DAVE'S DIARY - 20/8/13 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 11 - SERIES 20
JOHN FOGERTY HEADLINES NU COUNTRY TV
Legendary
singer-songwriter John Fogerty headlines Nu Country TV this Saturday August
24 at 9.30 pm on Channel 31 with his video of a new song from his tribute
disc - Wrote A Song For Everyone.
Fogerty and fellow icon Shotgun Willie Nelson, returning to Behind Bars,
have ensured their longevity by writing new songs each year.
Sara Evans, making her debut Australian spring tour with Georgian superstar
Alan Jackson, also returns to the show repeated Monday 3 pm and midnight,
and Thursday at 1 am.
And unsung songwriter Will Hoge returns to Behind Bars on an episode filmed
by Laith Graham on a series edited by Blaize Warden.
Fawkner singer Jasmine Rae and Western Australian singer-songwriter Jonny
Taylor showcase new videos on their national tours that include Gympie
Muster this weekend.
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FOGERTY RIDES ON THE MYSTIC HIGHWAY
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Creedence
Clearwater co-founder John Fogerty debuts on Nu Country with the video
for Mystic Highway - one of the new original songs on his tribute
album Wrote A Song For Everyone. It features acts diverse as expat Australasian superstar Keith Urban, March visitor Zac Brown, Brad Paisley, Bob Seger, Miranda Lambert, Foo Fighters and spring tourist Alan Jackson. Fogerty describes Mystic Highway as another song about an "extended family in constant motion along their journey of destiny." |
He also passed
the baton to sons Shane and Tyler for Lodi - a fatalistic blues-rocker
with slide guitars and a driving stomp - written from his California childhood
travels with his father.
But it was the flip side of fame prompted the title track penned when
Fogerty's ex-wife left him for a Sunday drive while he wrote songs.
"As the door closed I saw the phrase 'wrote a song for everyone and
I couldn't even talk to you.'"
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SARA EVANS MOVIE SONG
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Missouri
born minstrel Sara Evans returns to Nu Country on the eve of her debut
Australian tour with Georgian superstar Alan Jackson with the video for
a song featured in the Tim McGraw-Gwyneth Paltrow movie Country Strong.
Sara performs in the video for A Little Bit Stronger from her sixth
album Stronger and most recent of her Greatest Hits discs.
Evans 42 and mother of three, is bringing her bassist brother Matt and
her two daughters on her tour that also feature Newcastle singer-songwriter
Morgan Evans - no relation.
They debut at CMC Rocks North Queensland in Townsville before playing
Rod Laver Arena on Friday October 4 and the 15th Deni Ute Muster.
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our exclusive Sara Evans interview in The Diary on August 6.
SHOTGUN WILLIE RICOCHET
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Octogenarian
Texan singing actor Willie Nelson returns to Behind Bars with a video
for I Wish I Didn't Love You So from his 61st solo album Let's
Face The Music & Dance.
Willie Nelson, who turned 80 on April 30, proves he & trusty guitar
Trigger are still masters of the genre.
The singer celebrated his 40th July 4 picnic this year and headlines Farm
Aid next month with Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews.
Also on the bill are fellow Texan Kacey Musgraves, son Lukas Nelson &
Promise of the Real, Jack Johnson, Amos Lee, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bahamas,
Carlene Carter, Pegi Young & The Survivors, Sasha Dobson and The Blackwood
Quartet.
Willie also recorded new duet album To All The Girls featuring
18 female artists and released on September 24.
To All The Girls is Willie's third album of new music released
in the last 16 months as he celebrate his ninth decade.
Artists include daughter Paula, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Miranda
Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Loretta Lynn, Alison Krauss, Mavis Staples, Carrie
Underwood, Wynonna Judd, Norah Jones, Secret Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Tina
Rose, Melonie Cannon, Shelby Lynne and Lily Meola.
Willie also wrote a memoir, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
with foreword by singing Texan crime novelists Kinky Friedman.
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HERE for our review of Let's Face The Music And Dance in the Diary on
April 29.
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WILL HOGE
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Tennessean
singer-songwriter Will Hoge returns to Behind Bars with a song he
recorded after he almost died in a scooter crash. Hoge, 41, packed up his troubles in the video for Favourite Waste Of Time in Franklin - a Civil War town, also home to frequent Australian tourist David Lee Murphy. The song is on Hoge's aptly titled 2009 album The Wreckage. Will has released eight albums, several live discs and EPS. He is also renowned for writing hits for artists diverse as Lady Antebellum and the Eli Young Band who toured here with singing actor Tim McGraw and singing spouse Faith Hill. |
Will co-wrote
the North Texan Eli Young Band's #1 hit Even if It Breaks Your Heart
before releasing 2012 EP Modern American Protest Music.
The seven-song project includes Jesus Came To Tennessee and ends
with topical tune The Ballad Of Trayvon Martin - and touches on
religious and political issues.
"I have a feeling that Modern American Protest Music will
instantly cause a reaction because these are hot button issues for a lot
of folks," Will admits.
"I don't want to fool people into thinking this is another Will Hoge
country/rock record about girls, this is something very different. I'm
not looking for people to agree or disagree, it's a personal expression
from me as a songwriter."
Hoge also recorded opening theme song You Make Me Happy for CBS
sitcom Still Standing and appeared at 2013 Grammy block party in
Nashville with Kip Moore.
Further info - http://willhoge.com/wired
JASMINE RAE
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Fawkner
raised singer-songwriter Jasmine Rae returns with the video for with
If I Want To - title track of her third album that she launched
at Rooty Hill RSL early this month before a Gympie Muster showcase. Jasmine, 26, wrote it with Bob DiPiero - ex-husband of Nashville star Pam Tillis. She filmed the video at a Freshwater mansion on Sydney's north shore Jasmine wrote several songs inspired by the tragic death of her motor mechanic dad - she debuts at Queenscliff Music festival in November. |
CLICK HERE for a Jasmine feature in the Diary.
JONNY TAYLOR
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Western Australian
singer-songwriter Jonny Taylor returns to Nu Country with his video for
another poignant social comment tune.
Jonny Taylor chanced his guitars & soul on a railway track at Moulyinning
in a forest in the WA wheat belt in the video for Brighter Than You
- a song designed to help fellow Australians beat depression.
It's on his second album Something To Say that he showcased this
weekend at Gympie Muster in a Queensland forest.
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a Jonny Taylor feature in the Diary on July 16, 2013.
HOW TO KEEP NU COUNTRY ON AIR
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support to return to air in December on Channel 31 to celebrate our 21st
series of Nu Country TV.
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They include singing actors Willie Nelson and Tim McGraw, Voice judge
Blake Shelton and singing spouse Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Brad
Paisley, Gary Allan, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church,
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We also have the latest John Fogerty and John Denver all-star tribute
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