2015-08-29
Teea Goans - Stranger Things Have
Happened | Album: Memories To Burn MP3 -
UK iTunes - Amazon.com
(Aug 23) BIRTHDAY
The Waifs - Black Dirt Track | Album: Beautiful You New MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com - Compass
Records
Don Henley & Dolly
Parton -
When I Stop Dreaming |
Album: Cass Country (out Sept 25, 2015) UK iTunes New
Single
Legends of Country - Talk About Country | Album: Talk About Country CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Bandcamp (Jof Owen; August 28) BIRTHDAY
Kitty Wells & Red Foley - As Long As I Live | Album: Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy -
Red Foley MP3 (Kitty Wells; Aug 30, 1919; died July 16, 2012 (aged 92)) BIRTHDATE
Amanda Watkins & Jamey
Johnson -
If I Was Over You | Album: New Single (released April 23, 2015) MP3 – Amazon.com
Boxcar Willie - Divorce Me C.O.D | Album: Boxcar Willie, the Very Best Of
MP3 / Coming Soon: Truckers,
Kickers, Cowboy Angels Volume 5, 6, 7 boxset (Bear Family Records)
Dianna Corcoran - God Did Good New Single
Conway Twitty - She Needs Someone To Hold
Her When She Cries | Album:
Conway Twitty at His Best MP3 (Sept 1, 1933
died June 5, 1993 (aged 59) BIRTHDATE
Rebecca Hosking - No Reason | Album: A Few Broken Pieces CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com Hotdisc #200 August Single
Hank Thompson - Hangover Tavern | Album: (Sept
1, 1931; died April 12, 1999 (aged 67) BIRTHDATE
New on The Show
Legends of Country
“Talk
About Country” – “Really
nice feel to it , for fans of Johnny Cash, that to me sounds
like a good conversation and Tanya Tucker got a mention as well..lovely little
album” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Home
Town: Muswell Hill
Legends
Of Country are an English Alt-country band formed by Jof Owen from indiepop
group The Boy Least Likely To with longtime friends Adam Chetwood and Rob
Jones. Inspired by a long standing love of country music and memories of
growing up watching Pebble Mill and listening to Johnny Cash and George
Hamilton IV, their songs combine a classic old country sound with an honest and
unmistakeable English indiepop charm.
TALK ABOUT COUNTRY is the debut album from Legends Of Country, an English
Alt-country band formed by Jof Owen
from The Boy Least Likely To with Adam
Chetwood and Rob Jones. Inspired
by a long standing love of country music and memories of growing up watching
Pebble Mill and listening to Johnny Cash and George Hamilton IV, their songs
combine a classic old country sound with an honest and unmistakeable English
indiepop charm. Heartfelt and uplifting with a truckload of chicken pickin' and
country swagger thrown in.
The
ironically understated and reflective lyrics take on the absurdities of modern
life and middle age, the depressing reality of ageing and the frustrating
responsibilities of adulthood. Colloquial and quintessentially English - full
of references to A roads and seaside towns, little chefs and Benson and Hedges
- it's an album about small town success and the failure that sometimes
follows, about finding love late in life and looking back on what might have
been.
The
album was produced and mixed by Rob Jones (Sweet Baboo, The School, Rozi Plain)
and includes the singles Talk About Country, It's A Long Way Back From A Dream
and Jelly And Jam. With Duane Eddy style guitar, pedal steel and mariachi
trumpets blasting away, the title track is a role call of "country"
icons from Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings and Loretta Lynn to darts player Jocky
Wilson and the beat writer Carolyn Cassady. It features Liz from The School on
vocals. From the playful Tex-Mex of As Country As They Come to the zydeco
infused shuffle of If I Knew What I Was Doing I'd Be Dangerous, the album
passionately embraces a host of country styles peppering them with a hint of
jangly C86 derived indiepop. The stark Americana of The Saturday Dads is a
poignant reflection on absent fathers and rainy afternoons in the park.
Aside
from the tongue-in-cheek band name, the only real hint of irony here derives
from the fact that one of the most exciting country records of the year has
come out of North London, not Nashville.
They
played the Maverick Festival 2015 at
Easton Farm Park in Suffolk.
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Their
track "Talk About Country" is included on the Sept/Oct Maverick
Magazine FREE sampler CD Vol 17 Issue 134.
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“If I Was Over You” - Brand new name to me really like her voice..I like it because I’d call it stone-cold country, just as I like it….that’s my kind of country,....just great, really great music you can hear every word and they sing it like they mean it” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Home
Town: Huntington, WVA and Tampa Bay, FLA
Meet
Amanda Watkins; born in the wild and wonderful state of West Virginia, and
raised in sunny Florida.Amanda
is the quintessential “American Woman” who holds dear a deep-rooted love of
family:
“Singing, songwriting, cooking, eating amazing
food, fighting for this great country we live in, and an All American Woman is
who I am. I believe in working hard and playing hard” she shared.
When
she’s not writing songs or touring, you’ll find Amanda partaking of her other
passions - cooking and eating down home cuisine.
She
was drawn to music at an early age, and it’s been a major part of her life ever
since. From singing in church at the age of five, to standing on the hallowed
stage before a packed house in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Amanda has always
delivered powerful performances with her strong voice and gifted melodies and
lyrics. One of the proudest moments of her young career was when she became the
first unsigned artist to ever play network late night TV, and then share
co-write honors on a major Big & Rich single at country radio.
Performing
LIVE for audiences is Amanda’s first love. She’s been privileged to open for
major artists like Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson and Frankie
Ballard, and to perform at major music festivals like BamaJam and WEfest, as
well as earning the distinction by American Songwriter magazine as delivering
one of the top 5 best performances at Bonnaroo.
Amanda
has just finished recording a new full length album in Nashville’s historic RCA
Studio A that includes the single “If I Was Over You," featuring Jamey Johnson and co-written by her
with Rivers Rutherford. The new album and single is slated for release in 2015.
The single was sent to country radio on August 17, 2015 with an Impact date of
September 8, 2015.
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The pair captured the heartbreaking song in the studio — as a duet. The idea was all Johnson's, according to Watkins, who says the independent Alabama singer tinkered with her finished track after hours in the studio, adding his unmistakable baritone.
After receiving a late night text to come to RCA Studio A, where she recorded her upcoming debut album and where Johnson has his Nashville office, Watkins says she was surprised with the finished song. "Jamey said, 'I did some changes. I hope you are OK with them.' They took the band out of the first two verses, so it is just acoustic guitar. When Jamey came in, I realized he had made it a duet and I started crying," Watkins said in a statement.
Written
by Watkins and Rivers Rutherford, "If I Was Over You" begins with a
single guitar and Watkins' dusky voice, before Johnson comes in with a verse of
his own: " Read more: Rollingstone.com
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