2015-01-24
Brand new music
from The Shires and Jim Ed Brown, classics from Johnny Cash and Doug Kershaw,
and a 4 track tribute to one of the finest female songwriters of the classic era, Dixie
Hall who died last week.
Dixie Hall, 80,
affectionately known as Miss Dixie, and wife of songwriter Tom T. Hall, passed
away in her home Friday after enduring a long illness. Dixie was born Iris
Violet May Lawrence in her native Sutton Coldfield, England. Songwriters Dixie
and Tom T. covered the country, bluegrass, folk and roots realm with their
storytelling songs. The two of them put out song after song of great lyrics and
music.
Miss Dixie was loved by artists and fans and she loved them as well. Dixie Hall was so much more than just a songwriter. She lived what she preached. She would put artists together to create collections of wonderful music like the Daughters of Bluegrass collection. Being that she was born in England and came to America in 1961. Appalachia and its music were not in her native roots.
She had a strong appreciation for the music as a child and those roots were valuable once she set foot on the soil of those songs. Once she became a part of the music, the culture, the people and life of that region, her songwriting about these things really took off.
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Miss Dixie was loved by artists and fans and she loved them as well. Dixie Hall was so much more than just a songwriter. She lived what she preached. She would put artists together to create collections of wonderful music like the Daughters of Bluegrass collection. Being that she was born in England and came to America in 1961. Appalachia and its music were not in her native roots.
She had a strong appreciation for the music as a child and those roots were valuable once she set foot on the soil of those songs. Once she became a part of the music, the culture, the people and life of that region, her songwriting about these things really took off.
Hall met
country-music avatars The Carter Family through Bill Clifton, who had been
friends with A.P. Carter, and moved in with Mother Maybelle Carter (Photo) at Maybelle’s house in Madison, Tenn. “We’d write songs together
and play canasta,” Hall told writer Skip Matheny in 2009. Johnny Cash cut two
of the songs Hall and Carter wrote during this period. Hall also learned
autoharp from Mother Maybelle, and in her spare time started a company that
published the songs of bluegrass giants Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
She met Tom T.
Hall in 1964 after the two songwriters shared credits on a Mercury Records
single by country singer Dave Dudley. The two married in 1968, but it wasn’t
until Tom T. Hall decided to retire from the music business in 1990 that Dixie
Hall began collaborating with her husband.
Dixie wrote
hundreds of bluegrass songs that artists across the bluegrass spectrum recorded
earning her and her husband ten Songwriter of the year awards from SPBGMA, the
Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. She and Tom T. were
awarded the 2004 IBMA Distinguished Achieve Award. - See more at: cybergrass & nashvillescene
Doug Kershaw - Hey You There | Album: (Jan 24, 1936) BIRTHDAY
Dianna Concoran - Blame Carolina | Album: Love &
Therapy
Donna Ulisse & Pam Tillis - Daughters of Bluegrass - Pickin' Like
A Girl (Box set) - CD Somewhere In Kentucky (Marking the death of Dixie Hall celebrating
her life, a project she wrote and produced with husband Tom T Hall - PHOTO)
Johnny Cash - A Letter From Home | Album: Sings The
Ballads Of The True West (written by Mother Maybelle Carter and Miss Dixie [Hall]) MP3
Steve Azar - The Sky is Falling (Patti Jo’s Prayer)
(feat. Sophie Young) NEW Single
Little Lapin - Over The Draft | Album: Remember The Highs (out 9th Feb 2015) NEW Single
Little Lapin - Over The Draft | Album: Remember The Highs (out 9th Feb 2015) NEW Single
James Robert Webb - Daddy Made A Million NEW
Single
Jim Ed Brown - You Again | Album: In Style Again NEW CD - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com with Cheryl
White (Jan 27, 1955) BIRTHDAY
Callie Twisselman - Breathe NEW
Single
Tammy Cochran - 30 Something and Single | Album: 30 Something
and Single (2009) MP3 (Jan 30, 1972) BIRTHDAY
Stacy York Isaacs - Kentucky In The Rain | Album: Daughters
of Bluegrass - Pickin' Like A Girl
JD McPherson - Let The Good Times Roll | Album: Let
The Good Times Roll NEW (out 9 Feb. 2015) CD - MP3
David Llewellyn & Ida Kristin - Only God Knows | Album: Songs Around the Kitchen Table (2014) NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - CD Baby - Amazon.com
Norma Jean - Jackson Ain’t A Very Big Town (Single)
(Jan 30, 1938) BIRTHDAY
New on The Show
Dianna Concoran
“Blame Carolina”
– “I think this one’s a great song...heard
her voice and I thought WOW!” - Marie
Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Home Town: Parkes
Global Records:
Germany / Silent Gate Music USA / WJO Australia
Current Location:
Australia / USA / Germany
Drawing on
inspiration from love, life and her family, two time Golden Guitar Winner Dianna Corcoran is one of Australian
country music’s most distinguished vocal and songwriting talents. Dianna
released her first album – LITTLE BIT CRAZY – in 2003 and won the Australian
Country Music Golden Guitar for New Talent of the Year the following year.
After numerous writing and recording stints in the US, Dianna’s debut was
followed by her brilliant second release – THEN THERE’S ME. This album earned
Dianna her second Golden Guitar – the prestigious title of Female Artist of the
Year at the 2008 Australian Country Music awards.
With her “down
to earth, country girl” approach to performance, two multi-award winning albums
under her belt and over 400 awards throughout her career, Dianna released her
fresh, upbeat, third album KEEP BREATHING to rave reviews . “Keep Breathing”
was produced by two time Grammy Award winner Rebecca Lynn Howard & Elisha
Hoffman.
