**** I need to update the EVENTS page, so will all the
"contact" people email me with the dates for their events please. ****

Keith Has Been Busy Writing Again.

''A Fair Go''
''And promises''
Keith Jamieson June 2008

The old folk are struggling
No one gives a damm
They fought and they worked
And they're proud of this land
They built us our roads
Through the scrub and the sand
They're our pioneer people
With a true Aussie brand

They fought for Australia
So we could be free
Now I can't believe mate
The things that I see
Like a song from old Coster
'Bout an old Gidgee tree
The old folk are suffering
In vast poverty.

Chorus
So come on Australia let’s give them a hand
With a true Aussie spirit that’s part of our land
Let the people in power hang their heads in shame
For a fair go and promises that never came

 They say that the pension
Is an old persons dream
But the people in power
Should start to come clean
Old folk paid their taxes
And worked all those years
In helping Australia
Through different careers

They say that our old folk
Get an adequate pay
To make all commitments
Buy tucker each day
Now the people in power
Would never survive
On an old persons pension
For a week if they tried

Chorus

So come on Australia let’s give them a hand
With a true Aussie spirit that’s part of our land
Let the people in power hang their heads in shame
For a fair go and promises that never came

bl27406@bigpond.net.au
0427 721 088
http://www.joysmusicworld.com/Artists/KeithJamieson.html

Keith tells me he had a lot of response to his Truck Song he had in a couple of weeks ago.

Congratulations

Congrats go to Peter Pratt and Tracy Killeen for their finals berths in the Mildura Country Music Awards.

The Valley Studio is proud of the tremendous efforts both Peter and Tracy have made over the past year. As independent artists they have worked hard to achieve this nomination and we wish them both the best of luck.

Peter Pratt is nominated for Australian Independent Heritage Track Of The Year - Traditional and Tracy Killeen in Australian Independent Female Vocalist Of The Year.

Amanda O'Bryan
Door2Door

Ross Allen - Hillcrest CD

Hillcrest Compilation album #43 has landed on my desk again. As we have come to expect, some great tracks on there.

My personal favourites in no particular order are “Arly Karlsen – You’re Still There” “Leigh Moneghetti – Cry Cry Cry” “Clelia Adams – If I Could Only Win Your Love” “Jesse Back – No More Tears On My Pillow” “Mel Sommers – Back With Your Memory Tonight”

Hillcrest 44 is already booked but it won't be released to radio till the last week of September.  There are some great new songs and singers on it. 

Hillcrest is the premier radio marketing service for recording artists, record labels, studios and producers who are serious about having their music heard and promoted to over 600 radio stations and trades in
26 countries around the world.
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Each CD contains an average of 14 top-notch "pre-screened" radio friendly songs from a variety of country and acoustic based music genres.
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All agree - a promotional "radio single" is the best way to promote a new album or single. It is convenient, cost efficient and reliable.

Over and above our service to country radio, we service many Key Industry people who are receptive to working with both independent and signed artists.

Our Service Includes These Benefits
1. Worldwide access to over 600 Radio Stations and Trades in 26 countries.
2. Unedited airplay reports, charts and playlists.
3. Your full contact information printed on our CD insert sleeve.
4. Five (5) copies of the CD for your own promotional use.
5. Follow-up support.

New artists looking to come on board are welcome to contact Hillcrest CD.

Thanks Ross – keep up the great work and keep ‘em coming

Spotlight On Heather Myles

Heather Myles (born 1963) is a country singer. Her honky tonk singing is in the Bakersfield sound-style and has been likened by many to that of Dwight Yoakam. She has had her songs featured in a major feature film and has performed with some of the country greats. Building a dedicated following of fans in the US and Europe, Heather seems to have succeeded in spite of disdain from Nashville and the major record labels. "You Will Love Me One Day" features on the film Transamerica

She was born in Riverside, California, where her parents bred and trained horses for racing.

Myles has released five albums as of May 2007 - including two on HighTone Records, and two on Rounder. While not a Top-40 country star in the contemporary Nashville mode, she has had considerable influence on the larger country-western music sphere due to her stubborn adherence to traditional country music. Through near-constant touring in the 1990s and early 2000s, she has built up a small but loyal following that appreciates her throw-back style and refusal to compromise her vision of what country music should be.

