DAVE'S DIARY - 7/6/10 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 1 - SERIES 14
MELINDA SCHNEIDER HOSTS SERIES PREMIERE
Australian
country music queen and TV star Melinda Schneider hosts the premiere of
Series #14 of Nu Country this Saturday June 12 at 10 p m.
Schneider hosted the show long before flying north to Nashville for the
CMA festival and returning here for a guest role on Seven Network show
Dancing With The Stars.
Texan born singer-songwriter and U.S. Billboard chart topper Miranda Lambert
also returns to the show with a vintage video clip.
Schneider also welcomes fellow Australian young gun Kirsty Lee Akers and
rural reared seasoned songsmiths 8 Ball Aitken and Paul Costa to the gala
premiere.
The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 1 am and 3.30 p m and available
online at the C 31 web page.
SCHNEIDER BRAND NEW DANCE
Melinda compliments her hosting role with a family sourced 2005 video Real People that reaches back to her childhood in Queensland.
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We
feature an interview with Schneider in the former Glen Iris home
of Nu Country TV editor Peter Staubli. Thrice wed Brand, 40 and winner of 12 Golden Guitars landed it after recording 8th album Hell Of A Ride with major producer Richard Landis. |
Schneider,
prolific writer with international songsmiths, was nominated for an Americana
award for Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman - one of three
collaborations with Florida born Elizabeth Cook.
It was the title track of Cook's fourth album and one of their three tunes
on Schneider's fourth album Stronger.
CLICK HERE for a
Melinda feature from the Diary on July 26, 2008
CLICK HERE for
another Melinda feature on August 9, 2006.
MIRANDA LAMBERT
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Miranda
Lambert, daughter of a former Dallas undercover narcotics cop, returns
to Nu Country with the video for More Like Her from her third
album Crazy Ex Girlfriend. We'll feature the new video - evocative tale of returning to a childhood home occupied by new owners - later in the series. |
Lambert's
Australian tour plans were delayed by the huge success of her new album.
The singer fronted her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars tour after
raising $91,000 for abandoned canines at a Cause For Paws fundraiser
in Tyler, Texas.
Lambert, owner of two dogs Delilah and Delta, was out in the woods near
her Tishomingo, Oklahoma, ranch when Shelton, 33, proposed to her.
Miranda, 26, who bought a ranch next door to Shelton's, says she was totally
surprised - not only by the proposal but also by the diamond and platinum
engagement ring he picked out.
CLICK HERE for a Lambert
feature in the Diary on May 5, 2007.
KIRSTY LEE AKERS
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Hunter
Valley raised singer-songwriter Kirsty Lee Akers returns with the
title track of second album Better Days. The dual Tamworth Golden Guitar and Starmaker winner, just 21, wrote four songs on her album. But not Better Days or Knocked Up - the song that shares name with the 2007 Hollywood movie that Loudon Wainwright 111 starred in. That song also appeared on former Trick Pony singer Heidi Newfield's debut solo CD What Am I Waiting For on Sony-Curb. |
Instead it
was Mark D Sanders and Angaleena Presley - who wrote three tunes on this
disc and is published by expatriate Australasian star maker Barry Coburn
and singing spouse Jewel Coburn.
Presley has released a solo album that features original versions of Better
Days, Knocked Up and other quirky songs Pain Pills, Tennessee,
Ain't No Man and American Middle Class.
Akers impressed at the Geelong Stampede and more recently the third CMC
Rocks The Snowys festival at Thredbo in March.
She is on the Guys, Girls, Guitars and Bars June tour with Liam
Brew, McAlister Kemp and Chelsea Basham.
CLICK HERE
for an Akers CD review from the Diary on July 6, 2009.
8 BALL AITKEN
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Multi-instrumentalist
8 Ball Aitken hails from Mareeba in The Atherton Tablelands in Far
North Queensland but is a true rolling stone. The 27 year old spends most of the year touring overseas and throughout the guts of regional and outback Australia. 8 Ball showed how easy it was to perform live on the back of a moving truck without messing up his hair on the video for Booty Call. He is also adept at riding a skateboard and avoiding an angry man with a shotgun. It was not his roadie dad Cue Ball. His latest video clip Black Swamp Creek, aired earlier in the year on Nu Country and CMC, has been released in the U.S. to promote third album Rebel With A Cause. |
We eagerly
await another new video.
"Yellow Moon is a song I wrote about a fellow whose girlfriend
has been taken by a crocodile in North Queensland," 8 Ball revealed
recently about the song that was a finalist in the International Song
Contest in the U.S.
"It feels good to know that the judges like it, especially because
it's an Australian song with uniquely Australian content."
