DAVE'S DIARY - 1/3/14 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 1 - SERIES 22
GORD BAMFORD CLOSE LIPS OPEN NU COUNTRY TV SERIES 22 PREMIERE
Expatriate
Australian country singer Gord Bamford and Texan Aaron Watson perform
double shot videos about lips on the Nu Country TV Series #22 premiere
on Thursday March 6 at 10.30 pm on Channel 31.
Sydney bluegrass band The Pigs also return with their favourite drinks
on a show repeated on Mondays at 5.30 am and 2.30 pm.
Texan Jason Eady performs marathon radio social comment song AM Radio
Heaven in Behind Bars hosted by Mid Pacific Bob Olson and filmed
and edited by Laith Graham.
Arkansas outlaw Justin Moore also returns with his latest hit video.
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
EXPAT GIPPSLANDER PUTS GLOSS ON LOVER'S LIPS
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Traralgon
born singer-songwriter Gord Bamford returns to Nu Country with the
video for When Your Lips Are So Close from his sixth album
Country Junkie. Bamford now hangs his hat in Calgary, Alberta, where close lips may keep old cowboys warm in snow-capped mountains. Gord, now, 37 left Traralgon with singing mum Marilyn when he was only five years-old. |
He has kept the pure country flame blazing by releasing six albums.
In January
2001 Bamford released debut album God's Green Earth - he wrote
two songs but the album failed to impact and he left the business discouraged.
In 2003 he headed to Nashville, writing with Steve Fox, Tim Taylor and
Byron Hill who co-produced his second album Life Is Good.
Bamford wrote 10 of 11 songs - six singles included top 20 hits My
Heart's a Genius, All About Her, Life Is Good and I Would for You.
His third album Honkytonks and Heartaches produced by Byron Hill,
was released on September 25, 2007 - first single Blame It On That
Red Dress, was Gord's first top 10 hit on Canadian charts.
Gord Bamford's fourth album Day Job was released in April 2010
with singles Day Job, Put Some Alcohol On It, My Daughter's Father
and Hank Williams Lonesome.
Bamford's fifth album Is It Friday Yet? was released in March 2012
with five singles - Is It Friday Yet?, Leaning on a Lonesome Song,
Disappearing Tail Lights, Farm Girl Strong and Must Be a Woman.
Bamford's sixth album, Country Junkie, was released in October
2013 and Christmas in Canada, in November 2013.
Further info - www.gordbamford.com
AMARILLO SINGER SEALS LIPS WITH A KISS
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Amarillo
Christian University graduate Aaron Watson called home from Las Vegas
- the city that never sleeps and works wonders on strangers in town
- in the video for Lips from his 11th album Real Good Time. Watson recalled the famed Broken Spoke cowboy bar in Austin and a Baptist Preacher's daughter in another song from a live CD/DVD Deep In The Heart Of Texas recorded at Hog Creek Ice House in Waco on June 27, 2009. |
Asleep At
The Wheel icon Ray Benson produced Watson's 2004 album The Honky Tonk
Kid featuring guest cameo by Shotgun Willie Nelson.
Watson played junior college baseball in New Mexico and performed around
Texas before releasing debut album, A Texas Café.
Aaron, now living in Abilene, and his band Orphans of the Brazos appear
on his 2005 album, Live at the Texas Hall of Fame.
In 2006 his San Angelo release hit No. 60 on Billboard country
charts.
Later that year Watson, 37 and father of four, released a collection of
gospel songs - Barbed Wire Halo - including readings by latter
day veteran Waco singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver.
On April 1, 2008, Watson's eighth album Angels & Outlaws peaked
at 28 and hit the Billboard Top 200 all genre chart.
He has since released The Road And The Rodeo in 2010 and Real
Good Time in 2012.
Watson wrote recent message song Raise Your Bottle for his dad
who was disabled in the Vietnam War.
He has used it to raise money and awareness for the Boot Campaign - a
foundation that supports American troops upon their return home.
Further info - www.aaronwatson.com
JASON EADY REVELS IN AM COUNTRY HEAVEN BEHIND BARS
Mississippi
born latter day Texan Jason Eady lands punches in his video for social
comment song AM Country Heaven - title track of his fifth album.
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It's
the second of three albums produced by frequent Australian tourist
Kevin Welch who now calls the Texas Hill Country home. Although country was Jason's first love he was exposed to the musical stew of the lower Delta - blues, soul, R&B and primal swamp rock - growing up in Jackson, Mississippi. |
Eady performed
local bars at 14, singing, playing guitar and writing songs but live music
culture in the Magnolia State was geared to hits and classics.
