DAVE'S DIARY - 2 JULY 2013 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 5 - SERIES 20
KACEY MUSGRAVES NU COUNTRY TV DEBUT
Texan singer-songwriter
Kacey Musgraves debuts on Nu Country TV this Saturday July 13 at 9.30
p m on Channel 31.
Musgraves, co-writer with fellow Texan Miranda Lambert on Miranda's latest
hit Mama's Broken Heart, shares billing this week with Miranda's
singing spouse Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley.
Hunter Valley singer Kirsty Akers, who performed with former Mississippi
boxing champ Paul Thorn on some of his Australian June concerts, also
returns to the show repeated Monday at 3 pm and midnight and Thursday
1am. Blaize Warden edits this series that also features the return of
Reckless Kelly and Cross Canadian Ragweed after rave reviews for their
debut last week.
You can also see this week's program on Catch-Up TV on Channel 31.
MERRY GO ROUND
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Kacey Musgraves
debuts on Nu Country TV with the video for her debut hit Merry Go Round.
Musgraves retraces life from the womb to the tomb with colourful pit stops
en route in suburbia on her parody of life in the not so slow rural lanes.
The sinners and saints in her narcotic narrative bathe in the eerie afterglow
of Tom T Hall's famous Harper Valley PTA as their follies pirouette
on her Merry Go Round video, replete with roller coasters and dodge
em cars.
The satiric song is on her acclaimed CD Same Trailer Different Park
that topped Billboard on debut.
Kacey and fellow Texan Miranda Lambert were both finalists in reality
TV show Nashville Star before signing major record deals.
Musgraves released three indie albums in Texas after starting on the local
Opry circuit at 10.
Her writing preceded her mainstream recording - she wrote Lambert's hit
Mama's Broken Heart, Undermine from ABC TV show Nashville
soundtrack, When You Love a Sinner for Martina McBride and
There's a Person There for fellow Texan Lee Ann Womack.
Rolling Stone recently hailed Musgraves and The Pistol Annies - Lambert,
Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley - as torch bearers for powerful new
women in country music.
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for a Kacey Musgraves CD review in the Diary.
BLAKE SHELTON - COOL WITH TEXAN WOMEN
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Oklahoma
superstar and Voice judge and coach Blake Shelton returns with his
video for Be Sure Cool If You Did from his huge selling eighth
album Based On A True Story. |
They raised $6 million when they headlined the Healing In The Heartland tornado relief concert after twisters struck in Moore and Oklahoma City in May.
The singer's
concert was televised on the NBC network that features The Voice.
Blake's mentoring on The Voice has been a huge success with his
team's strike rate reaching three with teenage Texan protégé
Danielle Bradbery the winner of the latest series in June.
Bradbery is The Voice's youngest winner.
Shelton, who celebrated his 37th birthday on Tuesday, says he doesn't
try to win as much as he tries to build a team that excites him.
"This year, I finally got the country team that I dreamed of since
day one, and I have a little bit more knowledge about that than I had
in the past," Blake said.
"But the truth is, anybody could win if they have Danielle Bradbery.
She's just an incredible, God-given gift to the music industry. Anybody
who can sing like that, with almost no experience whatsoever coming into
this thing, is very special. Any producer, no matter what genre, would
be thankful to work with somebody that talented."
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HERE for our review of Blake's CD in The Diary.
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Page.
BRAD PAISLEY BEATS SUMMER
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West
Virginian Brad Paisley, 40, appears in his video of Beat That Summer
from chart topping ninth album Wheelhouse. Brad creates a Santa Monica carnival atmosphere and continues Kacey Musgraves merry go round theme by using child characters on the beach on this child friendly video. It's a vast contrast to his previous videos featuring characters diverse as Little Jimmy Dickens, now 92, and the late Andy Griffiths. Paisley escalated his chances of an Australian tour by igniting by a mass media storm with his album that hitched a freewheeling ride on social media maelstrom with songs that parodied racism, religious zealots and wife bashers. |
Brad and
wed to actress Kimberley Williams-Paisley, soared to #2 on debut on Billboard
all genre Top 200 and #1 on country charts with sales of 100,000.
It was his seventh chart-topper, aided by a mass media TV variety show
blitz, and polarizing passion of lesser talents.
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for a Brad Paisley Wheelhouse CD review in the Diary on April 22.
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Wheelhouse.
