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A Little Bit Country – 27 Sep 2009

Laurencia — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:04:43 +0000

Thought it was a about time I put a post on the website. Ove the last month I’ve been featuring a few new names. Jordie Lane was playing at the Norfolk Hotel in Fremantle recently and I just happened to be there! So I bought a copy of his new CD called Sleeping Patterns and I’ve been playing it ever since. He’s young but he sounds and writes like an old soul. He also produced a great album with a Canadian gal, Tracy McNeil under the band name Fireside Bellows. So listeners have been hearing this album over the last month or so. Also Buddy and Julie Miller’s new album, “Written in Chalk” featuring guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant and Patty Griffin. I still haven’t tired of Teddy Thompson’s ”Upfront and Down Low” or Eilen Jewell’s “Sea of Tears”. Today I played Justin Townes Earle just to get in the mood for his Australian tour starting next week. I’ll be in Melbourne for next Friday’s gig at the Thornbury Theatre. I saw him last year at the Grace Emily in Adelaide and have been talking about him ever since. A show not to be missed!! It’s a pity these gigs are a bit more costly these days when you live in Alice Springs. I ordered a copy of JTE’s new album “Midnight at the movies and it still “hasn’t arrived. So that will be the feature of next week’s show. Hopefully a signed copy!

A Little Bit Country – 31 May 2009

Laurencia — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:05:16 +0000

Today’s show featured Eilen Jewell’s new album ‘Sea of Tears’ and Teddy Thompson’s Upfront and Down Low. I’ve been a fan since I heard his version of King of the Road sung with Rufus Wainright and then heard him belt out a beautiful rendition of the Leonard Cohen song “Tonight will be Fine”. Eilen Jewell’s music is kinda country swing and rockabililly. I love her voice and different style. So in there as well were some old tracks of Chris Isaak who fits with alternative country and Dwight Yoakam too. All great singers with modern day crooner voices. And I ended with Neil Murray singing Coolamon Moon becasue he was here in Alice Springs the other night – a very short notice gig at Olive Pink Botanic Gardens and Sammy Butcher came late and played guitar alongside him. Old mates from their days in the Warumpi Band from Papunya. A great night of dancing in the dust!

A Little Bit Country – Sunday 15 March 2009

Laurencia — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:12:40 +0000

Playlist

Huckleberry Suedes – Wild Peach
Huckleberry Suedes – Black Gold
Huckleberry Suedes – Hair Trigger
Paul Kelly – Pretty Place
The Audreys – Oh Honey
Sara Storer – Won’t Give In
Geoffrey Gurramul Yanupingu – Marwurunburr
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty
Guy Clarke – Nickel for the Fiddler
Corb Lund – Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson – Devil’s Inside My Head
Corb Lund – I want to be in the Calvery
Kasey Chambers an Shane Nicholson – Once in a While
The Greencards – Who Knows
The Greencards – Bordered on a Breakdown
The Greencards – Shinin’ in the Dark
Old Crow Medicine Show – Alabama High Test
Gatorbait – Poor Boy Blues
Old Crow Medicine Show – Alabama High Test
Begonias – Something Less is Something More
Begonias – Gone
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Gone, Gone, gone
Fred Eaglesmith – Tinderbox