the Diary on January 20, 2005.
KYLIE THE WRITER STRIKES GOLD AGAIN
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Fellow
Starmaker winner Kylie Sackley has written three major hits for Faith
Hill, LeAnn Rimes and Georgian superstar Alan Jackson. Expatriate Queenslander Kylie, 29, earned lucrative royalties from Alan's #1 hit of her song It's Just That Way. Jackson, 51, performs with his boating band in the video - filmed at his Tennessee lakeside mansion he recently sold for $28 million. Alan and wife Denise's lakeside locale featured a six-bedroom house, 20-car garage, log cabin and barn with two bedrooms and boathouse. Douglas penned the song with Vicky McGhee and hit writer Keith Stegall - also producer for Jackson and Novocastrian Catherine Britt. |
Sackley chased
her songwriting dream when she left coastal colony Port Douglas for Nashville
a decade ago.
She also wrote Some Things Never Change with former South Carolina
partner Lee Brice for his debut solo disc Love Like Crazy, out
this month.
Jackson, discovered by expatriate Kiwi Barry Coburn in the late eighties,
included Sackley's song on his 18th album Freight Train.
Canadian Fred Eaglesmith wrote the title track of a disc that took Alan's
sales beyond 51 million.
CLICK HERE for an Alan
Jackson feature in the Diary on May 28, 2008.
ADAM HARVEY AND WENDY MATTHEWS
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Jackson
protégé Adam Harvey and Wendy Matthews perform the
video for their duet Easy on this week's show. The couple met on TV show It Takes Two and later performed a duet of Johnny Cash hit Jackson on Hey, Hey It's Wednesday. |
CLICK HERE for a Harvey feature from the Diary on November 5, 2009.
LIAM'S HOME BREW IN THE DOGHOUSE
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Sunshine
Coast teenager Liam Brew emulated the late Johnny Paycheck when he
made the video for his second single Doghouse. The song was a sequel of sorts to Paycheck hit Thanks To The Cathouse - I'm In The Doghouse With You. In the video the singer found a way to extend his doghouse to fit his band and their instruments. It's unclear if there was room for the blonde who evicted Brew from the main residence. Doghouse is on Tamworth Starmaker Brew's debut Compass Brothers album Wild Heart. Jedd Hughes and Sam Hawksley, also now living in Nashville, wrote the title track of the Graham Thompson produced album. But it was expat Sunshine Coast superstar Keith Urban - not Paycheck - who was his mentor. |
Brew, 19
and guest on CMC Rocks The Snowys festival at Thredbo in March, was born
the year Urban won Starmaker.
They grew up a few kilometres apart near Caboolture and Caloundra on the
Sunshine Coast.
Brew performs the same venues Urban played as a young artist.
"The day after I won Starmaker, Keith did a video cross from Nashville
to congratulate the new Starmaker winner, saying he hoped I'd go as far
as him. It was pretty cool to think he was saying that to me!" Liam
said.
Fellow Starmaker winner Travis Collins, from Macquarie Fields, duets with
Brew on A Woman Can Do That to a Man.
Further info - www.liambrew.com.au
MATT JOE GOW TILTS AT WINDMILLS
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Expatriate
Kiwi Matt Joe Gow performs in the video for new single I Let You Be
from his debut CD The Messenger.
The singer, born in Dunedin, supported Justin Townes Earle on the New
Zealand leg of his fourth Australasian tour.
Gow, son of a professor, is a well-travelled troubadour.
The singer used a windmill metaphor in his song and video clip.
The Messenger is released by Liberation Records - latter day home
of Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson, The Dingoes and Troy Cassar-Daley.
CLICK HERE for a feature
on Matt from the Diary on July 26, 2009.
MARTINA MCBRIDE LAUNDROMAT LOVER
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Kansas born
Martina McBride, now 43 and mother of three, may be a happily married
minstrel.
But in her latest video Wrong Baby Wrong her character finds a
new man at a Laundromat before her night out with the girls at a honky
tonk.
It's not clear if that's the kind of shopping she enjoyed on her Australian
tour last millenium.
McBride and husband John - former sound man for Oklahoma superstar Garth
Brooks - operate a studio in Nashville when not on the road.
Her new video is from her 12th album Shine.
Click Here
for a McBride feature from the Diary on July 31, 2007.
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.