DAVE'S DIARY - 3 JUNE2019 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 2 - SERIES 40
TROY CASSAR-DALEY HEADLINES NU COUNTRY TV
Prolific Golden Guitarist-ARIA awards winner Troy Cassar-Daley headlines Nu C ountry TV in our historic train song feature on Saturday June 8 at 9.30 pm on Channel 31/44.
Texan outlaw Billy Joe Shaver and Louisiana born bluegrass singer Billy Droze expand our loco theme in Behind Bars on the show, hosted by Mid-Pacific Bob Olson, and repeated Monday 7.30 am.
Arkansas troubadour Justin Moore pays tribute to war victims who didn't make it home on the program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Alberta singer Aaron Goodvin visits bars and churches and The Bloody Wolves of Venice make their debut.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info - https://www.c31.org.au/
TROY MATERNAL JOY AND PATERNAL PAIN
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Troy Cassar-Daley has good reasons to write nostalgic loco songs - his mum Irene worked train buffet cars when they lived in Grafton.
So it's fitting that Trains is one of two locomotive songs reprised on his 42 track Greatest Hits CD and featured on our show.
But there was also recent train pain for Troy, 49 and father of two, now touring with daughter Jem, 17, to promote his album.
Troy 's dad Tony Cassar died at 75 on April 1 this year.
Tony arrived in Australia from Malta as an eight-year-old, speaking very little English and left school to work in a factory.
Troy, winner of six ARIA Awards and 37 Golden Guitars, was once a Nu Country TV host.
Jimmy Barnes recently recorded a Troy song Shutting Down Our Town for his new album My Criminal Record.
In 2005 Troy and Jimmy had a hit with their duet of Leonard Cohen's Bird On A Wire.
It won vocal collaboration at the 2006 Golden Guitar Awards.
CLICK HERE for our Troy CD feature in The Diary on September 9, 2016.
BILLY DROZE RIDES A COAL FED TRAIN
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Bluegrass bard Billy Droze debuts with Coal Fed Train from his fourth album To Whom It May Concern. Billy, now 32, was born in Louisiana and grew up in Alabama as the 10th of 12 children. Droze met his singing spouse Marija on a Lithuania tour and they have two sons Nicholas and Timothy. He penned bluegrass hits including I Know Better for The Grascals , Junior Sisk, Flatt Lonesome , Marty Raybon and Randy Kohrs. Billy also wrote songs recorded by country artists Darryl Worley, Billy Yates, Shenandoah and expat Australian Jamie O'Neal. |
Droze grew up in Alabama knowing music was his life.
“It's as if I was inserted with a computer chip that made my life revolve around music,” Droze revealed.
Father Bob, a dedicated country, gospel and bluegrass musician, is still active in his 80s.
Billy was on stage with Bob since he was 4 years old and spent his childhood singing with him in churches, bluegrass festivals and honky-tonks.
He developed a passion for traditional country, gospel, and roots music.
Droze learned guitar when he was 12 and as a teenager he walked miles down country roads, carrying his guitar, just to play songs.
At 16 Billy followed his dad to Texas and spent a year in his band.
Then after rambling around Texas he moved to Nashville and sang for Grammy winners Shenandoah (using the name Billy Ryan).
Further info - https://billydroze.com/about/
BILLY JOE SHAVER TRAVELS TO GEORGIA ON A FAST TRAIN
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Texan icon Billy Joe Shaver returns live to Behind Bars from a 1994 Farm Aid concert with his late son - Fast Eddie.
They perform his classic Georgia On A Fast Train that was on his album Tramp On Your Street.
It's a sibling of Amtrak And Ain't Coming Back and also on live discs in his 27-album career.
Shaver, 79, toured here with Texan comedic crime novelist Kinky Friedman in 2002
Thrice wed Billy Joe was also in three movies with octogenarian actor-director Robert Duvall and two with Kentucky born singing actor Billy Ray Cyrus.
Shaver was also the subject of the 2004 documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe directed by Oscar winner Duvall's wife Luciana Pedrazzi.
Billy Joe and The Kinkster also appeared in Nu Country - the Nick Brenner directed ABC TV documentary about the radio station that gave birth to Nu Country TV.
CLICK HERE for a Billy Joe Shaver feature in the Diary on February 23, 2015.
CLICK HERE for the Billy Joe movie feature in The Diary on March 24, 2004.
JUSTIN MOORE LATE NIGHTS AND LONG NECKS
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Arkansas singer-songwriter Justin Moore returns with his evocative homage to servicemen and women who died overseas in wars. Moore , 34, graphically depicted impact of wars on families in The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home on his fifth album Late Nights and Long Necks. His first album Small Town USA in 2009 was followed by singles If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away, Til My Last Day, Letting the Night Roll and You Look Like I Need a Drink in 2015. Moore 's Arkansas farm also needed a drink on April 25, 2017, when paddocks caught fire.
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Justin, father of three daughters and a son, moved back to hometown Poyen in 2014 with wife Kate and built a new home on land bought from his grandfather.
The property has been in his family since the late 1800s and Moore bought it so he and his family are there forever.
Moore 's previous gold albums were his self-titled debut in 2009, Outlaws Like Me (2011), Off The Beaten Path (2013) and Kinda Don't Care 2016.
CLICK HERE for a Justin Moore feature in The Diary on January 30, 2013.
AARON GOODVIN IN BARS AND CHURCHES
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Alberta singer Aaron Goodvin visits two staples in his life - bars and churches - in his Nu Country debut.
Aaron, now 34, hails from Spirit River , Alberta.
Bars & Churches is on his second CD V - named after his wife Victoria.
Aaron's self-titled debut CD featured his Lonely Drum hit.
He moved to Nashville after writing hits for April tourist Jon Pardi, Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell.
They included Out Like That on Bryan 's multi-platinum Crash My Party CD.
Further info - https://us.aarongoodvin.com/
THE BLOODY WOLVES OF VENICE
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The Bloody Wolves of Venice recruited John Driskill Hopkins of the Grammy winning Zac Brown Band when they formed for the new movie Adolescence.
It's an Ashley Avis-directed film about a couple of teenage runaways.
The quintet double as on-screen bandmates of former Sons of Anarchy actor Tommy Flanagan.
They jam on a riff-driven country-rocker - Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert in California is their bucolic backdrop
Baby is on their debut EP The Revelation .
Other band members are bassist Greg Lee and guitarist Mark Dannells of Yacht Rock Revue , drummer Mike Rizzi of Sweet Tea Project and California guitarist Mick Murphy of My Ruin, Teenage Time Killers and Chevy Metal .
Hopkins character in the movie was named Spider.
Further info - https://www.facebook.com/TheBloodyWolvesOfVenice/
HOW TO KEEP NU COUNTRY ON AIR
We need your support as we celebrate Nu Country TV's 40th series with Australian record companies and artists teaming to ensure our survival.
You can win Kip Moore's third album Slowheart , thanks to EMI promotions chief Dave Parker, and Blake Shelton's 12th CD If I'm Honest from Karen Black and Tony Midolo at Warner Music.
We also have other CDS by major artists you can win by becoming a Nu Country TV member or renewing membership.
They include Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
CLICK HERE for our Membership Page for full details.