DAVE'S DIARY - 21/12/13 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 4 - SERIES 21
ASHLEY MONROE AND CHRIS YOUNG HEADLINE NU COUNTRY TV
Pistol Annies
singer Ashley Monroe returns to Nu Country TV solo in a headlining role
on Christmas Day - Wednesday December 25 - at 10 pm on Channel 31.
Monroe and fellow Tennessean Chris Young showcase their new videos in
a show repeated Monday 5.30 am and 2.30 pm and Tuesday at 1 am.
Shotgun Willie Nelson, 80 and mourning the death of his mentor Ray Price
at 87, joins fellow Texans Asleep At The Wheel in Behind Bars in the show
edited and filmed by Laith Graham.
Former Qantas accountant Amber Lawrence and Mornington Peninsula band
Wilful Damage also perform on the 21st series Christmas show.
Nu Country TV 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
WEED INSTEAD OF ROSES FOR MONROE
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Ashley
Monroe highlights her romantic gift choice in her new video for Weed
Instead Of Roses from her second solo CD Like A Rose. Life has changed dramatically for Monroe, now 27, since she wed Chicago White Sox pitcher John Danks in October. Blake Shelton officiated at the wedding at Blackberry Farm - the same locale where Texan Kelly Clarkson was hitched four days earlier. Monroe's fellow Pistol Annie - Miranda Lambert - was her maid of honor. The singer's CD has shared radio waves with the Pistol Annies second CD Annie Up featuring the Hush-Hush video in which Jim Lauderdale played the preacher. |
CLICK HERE for an Ashley Monroe feature in The Diary on May 27, 2013.
CHRIS YOUNG AGAIN ON KEITH WHITLEY'S GUITAR
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Tennessean
Chris Young returns to Nu Country with the video for a song he wrote on
the late Keith Whitley's guitar.
Aw Naw is on Young's fourth album AM that he released in
spring.
The guitar may be luckier for Young that Whitley who died at 33 in May,
1989, with a blood alcohol reading of 4.77 %
Chris, 28, is still driving his 1996 Ford F150 truck that took him to
gigs a decade ago.
Young has topped the charts frequently in his colourful career that brought
him to the fourth CMC Rocks The Hunter festival in 2013.
CLICK
HERE for a Chris Young CD review in the Diary on October 2, 2013.
CLICK HERE
for a Chris Young feature in the Diary on January 9, 2013.
SHOTGUN WILLIE JOINS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BEHIND BARS
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Willie
Nelson joins fellow Texans Asleep At The Wheel in their video for
You Pretty Woman in this week's Behind Bars segment. The singer is mourning the death of trail blazer Ray Price who died on December 16 at 87 after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. Price gave Willie a big break as bassist in his embryonic sixties band the Cherokee Cowboys. Willie returned the favour by hiring Price to play at his annual July 4 picnics where Asleep At The Wheel was also a regular fixture. |
You Pretty Woman is on the classic album Willie & The Wheel.
Asleep At
The Wheel also performs the video for its wry tune Am I Right Or Amarillo
from its 2008 album Reinventing The Wheel.
The Wheel's live video features a backdrop of diverse locales on famed
Route 66 that runs through Amarillo.
The band has performed for 44 years, moved from San Francisco to Austin
where
co-founder pedal steel guitarist Lucky Oceans, now 62, played with them.
As member of Asleep at the Wheel he won the Grammy Award for Best Country
Instrumental in 1978 for the band's remake of Count Basie's One O'clock
Jump.
In 1977 Oceans, real name Reuben Gosfield, met Christine Haddow - a young
Australian photographer from The Boston Globe whom he married in 1979.
They moved to Fremantle where they had a daughter, Leela.
Oceans released solo albums Lucky Steels the Wheel in 1982 and
Secret Steel in 2005 and discs with his Australian bands including
Dude Ranch and the Zydecats and also hosts ABC TV and radio show The
Planet.
In 1993 he won a second Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a
Duo with Asleep at the Wheel for the band's collaboration with Lyle Lovett
on Blues for Dixie from the 1993 album A Tribute to Bob Wills
and the Texas Playboys.
CLICK HERE
for a Willie & The Wheel feature in the Diary on July 4, 2009.
AMBER
LAWRENCE
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Amber
Lawrence gave a new meaning to a citizen's arrest in her video for
Pretty Little Liar that she wrote with Sam Hawksley for her
latest album 3. The video reveals an assertive gun toting woman turning the tables on a reckless Romeo whom she outshoots and handcuffs to a wall after a fierce pistol battle. Amber and fellow artist Jason Owen showcased their albums on a national tour that included Victorian regional areas as well as the capital cities. They also play the 42nd Tamworth Country Music festival in January. Amber, now 35, overcame personal tragedies in recent years as she pursued her career that followed a stint as an accountant for Qantas. When a Vietnam veteran saved Amber's life as a toddler she didn't reach for her crayon - three decades later she wrote Man Across The Street - also on 3. |
Lawrence
has vivid memories of that day she was rescued from meeting her maker.
She also recalls how her hero, a Vietnam veteran, was shunned on return
from a horrific war.
And, like many other victims of those sixties jungle battles, the troubled
trooper found solace in the booze.
"An actor played the role of The Man - the real man unfortunately
passed away about 15 years ago," Lawrence told Nu Country TV.
"We filmed it in a friend's house in Maroubra in Sydney."
It's not the first time Lawrence turned tragedy into song - she wrote
The Mile about 16-year-old jockey Sam McRae died in a racing accident.
The video for Amber's 2007 debut album title track was filmed at the famed
Randwick Racecourse.
She also wrote Always Kiss Me Good Night about her father who died
of leukemia in September 2008.
It was on her 2009 album When It All Comes Down - she wrote the
title track during her grieving period.
Further info - www.amberlawrence.com
WILFUL DAMAGE
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Mornington
Peninsula band Wilful Damage performs this week in its video for Crossroads
Again from its second album Raw Roots Rock.
The Paul Borg directed video features the band playing on an historic
railway line and rocky outcrops on the edge of Port Phillip Bay at Mt
Eliza.
Wilful Damage features singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Lowe, lead guitarist-producer
Simon Hart, bassist David Gibson, guitarist Kyall Wragge and percussionist
Jarrod DeZilva.
The recording duo of Lowe and Hart met at art school and has operated
for several years - their album Counting The Cost was honoured on 3RPP-FM
with a two-hour special.
Wilful Damage headed towards a country vein as they began recording their
third album - the band covered Ryan Adam's Firecracker and Johnny
Cash's Wreck of Old 97.
Further info - http://www.reverbnation.com/wilfuldamage
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