Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart – Time For A BBU! Inspire: Verb; to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence. Origin 1300-50; Middle English inspiren < Latin inspirare to breathe upon or into. (Dictionary.com) There are those out there, within the music industry, that although whispered about seldom attract the headlines or accolades from the […]
Tim McGraw – Damn Country Music McGraw’s latest album seems to have found universal appeal with fans and critics alike garnering widespread praise for the strength of the songs and claims it re-introduces the singer’s love for stone-cold country classics. “When I recorded the track Damn Country Music, it was one of those electric moments,” […]
Vince Gill – Down To His Last Bad Habit For his 18th studio album, it would have been easy for Vince Gill to kick back a bit. After all, when you’ve sold more than 26 million albums, won 20 Grammys, and earned 18 CMA Awards (including two Entertainer of the Year trophies), you’ve pretty much […]
This year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival was all about Melbourne. I met nary a festival-going soul who was not quick to volunteer a few mellifluous words of praise for the Victorian capital’s vibrant country scene, and it seemed that my every step under the blazing Peel Valley sun drew me, inexorably, toward Lachlan Bryan-curated Melbourne […]
I pen my column for this issue at a sticky bench-top amid the dingy surrounds of Melbourne’s infamous Tote Hotel. It’s an iconic music venue – known mostly as a home to rock, metal and punk music – but it hit the national spotlight back in 2010 when the prospect of it’s closure (due to […]
Tamworth 2016 A brief two day visit to the 2016 Tamworth Country Music Festival in January following a five year absence allowed me a fresh perspective on the community I’d been a part of for so long. It had formerly been twenty six years straight that I hadn’t missed a single one. I’d shared every […]
Conditions have been ideal for a great Summer of bluegrass. We have had some magnificent international guests pay us a visit and our local bands are making bigger waves than ever. In this issue we want to discuss how two major shifts in the music industry have become a positive, propulsive force in the growth […]
The Eagle & The Wolf Two of the country’s finest songwriters, Sarah Humphreys and Kris Morris met and decided to make a life and music together. There’s nothing fancy or fake here, just open hearts, superior songs and the truth. And they can both play. In 2014 both Humphreys and Morris released solo records produced […]
Greetings! I am sure everyone is anticipating the Christmas holidays and having some wind-down time. Another hectic year is almost over and it’s time to enjoy the breakup parties and get Santa-fit with tinsel overload and wall to wall wine, song, family, festive food and frivolity. It is our pleasure to welcome two new […]
Harvey’s Backyard Bar – For The Sheer Love Of Music By Luke O’Shea The music industry can be compared to a rickety old roller coaster ride which, along with the expected ups and downs, can occasionally get stuck, lose a few passengers along the way or at times simply come unstuck, fly off track and […]
Thunder Into Town By Gareth Hipwell The so-called ‘supergroup’ has a long and illustrious history in country music: from the famed “Million Dollar Quartet” of 1956 – comprising Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins – to Hardworking Americans featuring Todd Snider and Duane Trucks (Tedeschi Trucks Band). And, towering over them all […]
Storyteller – Carrie’s Story Continued By Denise Torenbeek Ten years ago, on Oct. 18, 2005, Carrie Underwood‘s life was about to change dramatically, with the release of her debut single ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’ from Some Hearts album after she had been crowned the Season 4 winner of American Idol. Carrie has emerged from the […]
