DAVE'S DIARY - 21/8/2017 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 7 - SERIES 33
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW HEADLINE NU COUNTRY TV
Old Crow Medicine Show headlines Nu Country TV on Saturday August 26 at 9 pm on Channel 31/Digital 44 on the eve of its second Australian tour in October.
Virginian quintet Old Dominion also returns to the show filmed and edited by Laith Graham and repeated Monday 8 am and Sunday at 1 am.
Californian super group Sons Of The Palomino and Missouri born singer Sara Evans open the program with salient skateboard and smoking metaphors.
And Melbourne band Raised By Eagles performs live in an historic theatre in our inner northern suburbs.
We also honour four times wed Arkansas born singing actor Glen Campbell who died at 81 on August 8, with his Oscar nominated last recorded song, I'm Not Gonna Miss You .
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OLD CROWS FLY BEHIND BARS WITH MENTOR BOB DYLAN
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Old Crow Medicine Show members tell us all about their Bob Dylan tribute disc-DVD 50 Years of Blonde On Blonde in Behind Bars.
They also perform live versions of Dylan classics Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 on the eve of their return to the Forum in Melbourne CBD on Sunday October 1.
Tennessee troubadour Valerie June joins them.
The crows have impeccable timing - they return the week after our AFL Grand Final.
They flew high at CMC Rocks the Snowys on their debut at Thredbo in 2009 with latter day superstar Taylor Swift and Arkansas traveller Joe Nicholls.
CLICK HERE for an Old Crow Medicine Show feature in The Diary on April 6, 2015.
OLD DOMINION SHOE SHOPPING
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Virginian band Old Dominion follow Old Crow Medicine Show and shop for shoes - not footy boots - on their return to our show.
The band displayed a bowling and dancing foot fetish that led to baby shoes - not footy boots.
Shoe Shopping is on their aptly titled second album Happy Endings , released this week.
The quintet, formed in Nashville in 2007 after writing hits for diverse other artists, perform and record as Old Dominion - nickname of its home state Virginia
We previously featured the band video for Song From Another Time from its debut album Meat & Candy , produced by Shane McAnally.
Lead singer Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen guitar-keyboards, drummer Whit Sellers, bassist Geoff Sprung and guitarist Brad Tursi had writing credits on many songs recorded by other artists.
Ramsey co-wrote Chainsaw for The Band Perry , Rosen co-wrote Chris Young's Neon and The Band Perry's Better Dig Two.
Tursi wrote Tyler Farr's A Guy Walks Into a Bar , songs for Kenny Chesney and Randy Rogers Band, and ABC musical drama, Nashville .
Two songs written for the band by Ramsey and Rosen - Wake Up Lovin' You and Say You Do - were hits for Craig Morgan and Dierks Bentley.
Old Dominion also released No Such Thing as a Broken Heart - penned by Ramsey, Rosen, Tursi and Jesse Frasure - for Happy Endings .
"No matter who you are, where you live or your current status, people both old and young face more challenges than ever," said Ramsey.
"It's in the face of those challenges and standing at the edge of fear that we have to remain positive. Focus on the light that comes from positivity instead of being swallowed up. Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don't be scared. Live life like there's no such thing as a broken heart."
Further info - https://olddominionband.com/
RAISED BY EAGLES FLY INTO THORNBURY
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Raised By Eagles perform live at the historic Thornbury Theatre with a song for losers in love and other indoor and outdoor sports.
Former country footy champ and singer Luke Sinclair wrote Heartbreaker for the band's third album I Must Be Somewhere.
Raised by Eagles fly into famed Caravan Club in Oakleigh and Torquay Bowls Club next month to promote their album.
The band filmed a previous video for Sugar Cane off second album Diamonds In The Bloodstream in our northern suburbs and Beechworth.
“The clip was filmed in and around Melbourne and up in Beechworth over Easter Weekend 2015,” Sinclair revealed at the time.
“I'm from the North-East Victorian hills. I have family in Albury and I played football as a kid all around the Ovens & King.”
Luke won Beechworth's most courageous player in 1991 and best and fairest in 1992 after a Wangaratta Imperials stint in 1989.
CLICK HERE for a Raised By Eagles CD feature in The Diary on June 12, 2017.
SONS OF THE PALOMINO TRUCK CIRCUS
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Californian band Sons Of The Palomino return with a song penned by singer Jeffrey Steele and Kentucky Coal-miner's son and chart topper Chris Stapleton.
Former Boy Howdy singer Steele, now 55, explains how the live song was inspired by the truck wheels of his son's skate board.
