2014-08-16
Brand new music from Sunny Sweeney, Donna Hughes & Lee Ann Womack and classics from The Gatlins, Eddy Raven and Justin Tubb
16th August 2014 – BBC Playlist
Billy Joe Shaver - Music City USA | Album: Long In The Tooth NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
The Dixie Chicks - West Texas Wind | Album: Thank Heaven
For Dale Evans (Dec 1990) Track By
Track Details
(Emily Erwin Aug 16, 1972) BIRTHDAY
Eddy Raven - You’re Never Too Old For Young Love | Album: Right Hand Man (Aug 19, 1934) BIRTHDAY
Makena Hartlin - Young & In Love NEW | Album: TBA FREE Download reverbnation
/ buy at makenahartlin.com
The Gatlin Brothers - Sweet Becky Walker | Album: The
Pilgrim / Rain Rainbow 2-ON-1 CD (Rudy Gatlin, Aug 20, 1952) BIRTHDAY
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I’m Livin’ | Album: The Way
I’m Livin’ (out Sept 23, 2014) NEW Single (Aug 19, 1966) BIRTHDAY Jim Reeves - Where We’ll Never Grow Old | Album:The Great Jim
Reeves Box Set 8CD (H&H Records) (Aug 20, 1924) BIRTHDAY For more
information visit www.jim-reeves.com/greatjimreeves ,
tracklists here and order from www.jim-reeves.com or Smart Choice Music
Sunny Sweeney - Used Cars | Album: Provoked NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
Gwen Sebastian - Small Town Soul (Single) US iTunes NEW Single
Collin Raye – Galveston | Album: Still on the Line....the Songs of Glen Campbell (Dec 2013) MP3
Collin Raye – Galveston | Album: Still on the Line....the Songs of Glen Campbell (Dec 2013) MP3
Cody Johnson - Me & My Kind | Album: Cowboys Like
Me (Jan 14, 2014) NEW Single MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com MP3 NEW Single
New on The Show
Celia Bryce Band
“Worker’s Song”
- ”Think Emmylou Harris meets Nanci
Griffith with a bit of Kim Richey thrown in....it’s a nice song...not often you
hear a brass band on the country show I
think it really enhances that track ...I think that is a great addition to our
show” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Hometown: North
Shields
Record label:
Vermillion Road
Celia Bryce is an award winning playwright and
children’s author as well as a supremely talented singer-songwriter.
Her
musical career started in Gilbert & Sullivan at the age of 10 and has
progressed through traditional folk, Irish music, soul and country in various
bands.
All these
influences come to bear in Celia's writing. She plays guitar and accordion and
both her voice and song-writing is feted by many well-known and influential
musicians as diverse as Al Perkins, Jez Lowe & Ray Laidlaw.
Band/ Album
Credits: Tony Schofield (guitar; composed many of the tunes on the second album),
Colin Bradshaw (plays bass, various acoustic guitars, harmony), Eddie Harris
(drums), Lee Cramman (keyboards), Tony Davis (engineer, co-producer, keyboard
player & harmony, Gary Young (arranged the brass parts) Emma Bartch
(ensemble and solo cornet), Elliot Gray (trombone), Lucy Stadward & Barbara
Nortyn (backing vocals and hand claps).
The band's full album
LINKS released in the summer of 2014
"Just
fabulous... raunchy, sexy, bluesy - every ingredient needed to drag British
country kickin' and screamin' into the 21st Century" - Country Routes.
CONNECT with Celia Bryce Band:
Makena Hartlin
”Young & In
Love”
ReverbNation Featured Artist
Award July 2014, August 2014. Ranked
#4 Bridgeview, IL Country / Country Rock
She
is a young country singer-songwriter from Illinois in the process of making her
debut EP
Won
Best Country Act at the 2014 Chicago Independent Music Awards
>>
Listen / Download the gentle, floaty and beautiful “Young & In Love” at reverbnation for an email share to
get an MP3 (160kbps) or visit makenahartlin.com
where you are able to purchase her tracks - Product Image
These
six new tracks were produced, recorded and mixed by Neil Kernon for Auslander.
They were recorded at Groovemaster Recording, Chicago, IL with music and lyrics
by Makean.
Growing
up in a quiet suburban town southwest of Chicago would not normally be the
typical breeding ground for country singers, but the magic of this genre
captured her from the moment the ringing of steel guitars and fiddles, and
melodies of Gary LeVox’s voice in Rascal Flatts struck her ears in 2006. The
essence of contemporary country music had struck a major chord with Makena, and
she began to dig deeper into the roots of this vast, heartfelt area of music.
As
an early adolescent, she idolized country queens such as the Dixie Chicks,
Carrie Underwood, and Miranda Lambert, and kings such as George Strait, Brad
Paisley, and Kenny Chesney.
In
July of 2011, she took a bold risk and auditioned for season 2 of NBC’s “The
Voice”, making it to the top few of over 10,000 that auditioned in her city,
but unfortunately was not chosen to be a contestant on the show. That decision
only fueled her desire to become a self-sufficient singer and song-writer.
From
December 2012 to June 2013, she has opened for national acts and industry
legends such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jo Dee Messina, Mark Wills, Steel Magnolia,
John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Lawrence, Joe Diffie, Keith Anderson, The
Bellamy Brothers, and various other musicians.
