DAVE'S DIARY - 12/8/12 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 11 - SERIES 18
CROWS FLY FOR HAWKS
Hawks supporter
chef Mid Pacific Bob Olson serves up old crows in his triumphant hosting
return to Nu Country TV this Wednesday August 15 at 10 p m on C 31.
Expatriate Californian Bob found Old Crow Medicine Show performing in
our Behind Bars live segment of the show.
Wisconsin country roots singer-songwriter John Thompson also debuts on
a show that features fellow pure country record company plank walker -
Texan Chalee Tennison.
Former Wildes singer Lachlan Bryan returns with his new video clip.
And Nipper Mack - who toiled with the Mack Brothers as a DJ at Nu Country
FM on Beer Can Hill - debuts with his well-travelled band Very Handsome
Men.
Olson filmed in his Beer Can Hill delta greenery and welcomes Nipper on
a show that is repeated Thursday - 4.30 pm, Saturday 11.30 pm and Tuesday
at 2 am.
We have more good news.
The Nu Country TV show has been added to the C 31 streaming list.
Just follow this link on your computer or mobile phone -
http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/nu-country-tv
JOSH THOMPSON COMING AROUND
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Wisconsin
singer-songwriter Josh Thompson performs in the video for his recent
hit Coming Around. As a young adult he took a nature course in the Nicolet National Forest, then moved to Nashville in 2005 and worked as a songwriter. |
His first
cut was the title track of Jason Michael Carroll's album Growing Up
Is Getting Old.
By 2009 Thompson had signed to Columbia - he released debut single Beer
on the Table in late 2009.
It debuted at #55 on Billboard on August 15, 2009 and was followed by
a four-song digital EP that also included three other tracks.
His debut album Way Out Here, produced by Michael Knox, escaped
in February 2010.
Thompson wrote or co-wrote all ten tracks, and promoted it at Northern
Lights Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Beer on the Table peaked at #17.
The album's title track and second single was in March 2010.
The two singles and Won't Be Lonely Long and Blame It on Waylon
were made into music videos.
Thompson toured with Eric Church in 2011 on a 32-stop tour and joined
Paisley's 2010 H2O tour.
Third single Won't Be Lonely Long was released on November 22,
2010. Thompson also co-wrote Church Pew or Bar Stool - a song recorded
by Jason Aldean on his 2010 album My Kinda Party.
In 2011 he co-wrote A Man Don't Have To Die for Paisley album This
Is Country Music.
Further Info - www.joshthompsonofficial.com
www.facebook.com/JoshThompsonOfficial
CHALEE TENNISON - ALSO BEIND BARS
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Texan
singer-songwriter Chalee Tennison, 43 and now thrice divorced, worked
behind bars as a warder before making it as a country singer. In the video for Just Because She Lives Here she issued a stern warning to men who prefer phones and sport to love. Her message - don't cheat and seek forgiveness from the Lord or another higher being - Her. Just Because She Lives Here is on her second album This Woman's Heart. Chalee injects her life into her music. Chalee is a child and grandchild of divorce - she wed at 16 after a trial residence with her biological father failed. |
Two more
marriages and three children followed as Tennison fronted her own band
in Texas for nearly 10 years.
She tried to support her music with a series of jobs that included being
a waitress, an electrician's helper, and a prison guard.
Chalee left Texas for Tennessee at 28 - her classic country voice attracted
Asylum Records who released her self-titled debut disc in 1999.
The album release coincided with Texan born label mate George Jones near-fatal
car crash.
During his well-publicised recuperation, he promoted her album as well
as his own.
That drew the stone country crowd to Tennison but radio failed to follow.
"Radio wouldn't play my traditional album," Tennison revealed
at the time.
"I'm not tryin' to put 'em down but that's what I was told and what
I had to believe. So we have to learn what's radio friendly, what's a
radio smash, as opposed to an album cut that changes someone's life. I
lived with my first album for a year and a half and listened to people
say, 'Gosh, she's so traditional, but you know our station just doesn't
play that kind of music.' Which broke my heart. So the production's different
on this album."
She shares with Kasey Chambers the ability to sing with the emotional
catch in the voice the late Tammy Wynette perfected.
Tennison is an earthy, strong woman with very rigid guidelines for right
and wrong.
"I was a huge Tammy fan. I felt her pain. I felt her happiness,"
Chalee says.
"I think that I've been through what I've been through and done what
I've done in my life because I'm supposed to be sharin' my story."
Chalee released her third album Parading In The Rain on Dreamworks
in 2003.
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW AT RYMAN
 Photo by Carol Taylor |
The revamped
Old Crow Medicine Show strut their stuff at the famed Ryman Auditorium
in our Behind Bars concert segment this week.
That's the mother church of the Grand Ole Opry.
They perform new songs Stepping Out and the title track of their
seventh album Carry Me Back To Virginia.
The band debuted in Australia at the CMC Rocks The Snowys at Thredbo before
playing the Golden Plains Festival.
They also won fans when they played the ornate, historic Forum Theatre
in Flinders Street on a stage once trodden by the late great Frank Thring.
Arkansas born, latter day Texan Joe Nichols and his Fawkner raised duet
partner Jasmine Rae also played the venue that once rocked to Los Lobos.
CLICK
HERE for a CD review in the Diary on January 21, 2009.
CLICK
HERE for a feature on Old Crow Medicine Show including a review of the
Carry Me Back CD
VERY HANDSOME MEN
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Former Nu
Country FM DJ Nipper Mack and his Very Handsome Men debut on our sibling
TV show with a video for Cold And Lonely Road.
It's the title track of their third album they recorded at their Jam Hut
home studio in northern Melbourne suburb Preston.
After the recording Nipper and guitarist Vic De Marco splurged their promo
budget on a Texas trip to launch it.
They opened for legendry Texan star Ray Wylie Hubbard at the famed White
Elephant Saloon in Fort Worth.
The bon vivant headed to Cowtown after appearing at Tommy Alverson's annual
hootenanny - the Texas Music & Family Gathering at Tres Rios River
Ranch at Glen Rose.
The duo shared billing with heavy hitters - legendary singer-songwriter
Steve Fromholz, Johnny Bush, Cooder Graw, Trent Summar, Cornell Hurd,
David Ball, Ed Burleson, Rusty Wier, Adam Carroll, Walt Wilkins, Brian
Burns, Kevin Deal, Eleven Hundred Springs and many more.
CLICK
HERE for a trip log and CD review in the Diary.
LACHLAN BRYAN GOING STRAIGHT
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Former Wildes
singer Lachlan Bryan returns to Nu Country with the video for latest single
Going Straight.
A lyric from that song inspired the title of his album Shadow Of The
Gun.
Bryan was raised on the Mornington Peninsula - south of the big smoke
in Melbourne.
Rod McCormack produced Bryan's album at his Music Cellar studio on the
NSW Central Coast.
It features a duet with Kasey Chambers, lap steel by her dad - Poppa Bill
- and Novocastrian Catherine Britt and Kaylah Anne on backing vocals.
CLICK
HERE for a Lachlan CD review in the Diary on February 19.
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