DAVE'S DIARY - 16/8/11 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 11 - SERIES 16
TEXAN TRIO REIGN ON NU COUNTRY
Texan honky
tonker Dale Watson and Kentucky born fellow singing actor Dwight Yoakam
headline Nu Country TV this Saturday - August 20 - on C 31 at 10.30 p.m.
Fellow Texans Miranda Lambert and Lee Ann Womack also return to the show
to strut their stuff.
Jim Lauderdale, who had a cameo in recent Country Strong movie,
takes a starring role in the show edited by Ashley Hall.
And Old Crow Medicine Show, who have toured here twice, return to the
program repeated Friday at 5.30 a.m.
DALE WATSON TAKES TIGER BY THE TAIL
Thrice wed Texan Dale Watson turned trauma into gold after his sixth Australian tour in April.
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He
emulated late hero Buck Owens and took a tiger by the tail. And the song had a happy ending. |
The Singapore
Airlines-backed carrier never found Watson's discs but belatedly repaid
him $2000 wholesale cost of the 120 CDs and the $500 excess baggage charge
for the lost cargo.
Its delay of several cheques was blamed on ash clouds and the airlines
grounding.
Sadly we don't have that video so we reprise Hollywood Hillbilly
from his 13th album From The Cradle To The Grave.
Video director Johnny Knoxville was cast as body snatcher Phil Kaufman
in Gram Parsons movie Grand Theft Parsons.
CLICK HERE for a Watson
feature from the Diary on February 21, 2007.
DWIGHT DRIVES JAYNE MANSFIELD CAR
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Dwight
Yoakam returns to Nu Country with his video for classic Close Up
The Honky Tonks. It was on his 2007 Buck Owens tribute disc Dwight Sings Buck. Dwight, an in demand actor with 28 roles in his CV, is making new Billy Bob Thornton movie Jayne Mansfield's Car in Georgia. They were also in 1996 movie Sling Blade that won Billy Bob an Oscar for best screenplay. "Billy wrote a new screenplay titled Jayne Mansfield's Car," Dwight, 54, revealed recently. "It stars myself, Billy Bob, and Dennis Quaid as three brothers in 1969, who are ex World War II vets wrestling with their own families and lives on a large cattle ranch in western Alabama." |
Dwight, joined
in the new movie by octogenarian Oscar winner Robert Duvall, has long
combined movies with music and is cast in the remake of The Lone Ranger.
"I'm hoping to record this summer or fall for something that's out
next year," he reports.
"I'm writing a lot."
Dwight worked with Billy Bob in front of cameras and behind console on
memorable songs.
They sang backing vocals on Warren Zevon's final album, The Wind,
in 2003, before the singer-songwriter died from cancer.
"Warren did a lot of recording at Billy Bob Thornton's home studio,"
Dwight recalls. "We were there one night and Billy said, 'You've
got to listen to this.' It was after everybody had left, and he pulled
up Knockin' on Heaven's Door. It was Warren doing it, and Billy
Bob said, 'That tears you up.'"
Dwight appeared in The Newton Boys and Provinces Of Night -
an indie movie about a twisted family shot in North Carolina.
It also features Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Hillary Duff.
Yoakam and Kristofferson recently appeared in The Last Rites of Ransom
Pride - written by outlaw Texan country singer Ray Wylie Hubbard.
Yoakam was also cast with fellow singing actor Tim McGraw in Four Holidays
and Dirty Girl.
He is also in Favourite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities with Billy
Ray and Miley Cyrus, and Naomi and Ashley Judd.
CLICK HERE for a Dwight
interview in the Diary on July 26, 2005.
JIM LAUDERDALE MEETS JESUS IN A BAR
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Dual
Grammy Award winner Jim Lauderdale - son of a Presbyterian minister
- returns with the video for his song I Met Jesus In A Bar. He
has also written with such disparate talents as the late Harlan
Howard, Robert Hunter, Frank Dycus and Melba Montgomery. |
"I was reading a Gram Parsons biography by Syd Griffin. In the book, Pamela Des Barres was talking about how Gram had a party and he put on George Jones for people who hadn't heard of him. When I read it, I got goose bumps and this melody came. I was living in California and went out to Cap Rock where Gram used to hang out and was cremated. And the song came to me. A lot of times, a melody will come at the spur of the moment. I'll think of a phrase and the melody will come right then."
Lauderdale
performed at the inaugural CMC Rocks The Snowy festival at Thredbo
in 2008.
He made his Australian debut tour in 2002 with Kim Richey, Canadians Fred
Eaglesmith and Jason McCoy and expat Tasmanian Audrey Auld.
CLICK HERE for an
interview in the Diary on December 14, 2006, with Lauderdale about how
he wrote I Met Jesus In A Bar.
LEE ANN WOMACK - TWO HUSBANDS AGO
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Texan
singing actress Lee Ann Womack - one of Jim's song clients - returns
with the video for her song 20 Years And Two Husbands Ago. Fellow Texan Waylon Payne plays a waiter in the video for the twice-wed singer. Waylon - son of late singer Sammy Smith & Jody Payne - played Jerry Lee Lewis in Cash movie Walk The Line. Lee Ann's song is from her seventh album There's More Where That Came From. Payne also wrote Solitary Thinking on her eighth album Call Me Crazy, released in 2009. Lee Ann recently played a sheriff - Chief Deputy Claire Wades in a small East Texas town in the movie Noble Things. |
The Jacksonville
born singer, 45 and mother of two, is the former singing spouse of singer-songwriter
Jason Sellers.
