Two Australian country acts are up for Grammy Awards in January following the recent announcement of finalists.
 Both The Greencards and Keith Urban are up for America's most prestigious music award... Keith for the umpteenth time, The Greencards for the third.

Keith is nominated with Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift in Best Country Duo/Group Performance for Highway Don't Care while The Greencards are actually up for Best Folk Album with Sweetheart Of The Sun .

New from Ruckus

Ruckus will launch a new album, Love This Country , next month and has just released the second single from the work, titled Dear John .

Dear John is a song about how tough life on the road can be on relationships and the consequences arising from life away from home.

The new album, which will be officially launched in January, was mixed and mastered by Gavin Parker.

Weblink –  .www.ruckus.net.au

Artist: Brady Honeycutt
Title Of Album: Nothin To Lose
Year Of Release: 2013

 Without a doubt, country music has been a big part of this young mans life. At a young age, Brady was introduced to Traditional Country Music and Western Swing and now loves listening, playing and writing that style of music. The enjoyment of taking the stage and watching people dance and have a good time is a high he can't get enough of. Brady has loved to sing and play country tunes since he was a little boy. His first live appearance/performance on stage (at 5 years old) was with Western Swing Hall of Fame Singer/Fiddle player Jody Nix & The Texas Cowboys in Midland, Texas. Now he travels from dancehall-to-dancehall singing and playing, enjoying every minute of the performance. His first album "Nothin' To Lose" will be released early summer of 2013. The album includes both original music written by Brady Honeycutt himself, as well as cover tunes that he grew up loving! If you are a fan of traditional country dance music, western swing, this is the cd for you!

                                         The Devil Makes Three
                                                           I'm A Stranger Here


oduced by Americana icon Buddy Miller and recorded at Dan Auberbach's Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the 1Described by frontman Pete Bernhard as a 'very dark record thematically, lyrically and sonically,' I'm A Stranger Here is also the band's biggest sounding record to date. Pr0-track collection features the drummer-less acoustic threesome of singer/guitarist Bernhard, guitarist/banjoist Cooper McBean and stand up bassist Lucia Turino coloring their songs with an expanded sonic palette - percussion, strings, electric guitar, fiddle, vibes and a variety of horns are used to powerful effect.




 

                                     Grammys Add Shelton, Nelson, Haggard, Kristofferson
Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Blake Shelton will share the stage at the upcoming Grammy Awards to pay homage to their roots in Oklahoma and Texas.

This will be Haggard's first-ever performance on the show, according to the Recording Academy. The Grammy Awards will air live on CBS on Jan. 2

                    Taylor Swift donated $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony


Taylor Swift celebrated her 24th birthday ( Dec. 13) by giving a generous gift, instead of receiving one. In honor of her big day, the singer donated $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony.
The gift comes at an important time for the Music City venue. The Nashville Symphony considered filing for bankruptcy earlier this year, and continue to try to recover from their financial losses.
This is not the ‘Sweeter Than Fiction’ singer’s first donation to her local community. She previously donated an astonishing $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, with the money funding the Taylor Swift Education Center.
Swift is home for the holidays before she kicks off the final leg of her year-long, worldwide Red Tour, which will play a series of shows in London in 2014, as well as a stop in Berlin

                       
  

         

   

                                                     Upcoming Events

                                                     February 1, 2014
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                                                     The O2 Arena - London
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                                                     O2 World - Berlin
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                                                    The O2 Arena - London
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                                                    The O2 Arena - London

23 year-old Taylor Swift is a seven-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. She is the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album (2012’s RED and 2010’s Speak Now) hit the 1 million first-week sales figure.
With RED, Taylor became the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at #1 with three consecutive studio albums. RED has topped the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for seven weeks, following Fearless (11 weeks), and Speak Now (six weeks).

   

   

                                                            Kirsten daugaard
                                                           new album des 2013


Kirsten daugaard er country vokalist fra Kristiansand og opptrer som duo med gitarist bengt Vagle.
Kirsten har det siste året spilt rundt om i Norge og fått god kritikk for sin opptreden både sang og valg av repotoar.
Ute med sin første solo cd "COUNTRY MUSIC MY WAY" Arne Benoni som produsent i sammarbeid med studio i Nashville.
Meget bra album

 

 Kirsten Daugaard is a Norwegian country singer
Out of his first solo CD also this is the Arne Benoni producing in collaboration with the studio in Nashville.

 Singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson will be honored with the Recording Academy’s Lifetime          Achievement Award during a Grammy Week ceremony Jan. 25, with formal acknowledgment of the honor made during the Jan. 26 Grammy telecast on CBS-TV

Kris is a three-time GRAMMY winner and one of the most accomplished country stars of the late 20th century. This legendary artist rose to fame when numerous country singers began to cover his music. The Texas-born singer, songwriter, musician, and actor dominated the country music scene during the early ’70s with hits such as “Help Me Make It Through The Night,” “Me And Bobby McGee,” and “Lover Please.” While balancing his music and acting career, Kristofferson went on to form the country supergroup The Highwaymen, which included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Kristofferson also has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

            Scandals in Country Music

 

 Glen Campbell 

1.  In 2003, country singer Glen Campbell had a run-in with the law in Phoenix, Arizona. According to police, he was driving drunk and hit a car at an intersection. He left the scene of the accident, and when confronted kneed a police officer in the thigh. According to Sgt. Randy Force, Campbell sung his hit "Rhinestone Cowboy" in his cell in the incident's aftermath. The singer pled guilty to DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. He spent 10 days in jail and agreed to carry out community service.

 

Billy Joe Shaver  

 In March 2007, Billy Joe Shaver shot Billy Bryant Coker in the face outside a bar in Lorena, Texas. Shaver used a light caliber .22 pistol, and lucky for Shaver  Coker survived

claimed that he had been defending his life.

"I felt he was gonna kill me," Shaver told a court in 2011. He explained that Coker, who had been rude to his then-wife Wanda, brandished a knife inside the bar and asked Shaver to step outside. "He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen -- a big bad one. And I been all around the world."

Outside, witnesses reported that Shaver asked Coker, "Where do you want it?" He then shot him and fled the scene.

All the same, the jury acquitted Shaver of aggravated assault charges.

Afterwards, Dale Watson wrote a song about the shooting called "Where Do You Want It?"

Shaver denies he ever asked such a question, and later penned his own song about the event called "Wacko From Waco."

 

 

 

 

 

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COUNTRY GOSPEL KONSERT I GRIMSTAD KIRKE
Fredag 27 Desember er det klart for en ny og Populær Gospelkonsert i Grimstad Kirke,
Artistene er klare og er som følger :
Aslak Gjennestad
Ivar Erdal
Dawn Elizabeth Erdal
Sivert Bjørdal
Rita Skjeggedal
Karianne Gjennestad
Steffen Jakobsen

Dørene åpner kl 18.00 og konserten starter kl 19.00 og varer ca 2 timer.
inngang kr 250,- pr.person barn under 12 år kr 150,-