KIRSTY AKERS - ABANDONED LOVE
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Hunter
Valley singer-songwriter Kirsty Akers returns to the show with the
video for Dirty Farmer's Daughter from third album Naked. Akers won Tamworth Star Maker talent quest and a Golden guitar as a teenager but took a 12-month hiatus after being rejected by a Nashville label. |
This time
she channeled her muse and vocals on Olympian middle distance runner Paul
Greene - also a revered singer-songwriter - and fellow producer Matt Fell.
She recorded her album at Green's Red Shelf studio on the NSW south coast
and Fell's Love HZ in Razor city where clients include Sara Storer, McAlister
Kemp, Graeme Connors, Tracey Lee Killeen, Lianna Rose, Sam, Hawksley and
Victoria Baillie.
Akers discovered her indigenous roots while climbing the family tree after
the death of her grandmother.
She discovered she was a descendant of the Wanaruah clan.
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HERE for a Naked review in The Diary on August 23, 2011.
RECKLESS KELLY BACK BEHIND BARS
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Texan
band Reckless Kelly returns to our Behind Bars segment to perform
the video for Pennsylvania Avenue from its ninth album Good
Luck And True Love. The Idaho raised band took its name from the 1993 movie Reckless Kelly about the famed Aussie bushranger. That was 34 years after Mick Jagger starred in the Tony Richardson directed 1969 Ned Kelly movie featuring a soundtrack composed by late former Playboy cartoonist and children's author Shel Silverstein. |
Artists on
that album include Texans - Rhodes Scholar Kris Kristofferson and the
late Waylon Jennings and Thom Ghent.
Reckless Kelly members now hang their hats and heads in Austin Texas.
They released seven studio albums and two live discs - the most recent
was Good Luck And True Love in 2011 on their own label No Big Deal.
Brothers Willy (vocals/guitar) and Cody Braun (vocals/fiddle/mandolin/harmonica)
formed in Bend, Oregon, before relocating to Austin, Texas, in October,
1996.
The Brauns previously toured with their father in Muzzie Braun & the
Boys - a Western swing band - and were joined in their own group by lead
guitarist Casey Pollock, bassist Chris Schelske, and drummer Jay Nazz.
The band played locally on historic Sixth Street in Austin and turned
a small bar & restaurant called Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, into a
popular music venue.
In 2010 Reckless Kelly released Somewhere In Time - an album of songs
by one of their musical heroes Pinto Bennett & the Famous Motel Cowboys.
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HERE for a Reckless Kelly CD review in the Diary on June 30.
CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED TUMBLING ALONG
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Oklahoma
band Cross Canadian Ragweed performs the video for its song Alabama
off Soul Gravy - the fourth of 10 albums it released in its
colourful 15 year career. They moved to college town Stillwater, Oklahoma, where Mike McClure's The Great Divide and singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave established enough of a local scene to earn Stillwater the nickname North Austin. In May 2010 the band announced a hiatus from touring. |
Ragsdale
said "Right now, I need to be at home for my family, particularly
my son JC, who has autism. He's 10 years old now and still struggling
in his development. I feel the only way I can help him is to be more hands
on and close to home."
In September 2010 Canada officially announced the band was calling it
quits by announcing their Last Call Show in October, 2010 at Joe's Bar
in Chicago.
In a March 2012 interview, Canada said the band's breakup was based on
more than Ragsdale's need to be with his family, implying that tension
with Cross was also a factor.
"We just wanted to protect the name of the band", he said.
"There was one person who wasn't happy from an artistic or business
perspective."
Canada and Plato formed The Departed with fellow Yukon-native Dave Bowen
(drums), Seth James (guitar), and Steve Littleton (keyboards), releasing
their debut album in June, 2011.
Ragsdale and Cross both returned to Yukon and Ragsdale toured with Stoney
Larue from December 2011.
Cross purchased and operates the bar that was the very first venue Cross
Canadian Ragweed performed in 1994.
Their song Boys from Oklahoma plays as the credits roll in the
movie Leaves of Grass starring Edward Norton and Susan Sarandon.
HOW TO KEEP NU COUNTRY ON AIR
We need your
support to return to air in December on Channel 31 to celebrate our 21st
series of Nu Country TV.
Australian record companies and artists have joined forces to help our
survival.
We have new CDS by major artists you can win by becoming a Nu Country
TV member or renewing your membership.
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,
Carrie Underwood, Slim Dusty, Felicity and more.
We also have the latest John Fogerty and John Denver all-star tribute
albums and DVDS by Miranda and fellow chart topper Lady Antebellum.
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full details.