Further info - www.8ballaitken.com
PAUL COSTA - IN THIS LIFE
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Sunraysia
singer Paul Costa exuded altruism when he played at the 2009 Whittlesea
bushfire benefit concert on April 4.
This week Costa performs in the video for In This Life - title
track of his third solo album.
It's one of 12 original songs on the disc.
Costa and his three brothers in rhyme hail from Robinvale on the banks
of the mighty Murray River in the Victorian Sunraysia citrus belt.
Although the Costa quartet performed and recorded together before the
turn of this century they were a creative cottage industry of sorts.
They made six indie albums and toured way beyond their rural river roots
to promote them.
One of those brothers, Noel, also read a book about the great depression
and provided the soul of the song Survivor 1932.
Noel collaborated with Paul and producer Rod McCormack.
Paul also collaborated with fellow Sunraysia raised singer Sara Storer
on the song Big Circle.
CLICK HERE
for a Paul Costa CD review from the Diary on December 7, 2009.
WIN ROSANNE CASH CD
We also have
Rosanne Cash's acclaimed new EMI CD The List - new versions of
classics from a list given to her by late father Johnny when she was 18
in 1973.
Guests on the Cash collection include Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello,
Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright.
Cash's second husband John Leventhal produced the CD for Manhattan Records.
It features songs dating back to the Carter Family, the Hanks - Williams,
Snow and Cochran - Harlan Howard, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan.
We'll reward your new membership or membership renewal with a copy of
the CD - please send us a cheque or money order for $20.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
as stocks are limited.
WIN
DIERKS BENTLEY CD
EMI Records has provided Nu Country TV with Arizona born Dierks Bentley's
fifth chart topping CD Feel The Fire.
Bentley won an enthusiastic following on his debut Australian tour in
May with superstars Brooks & Dunn.
Dierks, 33, has scored seven #1 hits since leaving Phoenix for Nashville
as a teenager.
The singer has broadened his music by including bluegrass - featuring
the famed McCoury family - on albums dating back to his indie debut
Danglin' Rope.
He has also recorded duets with prolific Grammy winner Alison Krauss and
Texan chanteuse Patty Griffin.
Win Feel The Fire by becoming a member of Nu Country or renewing
membership.
It only costs $20 including postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
WIN SLIM DUSTY CLASSIC BOX SET
We have more
good news for viewers - EMI Records has given us an invaluable collectors'
item - a brace of the 4 Box sets by late Australian country legend Slim
Dusty.
Sittin' On 80 features a lost, classic track discovered by Slim's
widow Joy McKean.
Joy found Give Me Room from a 1997 recording at their home studio Columbia
Lane.
It was written by one of Slim's favourite writers John Dohling - outback
station hand and good mate who passed away in November last year.
Sadly he never heard the final version of Slim's recording of his classic
trucking song.
It has now been released as a single and included on Sittin' On 80.
Slim's legendary Travelling Country Band played on the song that has been
digitally re-mastered by Australia's mastering guru Don Bartley.
All you have to do to win Slim's 4 CD Box set is become a member of Nu
Country TV or renew your membership.
It only costs $20 and includes postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS CD OFFER
Universal
Music has donated copies of teen sensation Taylor Swift's huge selling
second album Fearless to Nu Country TV.
Viewers who become members or renew their membership for just $20 can
win the Fearless CD.
Swift, 19, played capacity audiences on her Australian tour in March and
returns here in February.
Please email us at music@nucountry.com.au
with your pledge.
Important note - please email us first.
Don't send membership cheque until you have been confirmed as the winner.
WIN FELICITY CD
Multiple
Golden Guitarist winner Felicity Urquhart returned to Nu Country TV as
hosts during Series #12, beginning in June.
You can win autographed copies of Felicity's sixth album Landing Lights,
available here in shops on Shock.
All you have to do is become a member of Nu Country TV or renew membership.
It only costs $20 including postage.
Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au
and let us know which CD you would like.
We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order
made out to Nu Country Music.
WIN
CATHERINE BRITT CDS
MIKE BRADY TOO
We have Catherine
Britt's third CD Little Wildflower for viewers who wish to become
members or renew membership.
Catherine, Adam Brand and Mike Brady were among artists who donated their
talent to the Whittlesea Bushfire benefit on Saturday April 4.
Brady donated autographed copies of his Country To Country CD to
viewers who become members or current members who renew their membership.
Mike was also a VIP guest host of Nu Country TV during our eighth series.
So for your $20 membership you can win Mike's CD Country To Country
or Catherine Britt's Little Wildflower CD.
WIN JASMINE RAE & STEVE FORDE CDS
We also have
the following CDS for viewers who email our web page and pledge $20 membership
at music@nucountry.com.au
Telstra Road To Tamworth winner Jasmine Rae's debut CD Look It Up.
We also have Steve Forde's fifth album Guns & Guitars.