DAVE'S DIARY - 14/2/2024 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 11 - SERIES 58
KIP MOORE HEADLINES NU COUNTRY TV
Georgian singer-songwriter and frequent Australian tourist Kip Moore headlines Nu Country TV on Saturday February 17 at 6.30 pm on Channel 31/ Digital 44.
The Texan Will Carter Band and fellow Lone Star state singer Mickey Guyton and Kane Brown boomerang to the show filmed and produced by Laith Graham and repeated Wednesday at 1.30 am.
Tennessean trio Restless Rodeo and Chicago singer Nancy Hays debut on the show that features return of South Australian park ranger Matt Ward.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info - https://www.c31.org.au/
MOORE ROAD TRIP
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Georgian Kip Moore takes viewers on a road trip on his Nu Country TV return.
Moore , 44, fished, dived, surfed, rode bikes and dined out with his dog as he hit stages in the great outdoors.
Kip also proved some things never get old in his Some Things video on his fifth album Damn Love.
Moore performed at Margaret Court arena with Randy Houser in March last year after his 2018 CMC Rocks Queensland festival and the Forum in Melbourne CBD gigs on his tour with Lee Brice and Charlie Worsham.
Moore, one of six children, debuted at Snowy Mountains country festival in Thredbo and CMC Rocks Queensland in 2016.
He also produced 33 minute documentary The Journey To Slowheart .
Kip and West Virginian Morgan Wade fronted our show on their duet for If I Was Your Lover.
Kip and Ashley McBryde also appeared live on Nu Country on stage at famed Ryman in Nashville for Jani Blue after fronting Nu Country with previous videos Fire On Wheels, In The Wild, Don't Go Changing, More Girls Like You, How High, Last Shot and Kiss Like You Dance.
CLICK HERE for a Kip Moore feature in The Diary on April 16, 2018.
WILL CARTER BAND
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Texan Will Carter and his hot band livened up stages as they hit the honky-tonks.
Will hails from a farm at Katy near Houston and chased his music dreams.
He proved how he could beat pessimists who doubt his talent in his Just Wait And See video on his fourth album.
Between homeschooling, breaking horses, milking goats and planting crops Will honed his songwriting and guitar skills.
Will took his first stage aged three and played guitar at 10.
When he was a teenager his father became severely ill so he created a playlist of his dad's favourite songs to share with him and provide some comfort and an escape.
Will recorded these songs and sold CDs to help raise money for his family.
This creative and active way of assisting his family landed him on the Debra Duncan television show when he was just 13.
Those songs were played for his father every day until he died.
Carter began his professional career in 2016 after fronting Texas dance hall headliners The Emotions and cut his debut album Good Bad Idea in 2019.
Further info - https://www.willcarterband.com/
MICKEY GUYTON AND KANE BROWN
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Award winning Texan singer-songwriter Mickey Guyton and Tennessean star and record label owner Kane Brown joined forces in their return to our show.
They proved as handy with brooms as guitars and mikes in honky-tonks in their new video Nothing Compares To You .
Kane, 30, was born in Chattanooga , Tennessee , and lived as a child in Georgia and has released three albums and four EPS.
Brown wed singer Katelyn Brown (née Jae) in 2017 and have two daughters.
Mickey wrote 15 of the 16 songs on her debut album Remember Her Name after her fourth EP Bridges which included Black Like Me that received an historic Grammy nomination.
Guyton, 40, co-hosted the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards in April with expat Australasian labelmate Keith Urban.
The singer and lawyer husband Grant Savoy have a son Grayson, now three.
Further info - https://newmusic.kanebrownmusic.com/
FURTHER INFO - https://www.mickeyguyton.com/
RESTLESS ROAD LAST RODEO
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Nashville band Restless Road showcase their last rodeo in their Nu Country debut.
The Tennessean trio - Zach Beeken, Garrett Nichols and Colton Pack - worked as barmen and in construction while chasing their music dreams.
The trio appeared on the X Factor and Bachelor TV shows.
They also proved they were not bucked by knockbacks in romance before that rodeo.
Last Rodeo is title track of their 18-track album released last year on Kane Brown's 202l record label.
Further info - https://www.restlessroad.com/
MATT WARD PARK RANGER AND SINGER
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Adelaide singer-songwriter Matt Ward works as a park ranger and wildlife officer when not on stage.
Matt, 47, has also recorded and performed in Texas .
That's where he sourced his second album If I Was in Dallas Tonight,
This week he performs Nobody Told Me on his live EP with his Rising Sons Band.
It also features his Norwood Football Club song that is on his third solo album out this year.
Ward and Texan Bonnie Montgomery fronted Nu Country with Old Ground after he showcased Better Man - his song for bushfire and drought victims - from debut album Heartland.
He wrote it after hearing an interview with a suicidal farmer who lost his farm and family in a drought.
Ward's cross-cultural exchange included trips to West Texas deserts and Austin concerts and fuelled videos T erlingua and Take Me Home with his Rising Sons.
CLICK HERE for a Matt Ward interview in The Diary on February 21, 2022.
CHICAGO CHANTEUSE NANCY HAYS
Chicago veteran stage star Nancy Hays proves she has a heart like a train on her Nu Country debut.
Nancy proves love beats family disdain as she takes her flowers and a guitar to a train station.
Her Heart Like A Train video stars singer-actress daughter Caroline Heffernan - Chicago Med - and Patrick Weber, as young couple torn apart by family disapproval and distance but intent on being together.
The mother of four worked with George Burns early in her career and began as a teen in The Wizard Of Oz .
She performs Heart Like A Train - penned by Ronnie Samoset and Matraca Berg - for her sixth album.
Furrher info - https://www.nancy-hays.com/singer.html
WIN WAYLON, GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD
Help us celebrate being Nu Country TV members and win albums by late Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Highwaymen by becoming a Nu Country member or renewing your membership.
George, Waylon, Merle and Willie Nelson were among country historian Barbara Dowling's favourite Texans.
The Waylon, Highwaymen , Merle and George discs were donated by Barbara who died at 77 in December, 2020.
She co-hosted Long In The Saddle in our Nu Country FM era and was pioneer Australian and Victorian country music awards judge.
Barbara was admired for rising above losing her sight as a young woman and her country passion with annual trips to Waylon's birthplace in Littlefield, West Texas.
Waylon died at 64 on February 13, 2002, and is survived by singing spouse Jessi, now 80, and son Shooter, 44.
WIN KEITH URBAN CDS ALSO
We have expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban's chart topping 12th album The Speed Of Now - Part 1.
Also BR5-49 CD Big Backyard Beat Show and Billy Ray Cyrus's historic 1992 album Some Gave All featuring Achy Breaky Heart.
We have other CDS by major artists you can win by becoming a Nu Country TV member or renewing memberships.
They include Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kip Moore, Carrie Underwood and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
CLICK HERE for our Membership Page for details.