Playlist week of 15th November 2014

2014-11-15

15th November 2014 – BBC Playlist

Marie Crichton Country BBC Show: Playlist week of 15th November 2014:

Brand new music from Angaleena Presley, Garth Brooks and Darius Rucker, plus classics from Jean Shepard and the McCarters.

Brian Collins plays live in the studio from West Georgia

Lonestar - Pretty Good Day NEW Single

CW McCall Chip Davis / Bill Fries - Black Bear Road  (CW McCall,  Nov 18, 1972) BIRTHDAY 

Angaleena Presley - Better Off Red | Album: American Middle Class NEW CD - Smart Choice Music - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Dixie Chicks - Long Roads | Album: Thank Heaven For Dale Evans (Dec 1990) Track By Track Details  (Laura Lynch Nov 18, 2014 original member of Dixie Chicks) BIRTHDAY

Interview and Live Session with Brian Collins

Brian Collins - Never Really Left

Brian Collins - Next 500 Miles

Brian Collins - Healing Highway

Joni Harms - Old Fashioned Girl | Album: From Oregon to Ireland NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Katie Armiger - Safe | Album: Fall Into Me  (March 2013) CD – Amazon.com

The Earls of Leicester - Some Old Day | Album: Earls of Leicester CD - MP3 - Amazon.com

Jessi Alexander - Guitar Man | Album: MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com (Nov 18, 1972) BIRTHDAY

Wild Ponies - Massey's Run | Album: Things That Used To Shine CD – MP3 - Amazon.com

Darius Rucker - Homegrown Honey NEW Single

Linda Davis - Years After You | Album: Linda Davis (1992) CD

Foster & Allen - Gold & Silver Days | Album: Gold & Silver Days CD

Josh Turner - Lay Low NEW Single MP3 (Nov 20, 1977) BIRTHDAY

Trisha Yearwood - Georgia Rain | Album: Prizefighter: Hit After Hit (out Nov 17, 2014) NEW CD - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com

Jean Shepard - Leavin' Fever (Single) MP3 (Nov 21, 1933) BIRTHDAY

Garth Brooks - Mom | Album: Man Against Machine NEW CD - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com 

The McCarters - Letter Home | Album: The Gift CD

Stephen Simmons - Just Like A Sad Song | Album: Hearsay (June 2013) MP3

Barbara Fairchild - You Can't Put the City in a Country Girl (single)

Lee Ann Womack – Nightwind | Album: The Way I'm Livin' NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes 

Justin Bernasconi - Crock o Rags | Album: Winter Pick MP3

New on The Show

Stephen Simmons

“Just Like A Sad Song” -  “Nice album on rootsy alt spectrum, definite melodies throughout all the tracks” -  Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire

Genre: Alt.Country / Americana / Roots Rock

Home Town: Woodbury / Manchester, TN

Record Label: Lower 40 (USA) / Blue Rose (Europe)

Affiliation: SESAC

Artist, Writer, Singer, Musician, Traveler

Stephen Simmons was raised in the small town of Woodbury, Tennessee. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father held a factory job. In his family, they were the first generation that

didn’t work the farm. As a songwriter and Ten years as a Road Dog, Stephen’s vision has grown to entail more than just reflections of rural America. The songs on his recordings, deal with existential realities that are familiar to country and city dwellers alike: redemption, heartbreak, hangovers and the loneliness of the road. Stephen’s records: Last Call, Drink Ring Jesus, Something In Between, The Blame’s On U.S., Girls, The Big Show and Hearsay (which were compared to everyone from Johnny Cash to Ryan Adams) combine virtuosic songcraft and musicianship with unparalleled artistic honesty. His work has been covered by Mojo Music, Uncut, and The Washington Post.

His most recent albums have been released by USA indie label Lower 40 Records and in Europe on Germany’s premiere roots label; Blue Rose Records.

On Oct 8th he took off for his Fall 2014 of Europe/UK Tour beginning with solo shows in The Netherlands, Norway, UK & Ireland and then meeting up with his band from Nashville in Germany for a week of shows.

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