2014-09-20
20th September 2014 – BBC Playlist
Brand new music
from Sara Evans, Red Molly, Nu-Blu and Tim McGraw and classics from Ray Charles
and Marty Robbins. Tribute paid to
country music legend George Hamilton iv who sadly died Wednesday Sept 17, 2014.
Chuck Wicks - Saturday Afternoon | Album: NEW Single
Claire Lynch - Dear Sister | Album: Dear Sister CD Nominated song at The 25th
Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards take place Thursday, October 2,
2014
Heather Dickson - You Can’t Blame The Train | Album:
Eventually MP3 - CD BABY - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Sara Evans - Put My Heart Down | Album: NEW
Single
Debby Boone - Free To Be Lonely Again | Album: The
Best Of Debby Boone (Sept 22 1956) BIRTHDAY
Ray Charles - A Girl I Used To Know | Album: The
Complete Country And Western Recordings 1959-1986 MP3 (Sept 23 1930, died – June 10, 2004 (aged 73)) BIRTHDAY
The Kendalls - If You Let Him Drive You Crazy He Will
| Album: Love Is A Long Hard Road (Royce Kendall Sept 25th 1933, died – May 22,
1998 (aged 62))
David Frizzell - Lonestar Lonesome | Album: The Familys
Fine, But This Ones All Mine / On My Own Again (2 on 1 series) CD
(Sept 26 1941) BIRTHDAY
Carlene Carter - Me & The Wildwood Rose | Album:
Carter Girl Carter Girl CD - MP3 (Sept 26 1955)
BIRTHDAY
Maddie & Tae - Girl In Your Country Song (Single) MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com NEW Single Play MPE (Big
Machine Records / Dot Records)
Mary Sarah & Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden | Album: Bridges: Great American Country Duets CD - MP3 - Amazon.com (Lynn
Anderson Sept 26, 1947) BIRTHDAY
Marty Robbins - Franklin Tennessee | Album: 20th
Century Drifter/MCA Years Double 2-CD (Sept 26, 1925; died Dec 8, 1982 (aged 57) BIRTHDAY
George Hamilton IV – Abilene | Album: Abilene (20 Original
Favourites) CD - Bio
- George Hamilton IV obituary (The Guardian)
Charlotte Whitted & George Hamilton IV - The Note - | Album: Middle Child (Feb 2006) MP3
Charlotte Whitted & George Hamilton IV - The Note - | Album: Middle Child (Feb 2006) MP3
Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider | Album: Sundown Heaven
Town CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
Mary Gauthier - False From Truth | Album: Trouble
& Love CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
New on The Show
Crab Apple Lane:
It’s all a
little overwhelming, this roller coaster ride called Crab Apple Lane, but
bandmates Kirk Wynn and Deena Robbins (who were raised in
Knoxville, TN and both now live in the Fountain City area) are loving the ride.
Wynn graduated
from Halls High School in 2004 and started playing drums when he was 12; it’s
been his instrument of choice for several years, although his family gradually
introduced a guitar into the mix, which he plays while he sings for his current
band. They’ve only been performing together for 14 months, and it wasn’t until
2014 that they got serious about turning the project into a band.
Credit that to
those gorgeous harmonies — their voices blend with such sweetness and beauty
that listeners can’t help but be smitten, by both the individuals singing and
the songs themselves. “Country” is as apt a moniker as any for what Crab Apple
Lane does, but even that isn’t entirely accurate, given what passes for
country on mainstream radio these days. - “I think both of us just get
sick of that kind of music; not to take anything away from those artists,
but I just cringe at doing something just because it’s going to make me
successful,” Wynn said. “We’ve had plenty of opportunities, but we’ve talked it
over and decided to just do whatever we want to do for as long as we can get by
with it. (The Daily Times.com)
Both Kirk and
Deena carried many different roles as local and mainstream musicians. Deena
grew up in a family that just poured musical talent and this apple didn't fall
far from that tree at all. From her first steps on, she's been a natural born
performer with a set of pipes on her that country music may or may not be ready
for. Kirk fell on his musical talents a little later in life. Though always
having been around country music as his grandfather was a well-known "pic
n grin"er in the area, he didn't really focus on his musical talents much
until around high school. But soon after, he saw the light and threw everything
he had at making a life out of music. Fast forward a few years, throw in a few
chance meetings and gigs, and then you'll find the precursor to what eventually
became known as Crab Apple Lane. Kirk and Deena had played here and there together
around town but never thought much of it. But as time went on, a few joking
conversations about creating a band, and one "for the heck of it"
recording later, they realized there was something special there and decided
they had nothing to lose but to join forces and bring the world of country
music to Crab Apple Lane.
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Maddie & Tae
“Girl In Your
Country Song” - “Something contemporary now and they resent being the type of girls that
all the men seem to be singing about nowadays, it was a bit of a grower for me”
- Marie Crichton BBC Radio
Shropshire
18-year
old blondes Maddie & Taelyn
(Maddie Marlow and Taelyn Elizabeth – Top PHOTO!) are a new Country Crossover duo
on DOT Records (Big Machine Publishing).
Check
out the full transcription of the lyrics which
takes down bro-country's treatment of women, it also directly calls out some of
the offenders - not by name but by catch phrases and hooks from their tunes.
Their
influences range from classic (Dolly Parton) to current (Carrie Underwood) to
crossover queen Shania Twain, who they call “THE thing” while growing up in
Texas and Oklahoma.
They
met in 2011 via a vocal coach and known collectively as Sweet Aliana. The girls
are well on their way to laying claim to a new country sound. Love is in the
mix, yes, but there are bigger themes of life and relationships, along with
some frisky role-reversals. And their genre of choice seems the natural home.
The
girls met via a vocal coach during a showcase in late-2011, and the chemistry
was instantaneous. Less than a year later, they’re inseparable. Finishing each
other’s sentences. Giggling at inside jokes. Crafting songs that seem less
works of studio art and more expressions of their inner-selves.
Quotes:
"Amazingly
big talent, consistent musicians, and they sing great" - Dan Huff (Producer)
"Your
not just looking at a single it's something that is right song at right time
with a genuine act who can deliver this message, it's not just that, you see
all of the depth behind it and you can't sit on an album's worth of material
like that" - Mike Molinar
(Publisher)
"Girl
In A Country Song is just the tip of the iceberg" - Aaron Scherz (co-writer/co-producer)
“One
of the reasons we activated Maddie & Tae right now, it started with this
song, ‘Girl In A Country Song’,” says Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta in the duo’s >> EPK.
“I think we’re starting off Dot Records with an absolute heater. There is a
gaping hole for a female act to come and re-engage teenage girls in the format.
It really hasn’t happened since Taylor (Swift).”
CMA Close Up
Maddie & Tae performed at the AT&T Showcase Stage at AT&T U-Verse
Fan Fair X on Saturday, June 7 during the 2014 CMA Music Festival in downtown
Nashville.....
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