2015-07-25
Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire Show playlist July 25, 2015
Brand new music
from Alan Jackson, Ashley Monroe, Della Mae and Don Henley.
Classics from
Bobby Gentry and Trisha Yearwood and tributes to Wayne Carson and Daron Norwood
who died.
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| Underhill Rose |
Ronnie Dunn - Ain’t No Trucks In Texas (single) NEW Single
Underhill Rose - Rest Easy | Album: Great Tomorrow CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Richard Lynch - A Better Place | Album: A Better
Place MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Laura Bell Bundy - Let's Pretend We're Married | Album: Another
Piece Of Me MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Paddy O'Brien - Forgiving You Was Easy | Album: One of These Days (2015) CD NEW
Della Mae - For The Sake Of My Heart | Album: Della
Mae CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Claire Lynch - Thibodaux (Moonlighter) CD
Trisha Yearwood - The Song Remembers When CD
Wayne Carson - That's All I've Got To Say >> YouTube # Tribute (died July 20, 2015; aged
72.) SEE Tribute BLOG originally
recorded by Homer & Jethro on their album "Old Hippies" YouTube
Randy Travis - Horse Called Music You and You Alone
(1998) CD #
The SteelDrivers - Hangin' Around | Album: The Muscle Shoals Recordings MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Stacy Dean Campbell - Poor Man's Rose | Album: Lonesome Wins Again (July 1992) CD (July 27, 1967) BIRTHDAY
Gold Heart - Summertime | Album: Places I've Been NEW CD - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Alan Jackson - The One You're Waiting On | Album: Angels and Alco, hol NEW CD - MP3 - Amazon.com
Don Henley - That Old Flame feat. Martina McBride |
Album: Cass Country (out Sept 25, 2015) UK iTunes (July 22, 1947) BIRTHDAY
Neil McCoy - Shotgun Rider | Album: Xii CD (July 30, 1958)
BIRTHDAY
Ashley Monroe - If The Devil Don't Want Me | Album: The Blade (Warner Bros. Records) CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Daron Norwood with Travis
Tritt - Phantom Of The
Opry | Album: Daron Norwood MP3 (died
July 22, 2015 (aged 49) SEE: Tribute BLOG
Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind MP3
New on The Show
Ash
Breeze
“Flowers” - Another great young family
band..this is a sad song but a good one..the kind of track that stops me in my
tracks, I thought that was beautiful summing up someone’s life in five minutes
- Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Americana/
Bluegrass / Acoustic
Home
Town: North Carolina
Band
Members
Nellie
Grace Smith - Lead Vocals (Fiddle) , Corey Smith (Harmony Vocals / Guitar),
Luke Smith (Banjo), Eli Smith (Harmony Vocals / Mandolin), Aaron Ramsey (Bass)
Ash Breeze are an up and coming band from.
Fayetteville,North Carolina.
In
2013 they were signed by Mark Hodges at Mountain Fever Label.
They
performed on PBS's nationally syndicated Song of the Mountains in February at
the Historic Lincoln Theatre in Marion Va., Bluegrass and Barbeque at Silver
Dollar City in Branson MO and Dollywood in TN, South Carolina, Houstonfest in
Galax VA, and Bluegrass Festivals in Vermont, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island Canada, as well as other great venues.
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| Ash Breeze (2013) |
In
2014 they performed in Branson and Dollywood again and were also selected as
one of 10 Youth Showcase bands out of 49 applicants Internationally at the
International Bluegrass Music Association Convention in Raleigh, NC.
In
2015 IBMA selected us as a Showcase Band
to perform all week as part of Bluegrass Ramble at the Convention in September.
2015
found them back in Fayetteville,NC after living for years running a grassfed
beef cattle ranch in the country on the Deep River in Moore County, NC. They
left their pursuit of classical music and moved into bluegrass and other roots
influenced music
North
Carolina natives Ash Breeze (formerly known as The Smith Family) released their
self-titled debut album on Mountain Fever Records. The first single from the
album, "Without Love" released to radio in November 2014.
Classically
trained until they switched to bluegrass in 2010, the tight knit family group
and versed musicians consists of father Allen on bass, daughter and powerhouse
singer Nellie on fiddle, and three sons, Corey on guitar and vocals (also
Producer of Generation Bluegrass documentaries, a video bluegrass project that
is drawing a great deal of attention), Luke with his steady and polished style
on banjo and Cajon, and Eli on vocals and mandolin, offering up a speed and
finesse that belies his years. The band’s sound is distinctive, fresh, creative
and mature.
The
name ash breeze has great meaning to
the family and is an old sailing term referring to the ability to row the
rowboat yourself when there isn’t enough breeze to fill the sails (during a
time when oars were made of ash wood). Sailing by ash breeze is a major theme
in the book “Carry On Mr Bowditch,” a family favorite and the source of
inspiration for the band’s name change.
Daughter
Nellie is gaining a name for her distinctive and soulful singing style along
with her smooth, melodic, and award winning fiddle playing that has been
greatly influenced by greats like Stuart Duncan and Andy Leftwich.
They
released a debut, self-titled album as Ash Breeze in February 2014 which showed
tremendous promise with all the members still in their teens, save dad (Allen)
who plays bass with the band on stage.
2015
saw them heading back into the studio working with Mark Hodges of Mountain
Fever Records, but on his new label, Travianna Records.
Their
latest project, The Road’s Not Easy, delivers on that promise and demonstrates
an uncanny knack for the subtleties of our music.
Nellie
Grace, now nearly 18 years old, has matured into a delightful and very capable
vocalist – and a fine songwriter to boot. Her I Brought You Flowers is a lovely
song, structured like a pop country number, with a sweet sentiment and a real
tearjerker of a final verse. She also lays down a sparkling version of Pins
& Needles, another swing-grass track with strong contributions from
brothers Eli (14) on mandolin and Luke (15) on banjo. Crystal Gayle’s 1978 hit Ready For The Times To Get Better gets a
fine reading as well, done in an uptempo bluegrass manner....One thing is
certain, though. And that’s that Nellie Grace Smith is the real deal, and so
are her brothers in Ash Breeze. They and Travianna Records have every reason to
be proud of The Road’s Not Easy, (Album Review: Bluegrass Today.com )
Their
CD release Party was set for Sunday, July 26th at 7 pm at The Cape Fear
Regional Theatre in Fayetteville.
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Breeze:
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