DAVE'S DIARY - 26/3/2024 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 4 - SERIES 59
TEXAN CODY JOHNSON HEADLINES NU COUNTRY TV
Texan singer-songwriter and rancher Cody Johnson headlines Nu Country TV on Saturday March 30 at 6.30 pm on Channel 31/ Digital 44.
Oregonian Jessie G, Gretchen Wilson and Appalachian Cody T Helms appear in their Behind Bars drinking double shot on the show filmed and produced by Laith Graham and repeated Saturday at 2.30 am.
Knoxville singer-songwriter Emily Ann Roberts, Australian duo The Pleasures and Georgian band Blackberry Smoke boomerang to our program this week.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info - https://www.c31.org.au/
CODY SHOWCASES THE PAINTER
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Texan rodeo rider rancher and singer-songwriter Cody Johnson branches out into painting on his Nu Country TV return.
Cody, now 36, hails from Huntsville where his dad Carl was a prison warder and drummer.
Johnson worked in prison with his dad before chasing his music dreams.
Carl appeared on Cody's first two albums - Black and White Label and Live and Rocking at Shenanigans and Confetti's Club in Huntsville in 2007
Cody was joined by his wife Brandi as his career painter in his latest video.
She started in black and white and ended in colour in her cameo.
The Painter is on Cody's ninth album Leather .
Cody previously fronted our show with videos Human, Til You Can't Tell, Dear Rodeo, Who I Am, On My Way To You, Doubt Me Now and Travelling Soldier .
Further info - http://www.thecodyjohnsonband.com/home.php
EMILY ANN ROBERTS EXORCISES SATAN
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Knoxville singer-songwriter Emily Ann Roberts tells us why the devil wears denim in her Nu Country return.
Emily sang of a cowboy who rode off into the sunset.
She was still at school when Blake Shelton discovered her on The Voice.
She wrote Devil Wears Denim with her producer Trent Willmon and Autumn McEntire
Emily knows all about devils.
She sang in church as a child with her great grand-father - a preacher.
Devil Wears Denim is on her second album Can't Hide Country.
Further info - https://www.emilyannroberts.com/
JESSIE G AND GRETCHEN WILSON WHISKEY CHASER
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Oregon escapee Jessie G fled the Country Rebel Ranch with her mentor Gretchen Wilson and Colbie Caillat.
She mounted her steed after a nip of Ammunition Straight Bourbon Whiskey in our Behind Bars drinking double shot.
Jessie, 33, hails from a fourth generation fishing family on the Oregon coast.
She wed her Green Beret husband Matt in Florida in 2021.
I Like My Whiskey is on her debut album that follows her 2019 self-titled EP.
Further info - https://jessiegmusic.com/
https://www.nucountry.com.au/articles/diary/february2014/040214_gretchenwilson_interview.htm
COLBY T HELMS LOVE OF BRANDY
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Appalachian Colby T Helms showcases his love of brandy in the second of our Behind Bars drinking double shots.
Colby was born in Boones Mill, Virginia, deep in Blue Ridge Mountains.
He lives in an underground house built by his late father on land his family owned for generations.
Colby, 21, taught himself guitar, banjo and mandolin when he was 12.
His Mountain Brandy video is his testament to both the people and valleys of Appalachia that shaped him.
Mountain Brandy is on his debut album Tales of Misfortune produced by Billy Hurt.
“This album delves into my teenage years growing up in rural Southwest Virginia ,” Helms revealed.
“I hope that listeners can feel the magic of the sounds, scenery, and culture of my region when spinning this album.”
It features ragtime First Snow set entirely in a dream to emotional crescendo of Daddy's Pocket-Knife as Helms grieves his late father who inspired his path to music. It features journeys through pain of unrequited love toll of life on the road and hypocrisy within religion while acknowledging mystical pull of his hometown that keeps reeling him back.
Further info - https://www.colbyhelms.com/
THE PLEASURES FIND AN AUSTIN BROTHEL
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Australian duo The Pleasures - Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan - took their name from a brothel in Austin , Texas , they found on a Lone Star State trip.
It inspired their video for The Beginning Of The End - the Pleasures debut album title track.
Prolific Golden Guitarist and breast cancer survivor Britt, 39, lives in Newcastle.
The Pleasures previously fronted our show with live version of a song they wrote in a fever one night in Melbourne.
Every Story Has Two Sides was the second single from The Pleasures debut album on Catherine's Beverley Hillbillies record label.
“Lachlan and I have always clicked in life and in song” Catherine revealed.
“And we've always had an unspoken understanding and respect for one another. These songs came so easy - they flowed out of us like a raging stream. I just want more honest, real music in the world and I couldn't think of a better person to make it with!”
“I don't think know anyone else who feels and understands country music the way Catherine does, Lachlan explained.
“She sounds authentic because she is authentic. When she opens her mouth and sings you can hear the neon lights buzzing, you can taste the tequila and you can barely see for the cloud of smoke. It's all that stuff that people try and fake - they try and put in on - but it's like she was just born with it”.
Catherine released ninth album Home Truths in January 2021 and Mornington Peninsula born Bryan released seven albums including some with The Wildes.
CLICK HERE for a Catherine CD feature in The Diary on January 25, 2021.
CLICK HERE for a Lachlan Bryan CD review in The Diary on February 19, 2012.
BLACKBERRY SMOKE HAMMER AND NAIL
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Georgian band Blackberry Smoke swing hammers and nails in their Nu Country TV return.
They took to the road and stages after starring in TV movie Yellowstone .
That was before drummer Brit Turner died aged 57 of brain cancer this month.
Hammer And Nail is on their 10th album Be Right Here.
Blackberry Smoke and Warren Haynes fronted our show live in Dave Cobb's studio on previous video All Rise Again.
The band was discovered by fellow home state icons the Zac Brown Band before their 20 years in the saddle.
They have a deal with Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine - Tennessee 's first legal moonshine.
Their album-DVD set Blackberry Smoke Homecoming: Live in Atlanta , features 18 songs on two CDs or three LPs, with special-edition colored vinyl disc.
We previously featured their videos One Horse Town, Shaking Hands With The Holy Ghost, Sunrise In Texas and Too High.
Further info - http://www.blackberrysmoke.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 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.