Independent Trucker is on their debut album, released in June, on Steele's indie label 3 Ring Circus.
Steele earned his stripes playing in the Palomino house band in the sixties and seventies.
Sons of the Palomino features veteran steel guitarist Paul Franklin, fiddler Larry Franklin, drummer Jerry Roe, pianist Tony Harrell, guitarist James Mitchell and bassist Brad Albin.
The album also has duets with Emmylou Harris, John Anderson, Gretchen Wilson, Vince Gill and Jamey Johnson.
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame 2013 inductee Steele is a Golden Globe-nominated writer.
His hits include Tim McGraw's The Cowboy in Me, Rascal Flatts smash What Hurts the Most , Trace Adkins Chrome , LeAnn Rimes Big Deal and dozens of others.
The band took its name from embryonic North Hollywood Palomino cowboy bar - a popular locale in many movies.
Late western swing bandleader Hank Penny and business partner Amand Gautier opened the Palomino around 1949-50.
It featured artists diverse as Texan crime novelist Kinky Friedman & his Texas Jewboys , Flying Burrito Brothers and singing actors Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakam and the late Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley.
The Palomino was a hangout for struggling actors and stuntmen in their salad days including Clint Eastwood and stuntman-TV cowboy Hal Needham.
It was featured in Clint's 1978 and 1980 movies Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can .
Other Palomino movie scenes included The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 and Hooper (both 1978) with Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent and Sally Field, Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) and the pilot episode of The Fall Guy starring Lee Majors and Lou Rawls.
More info - http://sonsofthepalomino.com
SARA EVANS WARNING SIGNS
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Missouri born singer-songwriter Sara Evans returns with her latest hit that suggests new lovers should have warning signs like cigarette packets. Sara, 46 and mother of three, sings of how she shed her rose coloured glasses after being misled in life and Evans had good reason to wish lovers had warning labels. She was once wed to a politician who cheated with their nanny. Sara fared better in love the second time around. She lives with former gridiron champ-radio host Jay Barker and their seven children in Alabama Sara's no stranger to large clans - she's eldest girl in a family of seven raised on a Missouri farm. She filmed her video for Marquee Sign in a smoky small town bar outside Nashville. |
The song is on her ninth album Words on her indie Born To Fly Records that was named after one of her many hits.
CLICK HERE for our Sara interview in The Diary on August 6, 2013.
GLEN CAMPBELL ADIOS
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Arkansas born singing actor and TV show host Glen Campbell died at 81 on August 8 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. But he filmed a video for his Oscar nominated recording I'm Not Gonna Miss You in acclaimed 2014 documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me . Last week our show ended with a cameo of his biggest hit - Larry Weiss penned Rhinestone Cowboy. Glen's final album Adios , produced by Carl Jackson and released in June, features duets including one with Texan Nine Stone Cowboy Willie Nelson, now 84. Vince Gill and three of Glen's children guest on the album recorded after his 2012 farewell tour. The seventh of 12 children of a Delight cotton share farmer was a famed session musician before he became a major international star. |
He recorded more than 70 albums that produced 80 plus hits on pop, country and adult chart with sales exceeding 45 million units.
Glen also won six Grammys from 17 nominations and was a major mentor for expat Australasian superstar Keith Urban and helped land Georgian Alan Jackson his first publishing and recording deals with expats Barry and Jewel Coburn.
Campbell starred with John Wayne in 1969 movie True Grit and sang the Oscar nominated theme song.
Other movie roles included Norwood with Joe Namath and Kim Darby, Strange Homecoming with Robert Culp and Leif Garrett, Any Which Way You Can with Clint Eastwood, Uphill All the Way with Roy Clark and Mel Tillis and the animated Rock-A- Doodle .
He also starred in prime-time weekly CBS variety series, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, from 1969-72 with regular star guests including Jerry Reed, John Hartford and Dom DeLuise.
Those shows featured his dexterity on guitar, banjo, mandolin and bagpipes before he boomeranged with 24 episodes of The Glen Campbell Music Show in 1982-83.
Campbell is survived by four wives, eight children and Texan former lover-duet partner Tanya Tucker.
CLICK HERE for a Glen Campbell feature in The Diary on September 13, 2009.
HOW TO KEEP NU COUNTRY ON AIR
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We have Kasey Chambers 11th CD Dragonfly and Blake Shelton's 12th CD If I'm Honest from Karen Black and Tony Midolo at Warner Music.
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They include singing actor Tim McGraw, Ashley Monroe, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and more.
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