Texans Koe Wetzel And Kacey Musgraves Headline Nu Country TV
Texans Koe Wetzel and Kacey Musgraves headline Nu Country TV at 9 pm on Saturday April 5 on Channel 31/Digital 44.
Fellow Texans Midland and Delaware singer Robert Eskridge and his band Southern Daze return to our show repeated at 3 am on Monday.
Mornington Peninsula singer-songwriter Paul Dillon and Sydney singer-songwriter Peter Dawson debut 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/
Koe Wetzel And Jess Murph Take The High Road
Texan outlaw singer-songwriter Koe Wetzel and Alabama belle Jess Murph take a higher road in their return to Behind Bars.
Koe took his name from veteran outlaw star David Allan Coe and began his career as Koe Wetzel and Konvicts.
High Road is on his sixth album Nine Lives.
Koe recently took an equity stake in Colorado based Outlaw Light Beer and released his 13-track Live From The Damn Near Normal Tour album.
Wetzel also fronted our show with his Drunk Driving and Good Die Young and Granger Smith’s You Are In It videos.
Koe was born in Pittsburgh, Texas – not Pennsylvania – and his mum was a touring country singer from Camp County, Texas, and his dad worked in construction.
She brought Koe on stage for the first time at age six.
Wetzel was a linebacker at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, but pursued music.
His 2015 debut album Out On Parole was followed by Noise Complaint in 2016 and 2019 album Harold Saul High.
Further info – https://koewetzelmusic.com/
Kacey Becomes An Architect
Texan star Kacey Musgraves takes viewers on a trip to scenic locales with her happy horse in her return to our show.
But she has important questions about her life in another journey in her video The Architect from her sixth album Deeper Well.
Kacey, now 36, married fellow singer Ruston Kelly in 2017 but they divorced after three years in 2020.
She also fronted Nu Country with Deeper Well, Simple Times from her movie Star Crossed, Oh What A World, High Horse and Butterflies.
Click Here for our Kacey interview.
Midland Barely Blue
Texan band Midland return to Nu Country after several Australian tours.
Midland toured here with singer actor Tim McGraw and singing spouse Faith Hill on their 2019 visit.
They live at Dripping Springs – site of the first of Willie Nelson’s 44 July 4 picnics.
Midland performs Halfway To Heaven from their sixth album Barely Blue.
The band also fronted our show with Getting Lucky, Drinking Problem and Burn Out from their debut album On The Rocks.
They took their name from Kentuckian singing actor Dwight Yoakam’s song Fair To Midland.
Lead singer Mark Wystrach was an actor and underwear model before meeting bassist-video director Cameron Duddy and lead guitarist Jess Carson at Jess’s wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Cameron and Jess formed a musical and personal bond picking songs together on Jess’s cabin’s front porch.
Further info – https://midlandofficial.com/
Robert Eskridge And Southern Daze
Delaware singer-songwriter Robert Eskridge and his band Southern Daze open our show with their new video.
The singer, now 56, moved to Kentucky where he graduated from Morehead State University.
Eskridge started playing in local bars and honky-tonks at 16 and through college in various bands in the Lexington area.
He played at Grand Ole Opry, had Saturday night performances at world-famous Ernest Tubb Record Shop and old Stock Yard and Bull Pen Lounge where he played frequently with George Jones Band.
Eskridge, father of four children, and Southern Daze had eight top 10 singles from their first two albums.
She Took Everything But The Blame is on his second album.
Further info – https://www.roberteskridgecountry.com/
Paul Dillon Tows A Gypsy Caravan
Mornington Peninsular singer-songwriter Paul Dillon arrived in Australia 30 years ago from Dorset in England and makes his Nu Country TV debut.
His Gypsy Caravan video told of a girl who bought a caravan to travel to the bush and beyond and headed outback with her husband and children.
That was seven years ago and Paul has not heard where she is now.
Paul filmed his video at Pig and Whistle and the Shed in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula.
Pig & Whistle is an English style restaurant pub and music venue where Wandering Wagons Gypsy Caravan Rentals provided caravans.
The odd sock actors joined Paul on his latest video.
Paul has released three albums and toured as Cat Stevens and performed a song for the Salvation Army for a national ad campaign in support of Australian drought relief.
Further info – https://paul-dillon.square.site/
Peter Dawson Honours Heroes
Sydney singer-songwriter Peter Dawson honours local heroes with an evocative war song.
He wrote Before They Were Heroes with Allan Caswell, Mervyn Webster, Karen Thomsen and Mary-Helen Buchan.
It details the story of a thriving football team who went to war and the devastating effects of battle on the country sportsmen.
The war decimated the team before they arrived home.
Jay Seeney directed the video on sports ovals, war memorials and by the water.
Further info – https://www.facebook.com/smokie.pete/
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.