As with most critically acclaimed country music, Heather Myles' songs are rarely heard on mainstream country radio. These days, when a magnifying glass is almost mandatory for anyone trying to find the smallest speck of country music anywhere on a CD that ought to account for something. Fortunately, that problem never arises with Heather's "Sweet Talk and Good Lies." Her straightforward country roots hit you square between the eyes from the first to the last track.

Not since the glory days of country, when Loretta and Tammy could easily be found on the airwaves, has there been a finer example of a female country singing artist. Heather twangs, rocks and croons in all the right places. There's no saccharine sweet, overly glossed sentiments here.

Sweet Talk and Good Lies follows up Heather's 1998 hardcore country release "Highways and Honky Tonks." With the refreshing candor of Loretta, the understated class of Tammy Wynette and the voice of a hillbilly angel, Heather Myles gets straight to the nuts and bolts of what a good country song should be. Real life. If you're listening Nashville: demographically speaking, there are more than a few of the female species that are tired of "perfect love songs." Penning all but two of thirteen tunes on the album, Heather repeatedly demonstrates she's in touch with what country music fans have been longing for.

Lonnie Ratliff

Hi to all our DJ friends,

We sure would like to thank you so much for playing Hermann's songs in your shows.
For the special Hermann Lammers Meyer wonderful swingy version of the Beatle's "WHAT GOES ON".... please keep it on air.... danke schön, Anke (Desert Kid Records)
Find it on a www.hillcrestcd.com sampler cd .....or on Hermann`s CD "1961-A Love Song".

Hermann

Lee Forster Tour Going Well

Just wanted to say Hello and let you know what we have been up to out here on the Track!

I am excited to say that my latest single “The Good Tones” has shot to Number 6 on the Top 30 Country Charts. There is a lot of great songs out at the moment and I feel honoured to have one in the top ten. It is a great fun radio song and features the Singing Truckie “Travis Sinclair”. Huge thanks to all the radio stations, who have been playing “the Good Tones”. Also thanks to the many I have done interviews with. I am

looking forward to the interviews I have coming up. It’s an honor to sing this song with Travis and I can’t wait to see it go higher up the chart. If you'd like to have a yack on air about “the Good Tones” or my latest album “Keep Safe on the Track”, email me lee@leeforster.com.au or get in touch with Kaz 0418 614 359 or karen@redrebelmusic.com

My previous single “1,000 Headlights” has been chosen as a track on the latest Bundy Country Compilation. This album sells everywhere. I have seen it in every roadhouse I have been in to over the past month. I feel very chuffed to be on this album with some of the hottest country acts from around the world. Grab yaself a copy.

Our Country Rock tour has been going awesomely. We are about half way now and are in the Pilbara region of WA. The tour has just clicked over 10,000ks from when we started back in Victoria. The Ford Territory which is 15 months old has just clicked over 140,000ks. The most we have paid for petrol was $2.17 per litre. And the city people complain about fuel prices. Hehe

However, it has been awesome to see some of this great country of ours. We have performed at Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, The beautiful Elquestro Station, home of the famous pink diamonds, Argyle Diamond Mine site, the Darwin BNS Ball, the Kimberley Diamond mine site, Derby, Daley Waters Pub, Kakadu and the Kununurra Rodeo. There have been many highlights. One of the biggest thrills was singing the National Anthem to help open the Royal Darwin Show. With Wayne Campbell cracking out the tune on his whips and just my acoustic guitar and me, it was an awesome feeling to perform our Country’s Anthem in front of the Mayor of Darwin and around 3,000 people. Everyone everywhere has been so friendly and it’s a great feeling when they ask you to come back
again. We still have about 4 weeks to go with shows in Perth, Newman, Leonora, Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie and the Newdegate field Days.

Also during this busy tour schedule, the band and I will be flying from Western Australia to QLD to perform at the Gympie Muster for the first time. I can’t wait for that. We are playing in the Tavern and Crowbar venues. Being my first time I will be getting into it boots n all. Bring on the music, rain and dust. It will be awesome.

Lastly our new merchandise from www.allthingscountry.com.au has been selling well. We have polo shirts, bluey and pinky singlets, stubby coolers and key rings. Don’t Forget my Album “Keep Safe on the Track”. You can get this from most cd shops around Australia. If they don’t have it they can order it from One Stop Country.

It has been awesome to meet so many new friends and catch up with the old ones. I look forward to seeing you on the track somewhere soon.

