Lukas Nelson Headlines Nu Country TV
Texan troubadour and Australian tourist Lukas Nelson boomerangs as Nu Country TV headliner at 9 pm on Saturday March 22 on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Georgian tourists Kane Brown and Luke Bryan return to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Missouri minstrel Chris Janson and Australian stars James Johnston, Bella Mackenzie and South African singer Appel 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/
Lukas Nelson Live At Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Lukas Nelson – one of Shotgun Willie Nelson’s eight children from his four marriages – returns to our show live at Red Ants Pants Music Festival in Montana.
The Grammy winner performs Can You Hear Me Love You solo from a cattle yard in Elton Lee’s back pasture.
Lukas, now 36, toured here in 2019 with his band Promise Of The Real and fronted our show with Willie, now 91 on My Best Friend.
He plans to return here this year to promote his 12th album Sticks And Stones.
Lukas and West Virginian Sierra Ferrell also performed live on Nu Country from High Sierra at Fresh Grass Music festival in Berkshire Mountains in North Adams, Massachusetts, on September 24, 2023.
Lukas, Sierra, and Travelling McCourys fronted our show with Someone Like You and teamed with his Family Band, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks to honour his dad Shotgun Willie Nelson on the eve of his 92nd birthday on April 29.
Lukas joined Susan and Derek in their revamped version of Whiskey River Willie wrote with late Johnny Bush in 1972.
It was on Bush’s album of the same name and Willie turned it into a big hit on his 1973 album Shotgun Willie.
Willie fronted our show with South African Orville Peck and their humorous homily Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other, Ride Me Back Home, Last Leaf and Made In Texas.
Luka plans to follow Tim McGraw as a pilot and fly to Uluru on his next Australian tour.
Click Here for a Lukas Nelson interview in The Diary on January 2, 2024.
Click Here for a Willie & The Wheel feature in the Diary on July 4, 2009.
Kane Brown A Back Seat Driver
Georgian Kane Brown, who toured here last year with Kaylee Bell and Kameron Marlowe, returns to our show with help from his family.
Kane, now 31, wrote Back Seat Driver about a road trip with singing spouse Katelyn, their two daughters Kingsley and Kodi and son Krewe.
It’s on his fourth album The High Road.
CLICK HERE for our Kane Brown concert review.
Luke Bryan Loves Joeys
Fellow Georgian Luke Bryan, who first toured here in 2018, also boomerangs to our show with Love You Miss You, Mean It from his 15th album Mind Of A Country Boy.
Luke, now 48, and his wife Caroline named their Red Bird Farm after Luke’s older sister Kelly who died.
Bryan gave Caroline two kangaroo joeys for Christmas on the eve of his debut tour as headliner of the 2018 CMC Rocks Queensland festival.
The Roos live in Brett’s Barn on their farm, named after their niece Sadie Brett who died, aged seven months, of liver and heart disease and Downs Syndrome.
They were named Margo and Todd after yuppie neighbour on National Lampoon Christmas Vacation and share the barn with other pets.
But the Joeys didn’t join Luke when he played Rod Laver Arena with Tennessean Dustin Lynch.
Bryan and Californian Jon Pardi joined rodeo riders and ranchers with their horses and cattle in their previous Nu Country appearance with Cowboys And Playboys from Pardi’s sixth album.
CLICK HERE for a Luke Bryan feature in The Diary on June 3, 2012.
Further info – https://www.lukebryan.com/home
Chris Janson Goes Cheap
Missouri maestro Chris Janson returns to our show after fronting with expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban on their hit Sold.
Chris, now 38, also appeared last year fishing and hunting with Dwayne The Rock Johnson on their duet What You See Is What You Get.
This time he goes fishing with his family and sings how time makes money look cheap with an hourglass as his pointer.
Cheap follows his fifth album the Outlaw Side Of Me and three EPs.
CLICK HERE for a Janson CD feature in The Diary on November 16, 2015
James Johnston Country
Dual Golden Guitarist and Wingham raised farmer James Johnston, now 34, and South African duet partner Appel honour their country music from Capetown to Sydney and Nashville.
Country Is For Me follows James 2023 debut album Raised Like That.
He recently fronted our show with Corryong born country king Lee Kernaghan as they celebrated our heroes on the front line and bush in Who I Am from Lee’s 20th album out this year.
Who I Am was written by Kernaghan and Johnston with Nolan Wynne, Nick Wolfe and Colin Buchanan.
Johnston busked in Tamworth as a child and arrived at Tamworth festival this year after running 100 kilometres to raise $10,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charity.
He hosted Tamworth Golden Guitars concert as a finalist in four categories.
James was raised on a forty acre farm at Wingham near Manning River on New South Wales north coast.
He travelled with his dad as tractor salesman-mechanic and debuted on stage at four with a Garth Brooks song.
He came third on The Voice in 2008 before hitting the music road in his van and then Nashville.
James has written more than 200 songs and played TV shows, rodeos and festivals.
Further info – https://jamesjohnston.com/
Bella Mackenzie Heads Down South
Mackay minstrel Bella Mackenzie returns to our show after playing Riding Hearts festival at the Caribbean Gardens in Scoresby.
She hit the stage with Alabama headliner Riley Green after she opened the festival.
Bella, now 20, grew up in small Queensland coal mining town Moranbah and filmed some of her videos on the family farm near Rockhampton.
She performs new video Down South on Island Records that follows singles including Country Cowboy, 1,2,3, You And Me, Wild Thing, Ain’t For You, Make Me Wanna Love and Miss You No More.
Bella previously fronted our show with Mississippi minstrel LECADE on Wasted.
The Voice TV show star was raised on her family farm wrangling horses, cows and trucks.
Further info – https://www.bellamackenzieofficial.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.
