DAVE'S DIARY - 19/12/2023 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 3 - SERIES 58
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW HEADLINE NU COUNTRY
Virginian raised dual Grammy winners Old Crow Medicine Show headline Nu Country TV on Saturday December 23 at 6.30 pm.
Red Wiggle Murray Cook and his Soul Movers band debut on the show repeated Tuesday at 1.30 am.
Veteran actor-singer-songwriter Pat Boone and Crystal Gayle boomerang to the program filmed and edited by our loyal producer and co-host Laith Graham.
Melbourne duo Minor Gold , Townsville singer Tammy Moxon and North Carolina chanteuse Kasey Tyndall also appear this week.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
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OLD CROW CELEBRATE A JUBILEE
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Old Crow Medicine Show returns to our show with Willie Watson who toured this year with Asleep At The Wheel including Out On The Weekend Festival in Williamstown.
The band began their 25 year career as buskers in Virginia and debuted at the 2009 CMC Rocks The Snowys in Thredbo with Taylor Swift.
They also played the Melbourne Forum before returning in 2017 and playing shows in Queensland and NSW.
This week the band performs their Miles Away video from their 12 track 14th album Jubilee at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary in Petros , Tennessee.
CLICK HERE for an Old Crow Medicine Show CD review in The Diary on April 6, 2015.
RED WIGGLE FRONTS WITH SOUL MOVERS
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The Soul Movers country band debuts on our show with red Wiggle Murray Cook driving their truck.
Cook also played guitar as Lizzie Mack added tambourine.
Trucks is on the Soul Movers 16 song fourth album Dumb Luck.
Cook has a lifetime love of guitars and is a passionate punter.
It's fits Soul Movers old-school approach to recording and playing with a mutual passion for analogue sensibilities.
I'm old-school when it comes to music and the joy for me in recording Dumb Luck is that we recorded the way we did when I was starting out, Cook revealed.
A bunch of friends in the studio banging out some songs because that's what we love. Sure, we did some overdubs, but the true essence of this album is that it's a recording of those performances.
Trucks showcases Soul Movers passion for retro garage and New Wave sounds since they began more than a decade ago.
Further info - https://www.soulmoversband.com/
PAT BOONE AND CRYSTAL GAYLE
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Singers-songwriter-actor, author and hit writer Pat Boone, now 90 and on the road again like Shotgun Willie Nelson returns to our show this week.
Pat was joined by Crystal Gayle - now 72 and one of late Coalminer's Daughter Loretta Lynn's two sisters.
They revived You And I - a 1982 #1 hit for Crystal and Eddie Rabbit
It's on Pat's new 25 song Country Jubilee double album released on September 8 on Boone's 20-year-old music imprint The Gold Label with Boone as Executive Producer.
Pat dedicated it to his late wife Shirley whose photos adorned their video.
Boone starred in 12 Hollywood movies and has sold 45 million albums in his 70-year career.
He previously fronted our show with his Grits video featuring a vast cast of gals and cartoon pals.
They included Ray Stevens, Gatlin Brothers, Lorrie Morgan, Deborah Allen and Dean Miller.
Boone was the second biggest-charting artist of the late 1950s, behind Elvis Presley, and was ranked No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 19551995.
His 1963 album Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport featured the late Rolf Harris hit.
As an author Boone had a number-one bestseller in the 1950s - Twixt Twelve and Twenty.
Further info - https://www.patboone.com/
KASEY TYNDALL ON A DIRT ROAD TO HELL
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North Carolina chanteuse Kasey Tyndall debuts on our show on a dirt road with a difference.
Kasey won a radio show talent quest in hometown Raleigh and debuted on stage with expat Kiwi superstar Keith Urban.
She performs her Dirt Road To Hell video from her second album that follows 2017 debut album Between Salvation And Survival.
Kasey, now 27, is promoting it on the road with Jamey Johnson and Whiskey Myers.
Further info - https://www.kaseytyndallofficial.com/
MINOR GOLD RIDE A CANNONBALL
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Melbourne duo Minor Gold - Tracey McNeill and Dan Parsons - return to our show after an international tour.
Tracey, now 49, and Dan first performed and recorded together 15 years ago in Melbourne.
They released five solo and Good Life band albums before writing 10 songs together for this disc produced with Hugh Middleton in Brisbane.
The duo performed their Cannonball video from their self-titled album Minor Gold that also featured a video for Don't Change.
They toured Victoria , South Australia and Queensland before Thirroul Music Festival on December 3.
Further info - https://www.minorgoldmusic.com/
TAMMY MOXON LIVE IN A PARK
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Townsville singer-songwriter Tammy Moxon returns as she performs to a very attentive audience.
She released her debut album Drive Me Sane in 2019 but her next album Fighting Chance was delayed because of Covid.
Tammy performs her Comfy video from her third album produced by Shane Nicholson.
I see my music as alternative, and when this new album is released, I think people will see that, Tammy, now 32, revealed.
She wrote eight of her album's 11 tracks and features a duet with Bill Chambers.
Comfy was filmed by Justin Reid over three days at Rollingstone Park in Queensland.
Moxon plays guitar as her band plays instruments behind her, children play the violin, and a community gathers and dances to her song. With some traditional country twang and the joy of family and community.
Moxon said The park let us use different locations on their land to film four music videos over three days. The extras partying in the video were friends and family who just wanted to support my venture.
Further info - https://www.tammymoxon.com/
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 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.
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