Keep Safe on The Track,
Lee

Telstra Road To Tamworth Builds Bridge Between
Australia & New Zealand

In another major step forward for Australia’s most prestigious talent search, the Telstra Road to Tamworth has established an exciting new exchange program with the New Zealand National Country Music Awards, presented by the Kiwi Pro-Am Country Music Organisation.

The exchange program gives young developing artists from both countries the opportunity to perform in front of the professional music industry in both lands. The Telstra Road to Tamworth Grand Final Winner will perform each year at the New Zealand National Country

Music Awards, in front of an audience that includes the cream of the New Zealand country music industry.

The winner of the Horizon Award (for Best New Talent) will have the opportunity to perform the following year at one of the Telstra Road to Tamworth Concert Events, staged throughout the year across Australia.

The inaugural year has seen 2008 Telstra Road to Tamworth Grand Final Winner, Jasmine Rae (pictured left), deliver a fantastic performance at the 2008 NZ National Country Music Awards last Saturday August 16th, where she received great acclaim from NZ industry heavyweights.

2007 NZ Horizon Award Winner, Aaron Jury, will perform at the one-day Country Music Festival being staged by the Telstra Road to Tamworth at Melrose Showground in South Australia, on October 18th this year.

2008 NZ Horizon Award Winner, Ashley Cooper (pictured right), will perform at a TRTT event, staged across Australia throughout the year.

For more information on the Melrose Showground event, go to beinvolved.telstra.com/countrymusic

For more information on the Kiwi Pro Am Country Music Organisation, go to www.kiwiproamcountrymusic.co.nz

Kerry Roberts

Amber Lawrence Scores Gold
They say everything happens in three’s

Having already a bumper year, female country artist Amber Lawrence has hit the #1 position for two consecutive weeks on the Country Radio Charts after the #1 position on the CMC Video Chart with her third single “Good Girls” taken from the acclaimed Top 5 album “The Mile”.

This follows up the success of her first two singles “Things That Bring Me Down” and “Gonna Fly” both also reaching inside the Top 5 position.

For the second year running Amber has been nominated in not one but three categories for the Southern Star Australian Independent Country Music Awards.

APRA/AMCOS Australian Independent Country Music Single of the Year – “Gonna Fly”

One Stop Entertainment Australian Independent Album of the year – “The Mile”

Australian Independent Female Vocalist of the Year – “Amber Lawrence”

In 2007 Amber received the Award for Australian Independent Female Vocalist of the Year.

Such is the commitment of Amber and her record label Destra a 4th single will be released in October, the album title “The Mile”, a heart rending story of a father’s loss of his jockey son on the track.

For a debut artist Amber has achieved great heights and her star continues to shine, this is only just the beginning.

Always hard at work, Amber continues to perform with her band around the country in addition to Chic Frontier and some openers with The McClymonts.

To see where you can see Amber check out the tours page:

Domenica La Macchia

New Duet From T Jae & Rick

You can get the new duet now: "Just Like Mine" By: Rick Sharp & T. Jae Christian.
You can listen and download for airplay. Just copy & paste the link below and your ready to go!

As always, we thank and appreciate you so much!!

www.airplaydirect.com/music/bands/14438/index.php

TJ & Rick

T. Jae Christian's 'Video" Of:
"This Is Where Jesus Would Go"

Has been voted to the top five!!  We're very honoured to be in the great company of all these great artist!
Top 5 Category Nominees Announced For The 14th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards To Be Held On Thursday, October 16, 2008
At Trinity Music City USA

Jetty Road Are Back

Jetty Road are back from a successful tour to Nashville and Canada with all guns blazing!

After almost two months in North America, we played many shows, met some amazing people and had the time of our lives doing it! Some of the people we met during our travels included Trace Atkins, Lonestar, Emerson Drive (pictured below), Keith Anderson, Jessie Farrell and Whiskey Falls.

From playing on Breakfast TV in Canada, to singing the national anthem at the baseball, and hanging out with the boys from Lonestar, it was definitively a trip we will never forget!

One of the biggest highlights of the trip was our Main Stage performance at Dauphin Countryfest. We had an absolute ball and felt very honored to be representing Australia; it turned out to be an amazing experience with the reaction to our show overwhelmingly positive.

And the biggest laugh? The amount of people who loved our 'sophisticated' Aussie accents?!!