He moved to Nashville to seek a record deal but became disillusioned and
headed back to Mississippi, joining the Air Force on the way home.
"Becoming a translator in the Air Force helped me be a better songwriter,"
Eady says.
"I got a much broader view of the world and other cultures that helped
me see things from a better perspective."
After the military Eady worked in a Fort Worth bank's IT department and
attended open mic nights.
"I was surprised to learn Texas was exactly opposite of Mississippi,"
he says.
"If you played too many cover songs the audience would get restless.
They wanted original music."
That encouraged him to step up song-writing and leave his day job, never
to return.
Eady first two albums, 2005's From Underneath the Old and 2007's
Wild Eyed Serenade, "were about trying to zero in on what I wanted
to do. They had singer-songwriter, country, southern rock and other kinds
of songs.
"I had no idea about production or how to work in the studio,"
Eady revealed.
"I was all over the map. Things really clicked when I started working
with Kevin. He helped me focus on the music I heard growing up in Mississippi,
but as a way of discovering more about who I was as an artist. With AM
County Heaven and now Daylight and Dark, I've learned to stop
second guessing. Now I understand I'm a country artist. That's the music
I love, and that's what I always want to be."
But semi-autobiographical sixth album Daylight and Dark is not
a concept disc - it's a raft of real stories populated by characters that
coalesced around the title track and cracked Top 40 on Billboard.
"One of the things Kevin Welch taught me is that believability is
number one," Eady says.
"The things I'm writing about have to seem true and the words being
said need to sound like they'd really come out of my mouth."
Daylight and Dark was cut outside Nashville at engineer George
Bradfute's Tone Chaparral studio with Americana award winning multi-instrumentalist
Fats Kaplin on pedal steel and fiddle, guitarist Richard Bennett, drummer
John Gardner and bassist Steve Mackey.
Further info - www.jasoneady.com
JUSTIN MOORE LETS THE NIGHT ROLL
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Arkansas
outlaw Justin Moore returns to Nu Country with the video for Letting
The Night Roll from his third album Off The Beaten Track. Justin turns 30 on March 30 and took his brunette belle and Chevy pick-up to the levee but the boys in blue also joined the Chevy chase. The title of Moore's second album Outlaws Like Me gave Shooter Jennings fodder for his song Outlaw You. Justin, father of two daughters, toured in 2012 with Rascal Flatts who play St Kilda Palais with The Band Perry. Moore had #1 hits with Small Town USA and If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away but scored flack for his #6 hit Backwoods. In February 2012, songwriter Bobby Carmichael turned on the radio and was stunned to hear a song he claims to have co-written eight years ago. |
Backwoods
has been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
Outlaws Like Me - the Big Machine album on which it appeared, has
sold almost half a million copies.
Carmichael has not earned a cent on the song, despite its having nearly
identical lyrics, pitch and rhythm to the track he co-wrote with Louisiana
fiddle player Britton Curry, according to a federal lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court for Middle District of Tennessee.
Carmichael and Curry are asking for $150,000 for each act of copyright
infringement.
They claim Jamie Paulin, who was working for publisher Island Bound, "heard
and/or secured" a copy of the song.
Three years later, Paulin, songwriter-producer Jeremy Stover and Moore
wrote the song that appeared on Moore's debut album, and, as the lawsuit
submits, earned an untold amount of money from a stolen idea.
CLICK HERE
for a Moore feature in the Diary on January 30, 2013.
THE PIGS LIQUID DIET
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Sydney bluegrass
band The Pigs return to Nu Country with their favourite drink - Milkshake.
They filmed their video from their hats at 11 concerts in Europe.
Milkshake is on The Pigs third album The Great Bluegrass Swindle.
They perform this weekend at the 38th Port Fairy folk festival with The
Flying Emus, enjoying a reunion, Beccy Cole, Shane Nicholson, Melody Pool,
Mick Thomas, Damien Howard, the Waifs siblings in the Stray Sisters, Normie
Rowe and many more.
International artist include Pieta Brown & Love Over Gold, Jon Cleary
& Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Lúnasa, Topp Twins, Alaska String
Band, Pokey La Farge and Rory McLeod.
The Pigs share their name with a Bristol punk rock band formed in 1977
and have appeared on ABC TV shows Rage and Spicks' N Specks.
Further info - www.thepigs.com.au
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