Adam Harvey Headlines Nu Country TV
Geelong born trucking troubadour Adam Harvey boomerangs as Nu Country TV headliner at 9 pm on Saturday March 15 on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Oklahoma born star Blake Shelton and Alabama ace Jamey Johnson return to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Virginian bred band Old Dominion, Alabama singer-songwriter Riley Green and Nebraska nymph Kellie Belles also appear on our program filmed and edited by Laith Graham.
Nu Country TV is a highlight of C 31 streaming list on Digital 44.
Further info – https://www.c31.org.au/
Adam Lets His Songs Take Him Home To Geelong
Geelong born nine-time Golden Guitarist Adam Harvey showcases 18th album Let The Song Take You Home on his Nu Country return.
The nine-time Golden Guitarist now 50 and dad of two, performs It’s Getting Late after fronting our show last week with What’s A Man Gotta Do.
Adam was raised in Geelong and follows his beloved Cats footy team from afar.
He now lives with his Terang born wife Kathy and two children in the People’s Republic of Batteau Bay on NSW Central Coast.
Harvey previously fronted our show with many videos including Highway No 1, I’d Rather Be A Highwayman, When Willie’s Gone and Lindeman Again.
CLICK HERE for our previous Adam Harvey CD review.
Blake Shelton Heads To Texas
Oklahoma born singer-songwriter- restaurateur and TV show host-mentor Blake Shelton heads to Texas on his Nu Country return.
Blake, now 48, feared his bucolic belle fled to the Lone Star state in his Texas video.
It was not his second wife – Texan troubadour lass Miranda Lambert – or third singing spouse Gwen Stefani whom he married on July 3, 2021.
Texas follows Blake’s 16 albums and TV roles including The Voice TV judge-mentor from 2011-2023.
Blake and New York actor-rapper Post Malone fronted our show with Pour Me A Drink and with Miranda on Nobody But You.
Shelton also appeared with Come Back As A Country Boy that followed his 14th album Body Language.
Blake was joined by Lambert’s Pistol Annies on a feisty flashback to rural romps in pick-up trucks and wildlife on our show with Boys Round Here – from 2013 album Based On A True Story.
Shelton opened his Ole Red diner-and music venue at Nashville airport in 2022.
The $4.5 million C Terminal project boasts 190 seats, concert acoustics and the largest stage in the airport.
Ole Red joins four sibling venues in Orlando, Florida, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, Nashville and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
CLICK HERE for a Blake feature in The Diary on June 11, 2018.
Jamey Johnson Midnight Gasoline
Alabama outlaw Jamey Johnson returns with some words of wisdom in his Some Day When I’m Old video.
Jamey, 49, was busted late last year after a Tennessee state trooper found several bags of marijuana and pre-rolled joints in his car when he caught him speeding.
Johnson was a member of the Marines reserve for four years.
Some Day When I’m Old on his sixth album Midnight Gasoline.
Jamey and Texan Rachel Bradshaw fronted our show with Townes Van Zandt classic If I Needed You.
Johnson joined Chris and Morgane Stapleton on Nu Country with Every Night Is Saturday Night In New Orleans.
Jamey, 49, is a regular act at Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid concerts and July 4 picnics and appeared in Behind Bars on a Farm Aid concert with High Cost Of Living from That Lonesome Song – his second album in 2008 that preceded his Hank Cochran tribute disc.
CLICK HERE for Johnson’s Hank Cochran Tribute CD feature in The Diary on November 4, 2012.
CLICK HERE for our historic Jamey Johnson interview.
Old Dominion Coming Home
Nashville band Old Dominion took their name from the Virginia home state of some members
They paid tribute to servicemen and women and the women who wait at home for band members when they are out on the lost highway.
Coming Home is on their sixth album Oldies But Goodies.
They also fronted our show with Beautiful Sky and Slow Horses on fifth album Memory Lane, Dancing Forever, Make It Sweet, Hotel Key, Written In The Sand, Be With Me, Song From Another Time, Shoe Shopping and No Such Thing As A Broken Heart.
CLICK HERE for an Old Dominion feature in The Diary on September 18, 2017.
Riley Green Returns
Alabama tourist Riley Green returns to Behind Bars with Dixieland Delight that follows his sixth EP Way Out Here and three albums.
He recently joined fellow tourist Ella Langley on our show with You Look Like You Love Me from Ella’s debut album Hungover.
Riley fronted our show with If It Wasn’t For Trucks from third album Different Around Here, There Was This Girl on second album In A Truck Right Now, Bury Me In Dixie and Damn Good Day To Leave.
Riley, 36, headlined the Ridin’ Hearts festival at Scoresby last year.
Green was joined on stage by Brisbane belle Bella Mackenzie and Canadian Mackenzie Porter and fronted our show last week with Jesus Saves from Way Out Here that follows his three albums.
Riley was a Jacksonville State University football team quarterback before his music career.
He was a CMT reality show Redneck Island contestant as a turkey and deer hunter and hunted deer and turkeys for supper on his Dirt Road TV hunting shows after being a castaway on Redneck Island.
Riley cut a batch of EPs including Outlaws Like Us that featured Bury Me In Dixie – not the tiny town north of Terang on our Shipwreck Coast.
Further info – https://www.rileygreenmusic.com/
Click Here for our Ridin’ Hearts festival review.
Kelli Belles What In The Truck
Nebraska singer Kelli Belles returns to our show with another trucking tune.
Kelli, 25, performs under the name Belles.
She wrote her song What In The Truck about an item left in her beau’s truck by another belle when she was at school.
Kellie filmed her video at Greg’s Auto Repair in East Nashville.
What In The Truck is a familiar idiom and her first single for Deluge Records.
Kellie also sings with her mother under the name Mulberry Lane.
Further info – https://bellesmusic.com/
Win Waylon, George Jones And Merle Haggard
Help us celebrate being Nu Country TV members and win albums by late Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Highwaymen by becoming a Nu Country member or renewing your memberships.
George, Waylon, Merle and Willie Nelson were among country historian Barbara Dowling’s favourite Texans.
The Waylon, Highwaymen, Merle and George discs were donated by Barbara who died at 77 in December, 2020.
She co-hosted Long In The Saddle in our Nu Country FM era and was pioneer Australian and Victorian country music awards judge.
Barbara was admired for rising above losing her sight as a young woman and her country passion with annual trips to Waylon’s birthplace in Littlefield, West Texas.
Waylon died at 64 on February 13, 2002, and is survived by singing spouse Jessi, now 81, and son Shooter, 45.
Win Keith Urban CDs Also
We have expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban’s chart topping 12th album The Speed Of Now – Part 1.
Also BR5-49 CD Big Backyard Beat Show and Billy Ray Cyrus’s historic 1992 album Some Gave All featuring Achy Breaky Heart.
We have other CDS by major artists you can win by becoming Nu Country TV members or renewing memberships.
They include Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kip Moore, Carrie Underwood and late larrikin legend A.P. Johnson.