Described
as: Makena Hartlins powerful vocals, with a high range and unique clear tone,
compliment her songs which range from high-energy, catchy foot-stompers, to
tear-jerking ballads, all lyrically dense with honesty, humor, and the ins and
outs, ups and downs of life as we know it.
CONNECT with Makena:
Amanda Rheaume
“AGB Bannatyne”
– “Very nice track indeed....really
refreshing album” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre: Folk /
Roots/ Americana
Hometown: Ottawa
Amanda Rheaume
is a powerful vocalist with just a touch of grit and an instantly-accessible
roots-pop-Americana sound. Her latest album "Keep a Fire"(2013), is a
varied and evocative collection of mostly story-songs about her ancestors that
more than lives up to the tradition of epic family-of-origin albums.
Hailing from
Ottawa, Amanda Rheaume is of Métis heritage, which is to say her roots lie in
one of Canada’s aboriginal peoples, a fact to which she pays tribute on KEEP
A FIRE, her second
full-length album and the first to explore a more electric sound.
A sort of
musical Who Do Think You Are, the idea for the album arose from her travels
across Canada, during which time she found herself encountering previously
unknown branches of the family in such places as Saskatchewan, Manitoba and
Alberta, gathering together a wealth of stories along the way.
The album began
to take shape with Ancient Rime, a folksy, acoustic based number evocative of
Joan Baez, which was inspired by her maternal grandfather, Thomas Arthur
Irvine, a crew member on HMCS Labrador, the icebreaker that charted the
Canadian Arctic and the first ship to circumnavigate North America. Furthering
her research led her to northern Manitoba, where her paternal French-Canadian
great-grandfather, Origene, and Ojibway great-grandmother, Stella, were
ostracised by both communities on account of their mixed-race marriage. This
finds expression in Keep A Fire In The Rain, a song set in 1934, where she talks
of her great-grandmother serving as the tribe’s midwife, she and her husband
living, somewhat symbolically, in a cabin he’d built between the reserve and
the mines....Read more in thhis album review at folkradio.co.uk
CONNECT with Amanda Rheaume:
Wayne Taylor
“Sing With Me” -
His 8th album..Dale Ann Bradley harmony
vocals...I really do like it, the whole album is good” -
Hometown: Washington, DC
Record label: Raincoe Music
Influences: Lester Flatt,
Jimmy Martin, James Taylor, Marty Stuart, Bill Emerson, J.S. Bach
Band: Wayne Taylor - Vocals;
Guitar / Emory Lester - Vocals; Mandolin /Scott Walker - Vocals; Banjo
Kene Hyatt - Upright Bass
Wayne Taylor
and Appaloosa are a group of seasoned musicians that play a variety of
bluegrass music from Traditional to Contemporary. They have performed many
festivals in the US and will make their third tour to Europe in July 2012.
Wayne was a former member of
the US Navy Band in Washington, DC from 1987 till 2008. He has performed in 49
of the 50 states, at the Grand Ole Opry, in many foreign countries, and for
four US Presidents at the White House.
A native of North Carolina,
Wayne has produced his eighth project entitled, MOVIN' ON. This solo CD should
prove to be one of his best! This diverse collection of songs features
"Red Is The Color", a tribute to his friend Jim Red Cloud from South
Dakota, who lost his son in 2010. Wayne draws from life's ups and downs to
weave together a colorful tapestry of music.
Wayne formed the group in
2008 after retiring from the US Navy Band Country Current.
CONNECT with Wayne Taylor:
Cody Johnson
“Me & My
Kind” - “Just my kind of music” - Marie
Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Hometown: Huntsville,TX
Texas Country
artist Cody Johnson’s 13 track COWBOY
LIKE ME (K.I.C.-Keep It Country) made a debut at No.33 on the BB200 (#7 Country) selling 8,144 copies for the chart
week of February 1, 2014).
Many Texas Music fans met Cody Johnson’s honest style through the radio singles
from his Six Strings, One Dream album: "Nobody to Blame" (#6 on the
Texas music charts in 2009);
#1"Pray for Rain" (2009 - 2010); and "Texas Kind of
Way" (#6, late 2010 – 2011). At first opening for other artists, Cody has
also taken the Texas dance-halls by storm. Increasingly, the Cody Johnson Band
is the attraction, and an honest-to-goodness one...Read more www.thecodyjohnsonband.com
.
The band
consist: Cody Johnson, Miles Stone (Drums), Jody Bartula (Fiddle), Jeff Smith
(Lead Guitar) and Joey Pruski (Bass Guitar)
Need a Cody
Johnson Band point-of-reference? If you like Mark Chestnutt, George Strait and
Country Music, you’re gonna love this. So, of course this week’s concerts will
turn into huge album release parties for Cody and the guys. His show, by the
way, was nominated for Live Act of the Year at the 2013 Lonestar Music Awards...Read More
countylifeonline - While the Nashville
music scene has taken a different direction in sound, Johnson, an East Texas
native from Groveton, has brought it back to the basics, delivering a powerful
13-song album of genuine country music. This album is full of rich love songs,
slow dance ballads, rockin’ honky tonk rebellious fun and tear in my bear
drinking songs that are reminiscent of the neotraditional country classics from
artist like George Strait, Tracy Byrd, Clint Black, Tracy Lawrence, Mark
Chestnut and Alan Jackson........
CONNECT with Cody Johnson:
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