She is wed to producer Frank Liddell and cut duets with fellow Texan George
Strait on Everything But Quits and 2005 CMA award-winning tune
Good News Bad News.
Womack, daughter of a small town Texan DJ, won a Grammy with Willie Nelson
for their 2002 duet, Mendocino County Line.
She also cut a duet with Alan Jackson on Vern Gosdin tribute Til The
End on his 18th album Freight Train.
CLICK HERE for a feature
on Lee Ann from the Diary on March 28, 2005.
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
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Roots country
band Old Crow Medicine Show return to Nu Country with a video of their
historic song Wagon Wheel.
The band indulges in a little carnival knowledge in the video.
Old Crow Medicine Show, formed in 1998, has toured here twice.
It debuted at the 2009 CMC Rocks The Snowy festival at Thredbo
to promote sixth album Tennessee Pusher on Nettwerk Records.
Producer Don Was took the string quartet west to California to record
with cameos by veteran drummer Jim Keltner and organist Benmont Tench.
The band, suffering illness, cancelled September shows at Austin City
Limits festival and historic Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Billy
Bob's in Fort Worth.
CLICK
HERE for Old Crow Medicine Show CD review from The Diary on January 21,
2009.
CLICK HERE for Anne
Sydenham's Forum concert review on March 13, 2009.
MIRANDA LAMBERT - NO WHITE LIAR
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Art didn't
imitate life for Texan star Miranda Lambert when she wed Oklahoma star
Blake Shelton in May.
Well, not like in the video clip for the marital mayhem of her song White
Liar that we reprise on Nu Country this week.
The cheating spouse is sprung at the ceremony and hell breaks loose -
it's one of five #1 hits from Lambert's fourth album Revolution.
Lambert cancelled her 2011 Australian tour with Georgian superstar Alan
Jackson because of respiratory problems.
Miranda, 27, releases fifth solo album Four The Record on November
1 - she debuted a new single this month and has been performing Baggage
Claim in concert.
Four The Record is being touted as Lambert's fourth album but she
also released an indie disc before being signed by Sony.
The daughter of a former Dallas undercover narcotics cop-private eye,
recently toured the U.S. with The Pistol Annies - featuring fellow
singer-songwriters Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe.
In May the trio released the title track of debut album Hell On Heels
- out on August 23.
East Tennessee born Monroe - a prolific writer with tunes written with
and recorded by Catherine Britt - is a descendant of the Carter Family.
Kentuckian Presley - who writes for the publishing company of expats Barry
and Jewel Coburn - has had songs recorded by Australian artists Jasmine
Rae and Kirsty Lee Akers.
Click Here for a Miranda
Lambert feature in the Diary on May 5, 2007
Click Here
for a Miranda Lambert CD review in the Diary on January 11, 2010.
JACKSON AND LAMBERT PRIZES FOR TOURS
There's great
news for fans of Georgian born superstar Alan Jackson and quadruple CMA
Award winning Texan star Miranda Lambert.
We have the duo's latest CDS as prizes for viewers who renew Nu Country
TV memberships or become members.
Sony-BMG promotions chief Emma Smith also gave us Miranda's new DVD -
Revolution: Live By Candlelight.
Alan's 34 Number Ones features his biggest hits including his duet
with Zac Brown Band - As She's Walking Away.
The bonus tracks also include his cut of the late June Carter Cash-Merle
Kilgore written Johnny Cash hit Ring Of Fire and rare track Look
At Me.
Emma also donated the newly wed Miranda's huge selling 4th CD Revolution.
And as a bonus there is Miranda's new DVD featuring rare acoustic performances
of six songs White Liar, The House That Built Me, Love Song, Heart
Like Mine, Love Is Looking At You and Rolling Stones country classic
Dead Flowers.
Jackson played Rod Laver Arena on Friday March 4 before headlining CMC
Rocks The Hunter on March 5 and 6.
WIN KEITH URBAN CDS ALSO
Expatriate
Australasian superstar Keith Urban returned for a triumphant tour with
chart-topping mates Lady Antebellum in April.
And Keith's long time record company EMI-Capitol has great news for Nu
Country TV viewers.
Promotions ace Bianca O'Neill donated autographed copies of his huge selling
ninth album Get Closer.
She has also donated new compilation The Very Best Of Slim Dusty
and CMAA Winners - 2011.
All you have to do to win Jackson, Lambert, Urban and Dusty CDS or the
Lambert DVD is become a member of Nu Country or renew 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.
We also now have electronic banking for membership payment and renewal.
But email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
as stocks are limited.
Other prizes on offer include -
Taylor Swift - 2ND CD Fearless.
Tim McGraw Southern Voice Tour CD with 11-bonus video clips.
Dierks Bentley - Feel The Fire.
Felicity - Landing Lights
Slim Dusty Sittin' On 80 Boxed Set
The Very Best Of Slim Dusty
Steve Forde - Guns & Guitars
Catherine Britt - Little Wildflowers.
Mike Brady - Country To Country.
CMAA Winners 2011 and other compilation CDS.