2016-03-05
Artists
appearing at next weekend's country2country festival
Brand new music
from Lorrie Morgan and Martina McBride. Classics from Bob Wills and Townes Van
Zandt.
Rita Wilson - Along For The Ride | Album: Rita
Wilson (Deluxe) (11 March 2016) Sing It Loud New Amazon UK - UK iTunes
Bob Wills – Take Me Back To Tulsa (March 6, 1905;
died May 13, 1975 aged 70) BIRTHDATE
Alice Wallace – Grateful | Album: Memories Music
& Pride (Oct 2015) Amazon UK | UK iTunes | Amazon.com
Skip Ewing – I Wish I Was Somebody Else (March 6,
1964) BIRTHDAY
Sasha McVeigh – When I’m Over You New Single
Townes Van Zandt – Loretta (March 7, 1944; died Jan 1,
1997 aged 52) BIRTHDATE
Lorrie Morgan - What I’d Say |
Album: Letting Go... Slow New Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Cooper & Davies – I Never Said I was Funny
Callaghan – Noah’s Song | Album: A History of Now CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
TG Sheppard & Mickey Gilley
- Wine to remember, Whiskey To Forget (Mickey Gilley; March 9, 1936) BIRTHDAY
Brenda Best - Gun & Bible New Single
Frank Solivan – I Am A Rambler | Album: Family, Friends &
Heroes New Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Dori Freeman – Where I Stood | Album: Dori Freeman Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com - Artist Store
Martina McBride – Reckless New Single
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Kris
Kristofferson – Gold
Watch and Chain (Jimmy Fadden March 9, 1948) BIRTHDAY
*** TRIBUTE ***
Joey Martin – That’s Important To Me
Joey Martin – See You There
Joey & Rory – Jesus Loves Me
Joey & Rory – When I’m Gone
Frankie Ballard – Young & Crazy
Carrie Underwood – Chaser
Daryle Singletary – The Note
Tanya Tucker & Flaco Jimenez – Is Anybody Going To San Antone
TG Sheppard, Jimmy Fortune & BJ
Thomas – 100% Chance Of
Pain (Jimmy Fortune March 11, 1955) BIRTHDAY
Kellie Pickler – Mother’s Day
New on The Show
Alice Wallace
“Grateful” - "I
think it's absolutely excellent...every track a winner, a wonderful artist"
- Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Has become a shining light on the Los Angeles Americana music scene, sharing her songs of travel, adventure, life, love and loss in her authentic voice…as beautiful as the land she travels,” say the folks at California Country Records.
She was nominated and won a LA Music Critic Award (Best
Country/Americana and Best CD - Female) for her album "Memories, Music
& Pride" lamusiccritic.com
"She's stunning, and McQueen 'The Cincinnati Kid' cool" - Ray
Wylie Hubbard
The crowd-funded MEMORIES, MUSIC & PRIDE (Pledge Music.com), the third
album by Alice Wallace, found the Southern California-based Americana
singer-songwriter exploring fresh musical terrain on striking self-penned
material inspired by new emotional and geographical compass points. Released Oct 9, 2015 by California Country Records
(Amazon UK | UK iTunes | Amazon.com)
Alice explored fresh musical terrain on striking self-penned material inspired
by new emotional and geographical compass points.
It was co-produced by Kirsten Proffit, of the attention-getting L.A. Americana trio CALICO the band, and Steve Berns, who also helmed Calico's 2014 debut release Rancho California.
It was co-produced by Kirsten Proffit, of the attention-getting L.A. Americana trio CALICO the band, and Steve Berns, who also helmed Calico's 2014 debut release Rancho California.
Wallace, whose powerful, elastic singing and melodic, literate
song-crafting skill have helped her garner nominations as best Country/Americana
artist and best live band from the Orange County Music Awards, views Memories,
Music & Pride as a significant step forward – one that bears a more
integrated yet all-embracing sound. “This record is more cohesive, as far as
style is concerned,” she said. “I
like blues, I like folk, I like country. This one still touches on all of
those. But with this album I feel like I was trying to bridge the gap between
my influences in old-time country with newer artists like Sturgill Simpson and
Jason Isbell, whose albums have opened my eyes to what modern country can be.”
The album’s lone non-original is a cover of “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s
Sweetheart,” a 1935 hit by Patsy Montana, the first major female country and
western solo singing star. Wallace – who took up yodelling after hearing Jewel
essaying the old country singing style on her early records -- reached back to
the style of such earlier yodelling recording artists as Montana, Jimmie
Rodgers, and Slim Whitman for her interpretation of the tune - See more at: alicewallacemusic.com
The 11-track collection – Wallace’s first release on Los Angeles-based
California Country Records – succeeds two widely praised independent releases,
Sweet Madness (2011) and A Thousand Miles From Home (2013).
CONNECT with Alice Wallace:
Cooper & Davies
Originating in Shropshire, Cooper and Davies (Rob Cooper and Si Davies)
combined as a duo after some years of solo and band work. Drawn together by a
desire to play rootsy Americana, they developed their own style and sound which
draws on the traditions of country, blues, bluegrass et al.
Cooper & Davies are. The duo was drawn together by their love of
rootsy, gritty, bare bones Americana.
On Aug 3, 2013 they released their 6 track EP Indie & Alternative;
THE COACH HOUSE SESSIONS (Amazon
UK), which apparently was a big hit on local radio. Their song
“Seventeen”, from the EP, was BBC Radio Shropshire’s Song of the Month in April
2014 and continued to get plenty of regular airplay. Both multi
instrumentalists, the duo incorporates grooving guitars, laid back bass,
wailing harmonica and blistering banjo all held together with a rock steady
back beat.
“A very exciting opportunity for
us Bridgnorthians to play at a prestigious event in the capital city! What a
privilege to play on the same bill as Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town and The
Shires!” they shared on Facebook.
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