2008 Southern Stars
Australian Independent Country Music Awards

Since returning to Australia, we have been notified of our finalist berth in the 2008 Southern Stars - Australian Independent Country Music Awards for Best Group / Duo. This is our first nomination in these awards and we are honored to be amongst the great company of fellow finalists Carter & Carter, Stuie and Camille and Jonahs Road.

Good Times

Not only was this Alan Jackson song the theme song of our Nth American trip (with major airplay right across the continent) but it is also the name of our new single, to be released to radio in October from our new upcoming album.

We all agree, there must have been something in the water recently because with Alan Jackson’s ‘Good Time’, Lee Forster and Travis Sinclair’s ‘Good Tones’ and Amber Lawrence’s hit ‘Good Girls’ all being released around the same time, there’s no other way to explain it!

‘Good Times’ will be the first single from our new album ‘Life at a Million Miles’ to be released in early 2009.
*For more information and photos, please let us know and you’ll be emailed a copy of the full newsletter.

Cheers
Paula, Lee, Jules and Simon
Jetty Road

Millmerran Showgrounds -
Sunday the 10th of August

Was an awareness day, where speeches, involving prominent members of the local community along with the federal member for Agriculture (Tony Burke) - the local Mayor and patron of the Aussie

Helpers Charity Lee Kernaghan , were given.

There was a concert which Lee kernaghan (Australian of the Year) headlined and his management asked Anthony Classen to be the support act along with Graham Rodgers and other fellow country music artists.

"We were thrilled to be asked, as it was a great opportunity to sit and talk with Lee as well as performing for a worthy cause" said Anthony.  Proceeds of album sales on the day went toward the Aussie Helpers Charity.

It also provided Anthony with a great opportunity to officially release his 3rd single from his album (Wound Up Here produced by Stuie French), The Victorian / National Music award nominated heritage song   Take A Chance which is loosely based on the great Henry Lawson poem  Taking His Chance.

All this just 10 days out from the largest outdoor music festival in Australia The Gympie Muster where Anthony and his band will be performing.

Major Move Qld

Anthony Classen

3rd single from the album "Wound Up Here"
Take A Chance NFS 124 Track 15 nominated in the Victorian/National Country Music Awards - Heritage Song TIARA nomination best Male vocal
An interpretation of the Henry Lawson poem Taking His Chance

Gary Turner

New Single for 'The Pokers'

"You meet all types. We bumped into a guy who is a drover in Qld. He really is a country kinda guy. He is this song. He works hard, drinks hard, plays hard. Walks with a bit of a limp mind."

Aussie rockers Cowpoke have released to radio a new single 'Country Kinda Guy' (NFS 124 track 13) from their award nominated second album 'Big Red Ute.' With contributions from Mick Manley (Steve Forde & The Flange) and Shane Pacey (Bondi Cigars), the song is an infectious anthem dedicated to men and women of the land;

"Tell it to me straight, look me in the eye - cause I'm a country kinda guy. I wear my hat low, but my head's held high."

The new single is timed to coincide with a rare live appearance by the band at the 2008 Deni Ute Muster.

'Country Kinda Guy' Competition

To celebrate the release of their new single of the same name Cowpoke have have announced their Country Kinda Guy Competition.

To win one of 20 signed cd's, fans should email a picture of themselves with their car / ute / vehicle to info@cowpoke.com.au.

Entries will be displayed (along with competition details) on the band's website at www.cowpoke.com.au.

Radio stations may request a personalised station ID from the band promoting the station and competition.

Entries close October 10, 2008 with winners announced soon after.

Powerpoint Music

Greenwich Park Jamboree
13th September 2008

Annual Fundraiser for Big Hill Rural Fire Service…
they will be cooking good food throughout the weekend at reasonable prices.
Goulburn Country Music Association will be cooking breakfast. Good Bush Tucker throughout the weekend. Entertainment from:
Patti McKinnon, Midnight Riders, Jamie Agius, Outlaw Ian Miller, Bobby Silk, Triston Severs,
Celtic Crossroads, Dusty Field and The Battlers

Walk Up Artist Concert 10AM - 6PM $5.00 Under 16 free
Huge Woolshed Dance 7.00PM - ??????? $20 under 16 free
BYO drinks, nibbles, jokes & smiles
Bookings essential for Dance… Call Patti: 0248298335 0432253057
“Free Camping”or "Swag In Shed"'

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