Dianna returned
in 2013 with LOVE & THERAPY, an
album displaying the diverse talents of this unique artist.
Love &
Therapy is available at physical retailers throughout Australia and New
Zealand, or you can purchase on iTunes.au In 2014 Dianna’s hit "Therapy" was No.1 for five successive weeks on the national Country Tracks Top 30 singles chart.
Although known in her
homeland as a multi award winning vocalist and writer within the country music
industry, Corcoran lives a life as a producer outside of the public domain producing
projects both in the Pop and Country genre in America and Europe.
In Jan 2015 usually
at this time of year she attends the Tamworth Country Music Festival in the
summer heat of the beautiful Australian country. This year however, she is writing
and producing pop music at the Schedler Music summit and snowy retreat in
Austria!
CONNECT with Dianna Concoran:
Little Lapin
Her voice leaves
a lasting impression with audiences. Her lyrics are carefully crafted and her
music resonates emotion and honesty. She has been making her mark on audiences
all over the world, from New Zealand where she was based for five years, to New
York where she recently performed the last leg of her acoustic tour.
David Llewellyn & Ida Kristin
Successful in
their own rights as solo artists, Brazil born Swedish Ida Kristin has written
and recorded two critically acclaimed solo albums. The debut on V2 records,
included the title track and movie soundtrack >> "Stumble" and featured the duet "Love
is how we stay alive" with Ryan Adams.
David Llewellyn's self-titled debut CD was released in the US (2004) and quickly gained top 10 radio plays on the FolkDJ charts and has proved a fast seller at gigs and house concerts around this country and back home with tours in Wales, Ireland and the UK. He was the Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious 2008 International John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the 2007 Kerrville Folk Festival "New Folk" Competition.
Little Lapin
Current
Location: Bristol, UK
Influences:
Regina Spektor, Feist, Goldfrapp, Altered Images, The Cranberries,Sia, Florence
& The Machine, Ladyhawke, Laura Marling, Bjork, PJ Harvey, The Cure,
Pixies, The Killers, Kings of Leon
Blurb: Little
Lapin is a prolific songbird originally from Cosey Caravan, Devon and is now
based in Bristol (UK).
‘Waiting Room’,
taken from Little Lapin’s 2013 debut eponymous 6 track EP (CD Baby), was featured on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Introducing Mixtape Show
with Tom Robinson, and her sound was described by Tom’s team of music bloggers
at Fresh on the Net as a “A Pretenders for the 21st Century”. Her highly
anticipated follow-up album promised to deliver more of her infectious indie
pop gems. Celebrated New Zealand producer, and ex member of Goldenhorse, Ben
King guests on all of Little Lapin’s forthcoming tracks including ‘Remember The
Highs’ (perhaps in the vien of Mrs Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa).
CONNECT with Little Lapin:
David Llewellyn & Ida Kristin
“Only God Knows”
- A lovely duo ...a beautiful blend of
music ...a great partnership, the music they create is beautiful, really devine
this” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre:
Acoustic/Folk/Singer-songwriter
Home Town:
Nashville, TN USA / Stockholm, Sweden
Record Label:
Dabhand Records/Norna Music
Welsh and
Swedish duo
In 2008, on the
rugged coastline of Sweden, two acclaimed solo artists discovered a creative
connection. Put together at a songwriting retreat, a musical journey in its
most literal sense was inspired and turned into a finely honed songwriting and
performing duo. They instantly found a chemistry, which set them off to record an
album together at David's home in Nashville TN.
In 2014 Llewellyn
& Ida Kristin issued their debut, SONGS AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE (Norna
Music/Dabhand Records) described as an exquisite toe-to-toe recording, that
breathes intimacy and tenderness. - See more at: davidandida.com
David Llewellyn's self-titled debut CD was released in the US (2004) and quickly gained top 10 radio plays on the FolkDJ charts and has proved a fast seller at gigs and house concerts around this country and back home with tours in Wales, Ireland and the UK. He was the Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious 2008 International John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the 2007 Kerrville Folk Festival "New Folk" Competition.
"Songs
Around The Kitchen Table" is essentially a live album recorded & produced
in Blueprint studios Nashville TN, May 2011 and during 2012. They borrowed a
couple of extra mics, set it all up in the livingroom toe-to-toe, and the songs
just kinda chose themselves. It’s an acoustic recording that captures the
spur-of-the-moment freshness of a live performance.
“Coffee Shop Song” was the first song they
wrote together, during their very first meeting at a songwriting retreat on
Gotland, Sweden. It was followed up by the love ballad “This Morning Blues”, a
transatlantic co-write. “Only God Knows”
was written together on one of those hot May Tennessee evenings after a full
day of recording as Ida caught her very first firefly. It was a magical time to
write and put these down, hope you feel it too".
As a gift for
the holiday season, on Dec 1, 2014 they promoted (via Trespass Music - See One Sheet ) and digitally released their cover of "In The Bleak
Midwinter" available on Amazon UK, CD Baby and UK iTunes. The wonderful blend of voices and interwoven guitars makes this
a unique rendition of the classic Christmas carol.
David &
Ida's voices and sparse arrangement make a unique and beautiful rendition of
this classic Christmas carol. "I think it's just perfect, and is worth
listening to at any time of the year, bleak midwinter or not" - Frank Hennessy BBC Radio Wales
CONNECT with David Llewellyn &
Ida Kristin:
