April Birthdays

New Album For Reg Poole

For all the Reg Poole fans out there, he has a new album out now. It's mostly songs taken from the Selection Records recordings, but nice to have them all on one album. They are all Reg Poole originals recorded from 1976 to 2006

With 21 tracks on the album there is sure to be something to please everyone.

Track Listing

The name of the album is "Selection Collection" and dedicated to Eric Watson of Selection Records. Keep you eye out for this mostly Rodeo album as i'm sure we'll hear more about it real soon.

Joy

Hello From Clelia

A big Aussie g'day to my dear country music friends all over the world,

Thank you all so much for the overwhelming radio airplay support you give to me and my music.   

My new radio single on Hillcrest 53 is Hank's "Honky Tonk Blues", featuring Bill Chambers on lap steel and my brother Albert Calvo on guitar. It is already receiving massive global airplay, thanks to you all.

ews on my current Aussie single "Honky Tonk Stardust Cowboy", which topped the ECMA chart at #2 late last year, and still on the charts there, is now going great guns on the Australian CM charts.

This week # 6 on the Mildura 3Hot FM chart, and # 17 on the Countrytracks Top 30.

...my heartfelt thanks to radioland, keep honky tonkin', ciao for now,

Clelia

NT Country Songwriting Awards
Top Five Finalists 2010

Contemporary

1 Riverwood - Debbie Beckett
2 Headin' For The Mines - Ernie Constance.
3 The Tranquillity-Bec Hance
4. Heaven Knows Little Cowboys- Craig Morrison
5. Eighty Mile Beach Memorial - Terry Bennetts

Comedy/Novelty

1. Joe Blake - John Battle
2. Baby Boomers - Debbie Beckett
3. Jack The Dog - Bec Hance
4. Over Fishers Fence - Ernie Constance
5. Take The Time To Smell The Roses - Evan Platschinda

Bush Ballad

1.  Brother Dan - Ray Rose/Evan Platschinda
2.  The Dingo - Wave Jackson
3.  Milestones - Ernie Constance
4.  Where The Thomson River Flows - Pete Smith/Lana Ross
5.  Kelly's Eyes  - Dianne Lindsay

NT Country Songwriting Contest
Top Five Finalists 2010

Unreleased Professional

1. Restore My Faith  - Patricia Cruzado
2. Our Journey    - Yvonne Bradley
3. The Jungle Of Kokoda - John Seers/John Battle
4. It's Great To Be Australian - Stan Lenz
5. I Wish I Could Take It Back  - Yoris Wilson

Lyrics Only

1.Australia Land Of Beauty- John Seers
2.Our Journey- Yvonne Bradley
3 Cougar Bait - Joanne Weismann
4.The Old Brindle Bull- Lindy Lou
5.Charts And Graphic Arts - Peter Simpson.

Keith Jamieson

Jamie Davis – JD
From Kross Kut Records

Your’s truly was on the Gold Coast at the weekend, and I called in to visit Krss Kut Records. I’d promised Waddo a long time ago that I would do just that, … so promise finally fulfilled I was pleased I did, I was most impressed with the studio layout (built by our own “musical” builder Ken “Chainsaw” Lindsay) it was interesting for me to finally see what these two specialists came up with.

I’d heard a lot of and was impressed with, the albums that came out of there so it was good to see where they were coming from.

Not only did I finally get to see the studio, but I walked away with one of the latest productions from there & was again impressed with the quality of it too. This one is Jamie Davis.

Recorded & Produced at Kross Kut Records by Lindsay “Waddo” Waddington this is a great album of cover songs. Jamie does them all well & I had a very enjoyable time listening to it.

The Musicians on this recording are Lindsay “Waddo” Waddington, Charley Boyter, Kelvin Nolan, Grant Hart, Hugh Curtis, Russel Stork, Neil Butler, and Laurie Minson, …. Now with names like that you could hardly go wrong could you!

Track Listing

Keep it up Waddo, you deserve the accolades you are receiving. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke.

Joy

Adam Harvey & Beccy Cole Tour

Adam Harvey, Dennis "Doc" Costigan & Beccy Cole
at Port Panthers on Friday night

Adam & Beccy were happy with the response they received at Port Panthers (Port Macquarie) last Friday night. The large crowd loved them & were pleased to see them back in town again. They certainly put on a wonderful show & anybody who missed them on this tour really did miss out.

Your’s truly had a live interview lined up with Adam but he had a little hold up on the way so he was running a little late. Never mind he made it in time for a short interview and promises it will be longer next time.

Note that Adam will be doing a tour with Wendy Matthews in June, so keep your eye out for that one.

Joy

Adam Harvey Announces Tour With Wendy Matthews

7 times Golden Guitar winner Adam Harvey and 7 times Aria award winner Wendy Matthews team up for the first time on the 'Both Sides' 2010 tour.

Adam and Wendy met on the set of the hit television series "It Takes Two" in 2008 and have since recorded the single 'Easy' released through Sony Music on March 5. The video clip will be aired on CMC through March, April and May on high rotation and the single is already top 5 on the CMC Chart!

Adam's new album 'Both Sides Now' is his highest debut album to date charting nationally on the ARIA Charts at No. 19. The 1st single off the album 'King of the Road' with John Williamson went No. 1 on the CMC Chart, Single 2 'Stuck in the Middle' with Guy Sebastian also went No. 1. There will be a limited edition tour pack from March 12 to compliment the tour.

Road tested at the Tamworth Country Music Festival with Guy Sebastian, Gina Jeffreys and James Blundell, Wendy and Adam blew everyone away with their performance. This show was a sell out and a highlight of the Festival.

The 'Both Sides' tour will consist of Adam Harvey performing individually, as will Wendy Matthews, and then coming together on stage to perform duets from the album and some new ones as well. This show is a real mix of Australia's cream of country and pop teaming up for one brilliant show.

Tour Dates on Tours Page

Enquiry About Buster Noble
Can anyone help?

Hi Joy

Can you tell me if there is a LP or a CD of Buster Noble as I have a song that my sister had on a lp " Our Kinda Country " an I was wondering if there is such a CD of Buster Noble songs that he recorded, and would they still be avaliable now

yours Sincerely
 Joseph
texasjoe1@bigpond.com

Kris Katsanis Departs Compass Bros

Compass Bros Records publicist Kris Katsanis will depart the label effective tomorrow, Wednesday April 28th.

Kris joined Compass Bros in 2005 co-ordinating publicity for all CBR artists including Adam Brand, The Sunny Cowgirls and James Blundell.

"KK has been an integral member of the Compass Bros family for five years. She's made a significant contribution to the success of the label and will be sorely missed." says CB founder and managing director Graham Thompson.

"It's no news to anyone that CD sales have decreased significantly over the last few years and no secret that this ongoing trend continues to take its toll on the record industry, in particular independent labels.  The impact of this shrinking market is forcing Compass Bros to evolve from the traditional model of a record company that funds, produces, markets, promotes and distributes music to one that assists artists to market and distribute recordings funded by other means. Unfortunately there isn’t a role for a full time publicist at this stage in the evolution of the company."

The good news is that Kris has established her own independent publicity company KrisKat Publicity and will continue to work within the country music industry.

Kris can be contacted at E: kriskatpublicity@gmail.com M: 0414 334 348

From this Thursday all general Compass Bros enquiries should be directed to Graham Thompson: graham@compassbros.com.au  Ph: 02 4284 2002 and all accounts enquiries to Bernie Saxby: bernie@compassbros.com.au Ph: 0407 127 313

Kris

Calling Me Home - The Best Of (Collector’s Edition)
Release Date: 30th April, 2010

Sara Storer has become one of Australia’s most celebrated musical storytellers and is now releasing her first Greatest Hits collection. Disc One of this two disc package includes the new tracks ‘Calling Me Home’, ‘Tears’ and ‘Children Of The Gurindji’ as well as a collection of Sara Storer’s biggest hits to date – including ‘Buffalo Bill’, ‘Back Out Back’ and ‘Land Cries Out’. 

Disc two features more Sara Storer hits, new recordings of ‘Molly Green’ and ‘Star’ plus live tracks and rarities. It includes brand new recordings of favourites ‘Molly Green’ and ‘Star’, Storer’s version of ‘Mallee Girl’ plus duets with Josh Cunningham, Paul Kelly and brother Greg Storer. The live tracks include ‘Dungarees’ with The Sunny Cowgirls and ‘Christmas In The Country’ with Shane Howard. There are 37 tracks all up in this collection of music.

Track Listing

Calling Me Home – The Best Of Sara Storer is released on April 30, 2010
through ABC Music/Universal Music Australia

Sara's Bio

Talk to people about Sara Storer and the same words keep being used: ‘real’, ‘unaffected’, ‘authentic’. It’s partly a way of acknowledging that she’s lived the life she sings about – growing up on a farm in Victoria’s Mallee, her grandfather a pioneer of the district, then teaching in tiny bush towns in Queensland and the Northern Territory.

But authenticity alone doesn’t make a great artist. Sara has a hungry writer’s eye, her songs full of vivid, telling moments and narratives that seem to drop the listener into a freshly minted world. The voice that tells these tales is open and unguarded; the music seductive yet energised. Her songs speak with great directness and immediacy, as if we had found

ourselves on the road, or round the campfire, with the characters of the song.

Some songwriters take their inspirations from other songs; with Sara, the starting point is more often a scene torn directly from life. Her first song, ‘Buffallo Bill’, is typical: the story drawn from a retired buffalo shooter she met when working in a truck stop in the small Queensland town of Camooweal. She gave him the song as you would a gift, saw the tears it brought forth from the old man, and started to understand the power of song.

Soon she moved to the Territory, teaching in Kalkaringi, an Aboriginal settlement 500km south west of Katherine. There she developed her songwriting and began to play for friends – at parties and around campfires. A friend encouraged her to enter a talent quest at the town of Adelaide River, a dot in the red dirt of the far north. The ‘encouragement prize’ was a workshop at the Australian College of Country Music, held in the weeks leading up to the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Sara took the two-week course in January 2000. Just four years later, she was back at the same festival – and won more awards in a single festival than anyone before or since: seven Golden Guitars.

She’d been busy, of course, during those intervening four years. When she first went to Tamworth, with her ticket from Adelaide River, she met the record producer Garth Porter. Garth recorded six of her songs and introduced her to ABC Music, who quickly signed the young artist. Her first album, Chasing Buffalo, came out later that year, producing three number one singles on the country charts – starting with ‘Buffalo Bill’.

Sara won the Best New Talent award at the 2001 Country Music Awards, and then – in 2002 – released her second album Beautiful Circle, this time with the stand-out song ‘Raining on the Plain’, a duet with John Williamson. By 2004, with that record haul of Golden Guitars, there was no stopping her. Two more acclaimed albums followed – Firefly (2005) and Silver Skies (2007) – and now the one you hold in your hands.

Paul Kelly, Australia’s master-songwriter, may have best captured her unique talent: ‘You know she’s paid attention,’ he says, ‘heard the bush waking up in the morning, listened to the worries thrashed out at the kitchen table, smelt dry summer wheat up close, dreamed of far away places in a bedroom with a window on a big sky, driven miles on dirt and bitumen and fallen in and out of love. She’s found her own way to sing the stories that are all around her and then inside her bubbling out. She doesn’t copy over-emotive, fake sincere twangy country singers from overseas. She’s found her own restraint and steel and lets her songs do their sweet, sly work.’

Let the sweet, sly work begin; press ‘play’ on Calling Me Home and let Sara Storer tell you a tale.

– Richard Glover, presenter of Drive, 702 ABC Sydney

“Sara has a unique way of seeing and expressing her observations of love and life in the bush. So she is a songwriter who will be remembered beyond her lifetime,” says iconic bush balladeer John Williamson.

Sara Storer
Career Highlights So Far

* Sara Storer has won twelve CMAA Country Music Awards (Golden Guitars) - her first being for Best New Talent in 2001 and her most recent in 2010 for Music Video of the Year for ‘When I Was A Boy’ with her brother Greg Storer.

* Sara Storer made history when she won a record seven Golden Guitars in 2004.

* Sara Storer has released four studio albums earning her two Gold albums (Chasing Buffalo, Fireflys) and one Platinum (Beautiful Circle) album.  Her DVD release Stories To Tell is also a Gold selling release. 

* Sara Storer has recorded duets with Paul Kelly, John Williamson, Josh Cunningham (from the Waifs) and her brother, Greg Storer.

* Sara Storer has appeared on major compilation albums including Coastal Chill, She Will Have Her Way (The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn), Cannot Buy My Soul (The Songs of Kev Carmondy) and the Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger soundtrack.

* Sara Storer has toured with The Waifs, Suzanne Vega and Paul Kelly as well as highly successful collaboration, Songbirds.

* Sara Storer has a chapter written about her in a book entitled Women of the Outback by Sue Williams.

* Sara Storer performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006.

* On April 30, 2010 Sara Storer will release her first Greatest Hits collection titled Calling Me Home – The Best Of Sara Storer through ABC Music/Universal Music Australia.

“Sara has a unique way of seeing and expressing her observations of love and life in the bush. So she is a songwriter who will be remembered beyond her lifetime,” says iconic bush balladeer John Williamson.

Gary Turner

The ACM Awards Winners Are Announced!

Sony Music Nashville enjoyed an amazing night at The 45th Annual ACM Awards, with eight wins and performances by Miranda Lambert, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, and Carrie Underwood, who claimed her second consecutive Entertainer of the Year trophy. The only female to be named ACM Entertainer twice, Carrie also earned the Triple Crown Award (recognizing prior wins as Top New Artist, Top Female Vocalist, and Entertainer). Lambert walked away with this year’s Top Female Vocalist honor, as well as Video of the Year (“White Liar”), and Album of the Year for Revolution, making her the first solo female in ACM history to win Album twice. Paisley extended his already-record-setting streak as Top Male Vocalist with his fourth win in a row, while Brooks & Dunn won Top Vocal Duo – adding to their place as the ACM’s all-time most-awarded act – and Montgomery Gentry’s charitable work was recognized with the duo’s receipt of the ACM/Home Depot Humanitarian Award.

Entertainer of the Year
Carrie Underwood
"Fans, god bless you so much. Thank you, country music."

Top Male Vocalist
Brad Paisley
"Thanks to the fans who have been amazing to me for so many years -- buying tickets and showing up."

Top Female Vocalist
Miranda Lambert
"Thank you so much to the fans. This is my life, and you make it great."

Top Vocal Duo
Brooks & Dunn
"What an amazing 20 years we've had, thanks to you. God bless you all. We really appreciate it." -- Kix Brooks

Album of the Year
Revolution
Miranda Lambert
"This is what I do. It's the only thing I live for. Thanks for loving it."

Video of the Year
"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert

ACM / The Home Depot Humanitarian Award Winners: 2010 Recipient: Montgomery Gentry
Montgomery Gentry's high energy levels onstage seem to flow seamlessly into their vigorous participation with a number of charitable organizations. The award-winning duo actively supports the U.S. military and the TJ Martell Foundation. Furthermore, Eddie Montgomery supports Camp Horsin' Around in Lexington, Ky., which provides a camp facility for children with serious, chronic illnesses and physical difficulties, while Troy Gentry collaborates with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Other causes the duo have been a part of include St. Jude's Research Hospital, Academy of Country Music's Chairman's Ride benefiting ACM Lifting Lives, USO tours to the Persian Gulf, Hospice of the Bluegrass, Multiple Myeloma Foundation, David Dickens Melanoma Research Foundation, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Patient Advocate Foundation.

ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn - The Last Rodeo

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, the best-selling duo in the history of country music, received the Academy's Milestone Award in recognition of their 20-year, record-breaking career during the tribute concert special. The duo were honored for holding the record for the most wins of any artist in the Academy's history with 27 awards in total, including three Entertainer of the Year awards. They will also be honored for holding the record for most Top Vocal Duo wins, with 15 awards, eight of which are consecutive from 2000-2007. Artists who performed as part of the tribute concert included superstars Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.

Emma Smith

Michael Fix News

Hello everyone,

I had a fantastic time in Germany presenting Maton guitar workshops & performing at the Frankfurt Music Messe, one of the largest music trade shows in the world.

I'm back home in Brisbane now, preparing for the next round of

concerts, including some shows close to home.

First, some news items: I'm pleased to report that I'm a finalist in the Qld CM awards for "Best Instrumental" - Light at the end of the Tunnel. Winners are announced next Friday, April 30th in Charters Towers, Qld.

Late last year I recorded an instructional DVD for Acoustic Music Records, (my CD distributor in Europe) and this DVD/book is now available. You can check it out, and order it direct from the Acoustic Music website

In the DVD I breakdown 2 of my tunes Two Left Feet, and Stringin' the Blues. I present it in both English and German - aren't I clever! 

There's quite a few shows coming up in May, and I'm particularly looking forward to a series of concerts with multi-instrumentalist Paul Burton.

Paul & I used to tour together as part of Graeme Connors' touring band, & we've remained close friends ever since. Paul has a duo partner - Andrew Toner - a fantastic young guitar player. We are planning a show which combines great entertainment, variety, and musical virtuosity!

Gig Guide on the tours page

Hope to see you at a concert soon!
Michael Fix

Leanne Front Page News In Canberra Monday Morning

All of your world  Out Now To Radio   March 22
NfS 139 Track 14  #21 and eight weeks in Top 50 CMC
From Leanne Melmoth’s latest album ‘Perfect Day’

Album information
Perfect Day is a collection of original material, 10 songs in total, all written by Leanne.
The album recorded at Grove Studio's in Gosford, produced and arranged by David Holmes.  Session musicians
David Holmes – Guitar; Jeff Camilleri – Bass; Andy Sorrenson - Keyboard, backing vocals and sound engineer Mitch Farmer – Drums. 

Perfect Day  is  available from The Music Shop chain around Australia, Songland Tuggeranong, and online at www.musicshop.com.au
Music video produced & directed by Ross Wood 171 Entertainment

A Perfect Day is stating the obvious for ACT’s Leanne Melmoth.

Monday morning’s newstand in the nation’s capital had her face on the front page of the free edition Canberra Weekly, the cover story profiling one of their own.

All this, and news too, her latest track ‘All of your World’, now eight weeks in CMC’s Top 50 on Foxtel, and yesterday at 21 in their charts.

Listen in to your favourite radio station, or call in and request ‘All of your World’, you won’t be disappointed.

For an extract on Monday’s COVER STORY Canberra Weekly 19April2010, go to page 2

Rhonda Sinclair

Mark Chesnutt's Outlaw Streets June 22nd
A Compilation Of His Favorites From His Heroes

Mark Chesnutt has un-cinched a new collection of All-American, all-time favorite, whiskey-soaked standards in his 14th studio album, Outlaw, which streets June 22nd.

Saguaro Road Records, which is also home to Patty Loveless, Tanya

Tucker and Collin Raye, gets in some cool music--this time from Mark Chesnutt. This one, however, is different for Mark, because it features songs from some of her personal heroes and life-long friends, including Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings.

Mark says, “When I was first approached to record this CD, my reaction wasn’t just ‘yes,’ but ‘hell, yeah,’! I cut my teeth on this kind of music and it’s an opportunity [that might not have otherwise presented itself] for me to pay tribute to some of my biggest heroes in country music.”

Those who were in Denver at the famed Grizzly Rose that night in 1993 remember when Mark just "showed up" and sang with the band that was on-stage that night.

Folks were requesting "Mark Chesnutt songs", to which Mark replied, "That's boring!" Then, he wailed some incredible renditions of tunes from Waylon, Merle and Willie. The crowd was stunned! The music was fantastic!

Marty Martel

Special Offer For Mother's Day
From Merilyn Steele & Cdbaby

Hello country music friends,

hope  you're having a great day! Just wanted to let you know about this LIMITED price offer courtesy of  CDBaby (my internet distributor). If you haven't purchased my music before, this is a one off special that makes a great gift, especially for Mother's Day! (or why not just for yourself?)

 If you purchased 'Extraordinary Daze',  you'll love my other CD, 'This Passion' or vice versa.
Here's the offer;

Physical CD - $10.99 USD
Digital Download CD -  $10.00 USD

That's great value at almost half the regular price!! To read reviews and hear song samples from these albums and take up this offer, click on -

www.cdbaby.com/merilynsteele - for This Passion
www.cdbaby.com/merilynsteele2 - For Extraordinary Daze

Order now to receive in time for Mother's Day. Hope you enjoy the music!

Best Wishes,
Merilyn

Selling Fast, Get In Early To Avoid Disappointment.

Oz Country Music Festival
Be part of
Fiji’s First Country Music Festival

Featuring
John Williamson, Bill Chambers, Felicity Urquhart & Glen Hannah, Jonah’s Road, Ashleigh Dallas Band and more to be announced.

August 1st – 7th 2010
Cost from $2299.00 per person

Twin Share includes:
Return Airfares from Sydney
Return transfers, 7 nights at a 4 Star Resort in Fiji
All Meals, Country Music Festival Tickets
Nightly entertainment, Firewalking Show
Welcome cocktail party
Canapes every afternoon during happy hour
Free Scuba Lesson, Free Snorkel Hire and more.

For more details call Country Music Holidays 1300 799 987

Michelle Costigan & Jenny Haslem

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