Playlist week of April 25, 2015

2015-04-25

25th April 2015 – BBC Playlist

Highlights of the 50th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards a tribute to songwriter Nancy Montgomery who recently died following a battle with cancer. Classics from Johnny Horton and Charley Pride with brand new music from Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Daryle Singletary and Shelby Lynne.

Luke Bryan - Better Than My Heart | Album: Crash My Party CD ACM Entertainer of the Year

Shelby Lynne - Paper Van Gogh | Album: I Can't Imagine (out May 4, 2015) MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com  NEW

Rob Crosby - She’s A Natural | Album: One Light in the Dark MP3 (April 25, 1954) BIRTHDAY (For Bill in Litchfield) 

Highway 101 - Baby I’m Missing You | Album: BING BANG BOOM (1992) Amazon UK  # Featured songwriter Nancy Montgomery 

Graeme Connors - Let The Cane Fields Burn | Album: (April 29, 1955) BIRTHDAY

LeAnn Rimes - Ten Thousand Angels Cried | Album: Top 25 Country Songs Of Faith (Hump Head) 2-CD CD - MP3 (Oct 14)

Cale Tyson - Lonesome In Tennessee | Album: Introducing Cale Tyson NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes 

Mary Black - Marguerite And The Gambler | Album: Stories from The Steeples (Nov 2011) CD – MP3

Daryle Singletary - Spilled Whiskey | Album: There's Still a Little Country Left NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com 
Deanie Richardson & Second Fiddle - Moving On | Album: In The Mood (1994) MP3 (co-written with Irene Kelley) # Featured songwriter

Charley Pride - Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town | Album: The Ultimate Hits Collection 2-CD 

John & Audrey Wiggins - There Hearts Are Dancing | Album: John & Audrey Wiggins (1994) MP3  (For Roy Frost)

Mulligan Brothers - I Don’t Want To Know | Album: Via Portland MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Karen Brooks - Love Has Left The Building (April 29, 1954) BIRTHDAY >> Live in 2009

James Bonamy - The Swing | Album: Roots And Wings (1997) CD

Tia McGraff - Mesa Gold | Album: Crazy Beautiful (Bandana Records) CD Baby  

Johnny Horton - North To Alaska | Album: 6 Classic Albums Plus.. Box set NEW (April 30, 1925; died November 5, 1960 (aged 35)) BIRTHDAY

Lee Brice - I Don’t Dance | Album: : I Don't Dance MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com  ACM Single Record of the Year 

Reba & Brooks & Dunn - If You See Him | Album: Reba McEntire / At Her Very Best CD ACM 50th anniversary Milestone Award

Delta Reign - Country Sunday | Album: Nothing But Sky NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com 

Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard - It’s All Going To Pot | Album: Django And Jimmie (out 1 June 2015) CD  NEW Single Play MPE 

The McCarters - The Gift | Album: The Gift (1988) Amazon UK # Featured songwriter

The Gibson Brothers - The Sweetest Gift | Album: Brotherhood (Feb 2015) CD - Amazon.com

Tim McGraw - Diamond Rings & Old Barstools | Album: Sundown Heaven Town CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com (May 1, 1967) BIRTHDAY

New on The Show

Cale Tyson

“Lonesome In Tennessee” - ”Very honky tonk reminds me of Dwight Yoakham in places” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire 

Cale Tyson is a singer and songwriter from Nashville, TN. Born in a small town in Texas, he was raised in Fort Worth, the home of Townes Van Zandt and the place where he first heard the classic country sounds that have inspired and enriched his gentle, melancholy, and undeniably whiskey-soaked sound.

In 2013, Tyson released HIGH ON LONESOME, his debut EP, which features Kenny Vaughan (Marty Stuart) on electric guitar. The release was featured on CMT.com and in American Songwriter Magazine, as well as numerous other outlets. Tyson has recently been opening shows for Dwight Yoakam on the road, in addition to wrapping up a new record which heavily features Robert Ellis on guitar and vocals. In April 2014, Tyson was featured as one of PolicyMic’s “9 Real Country Music Stars of Our Generation.” In October 2014, Rolling Stone featured Tyson as one of the "10 New Country Artists You Need To Know."

"Old school, sad-bastard outlaw country for a new generation of excited country fans."  - Rolling Stone

Cale Tyson is easy to pick out in a crowd. You can’t miss him: just look for the tall guy in a Stetson hat and classic western wear. Put two and two together and it isn’t hard to guess that Tyson has a hand in country music. His latest EP, Cheater’s Wine, is a six-song goldmine of classic country songs and features Robert Ellis on guitar. Ellis got involved with the project after sitting in with Tyson’s band at a local dive bar during one of Tyson’s weekly performances. “My friend suggested I just go up and ask him if he wanted to work on the EP, and he said ‘yes.’”

Before he was hanging out with Robert Ellis and performing internationally (he has a run of U.K. shows planned for spring), Tyson was an intern at American Songwriter, where he first formed his sensibilities about the songwriting world....Read More....Intern Hall of Fame: Cale Tyson American Songwriter.com

LR Baggs & American Songwriter present Cale Tyson & Pete Lindberg performing >> Traveling Man.

Music: (27 Oct 2014) High on Lonesome (Clubhouse Records UK) 7 Tracks/ Time: 23:08 (Country Music People November; Rating: 5 Stars) MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

(7 April 2015) Introducing Cale Tyson (Clubhouse Records) 13 Tracks (Country Music People April 2015; 5 Stars) CD - MP3 - UK iTunes >> Test Drive on SPOTIFY

Clubhouse Records were delighted to announce the release of 'Introducing Cale Tyson' a thirteen track album featuring the rising country star's first two highly acclaimed EPs, HIGH ON LONESOME and CHEATERS WINE.

“This could well be one of the most important releases this year and we owe it to country music to make sure his upcoming live shows are sell outs” - Duncan Warwick (Country Music People)

“REALLY REALLY good ...Great sound” -  Bob Harris BBCRadio 2

Cale Tyson with INTRODUCING CALE TYSON (Clubhouse Records UK) made a bow at No.13 on the Official UK Country Album Chart (chart week 12 April - 18 April 2015)

Cale Tyson interview with >> countryfriedrock >> YouTube

UK and Ireland Tour (April/ May 2015) - Tour Details

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Delta Reign

“Country Sunday” – “I think they’re great ...it’s a really delight, love it, the whole album is great, this one particularly struck me...it’s a lovely album and that track is just beautiful”  - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire 

Genre: Bluegrass, Americana, Swing, Folk, Blues

Record Label: Mountain Fever Records

Band Members: Benita Murphy (Lead vocal, Guitar), Pat Murphy (Vocals, Banjo, Dobro), George Mason (Vocals, Fiddle) & Josh Faul (Vocals, Bass)

Home Town: Mobile, AL

Current Location: Mobile, AL

Influences: Flatt and Scruggs, Jim and Jesse, The Osborne Brothers, Vassar Clements

Short Description: "delta bluegrass" from the Mobile River delta region of the gulf coast. As 5 rivers flow together into Mobile Bay to form the delta, so Delta Reign brings together the musical influences of each member...bluegrass, western

swing, blues & jazz...

Delta Reign is made up of the dynamic husband and wife duo of Pat Murphy and Benita Murphy from Mobile, AL, with George Mason and Joshua Faul completing the group.

Pat is a hard-driving and innovative banjo player who assists in the music arrangement. Benita is a singer/songwriter and arranges most of the group's music. She plays a strong rhythm guitar while occasionally adding the rousing swing rhythm that the band is well-known for. Dazzling fans with his fiddle, George is from Gulfport, MS and has an impressive musical resume which is full of exceptional experience that helps set Delta Reign apart. His tenor vocals enhance the group as well. Also from Gulfport, MS, Joshua is the newest member of the band. Originally an electric bass player, he happened upon the upright

bass while filling in with the band for a performance.

There are places in the US where folks are plenty aware of bluegrass, but where some other regional culture holds sway. Such a spot is the US Gulf Coast, from Corpus Christi, TX to Tampa, FL, where tourism and the beach scene dictate the culture of the cities, and fishing and agriculture hold sway in rural and waterfront areas…… Delta Reign flies pretty close to the bluegrass brand, but with distinct elements of swing and folk music in the mix. Read More Bluegrass Today.com

Watch Delta Reign’s Dugger Mountain Music Hall 2014 (Full show) >> YouTube

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