While everything and everyone winds down for Christmas, we’re making time to reflect on all that matters – family, friends, faith… and the UK’s country music scene. Yes, while nothing outside our windows right now bears any resemblance to the snowy small-town America pictured on the Hallmark Christmas movies we’ve all grown worryingly addicted to, […]
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It’s that shameless time of year again. You know, the time when my own Christmas wish list masquerades as a blog post in hopes Santa / My Mum might be one of our subscribers. A couple of notes about this particular gift list: First, it assumes that both flights to Nashville and Lucchese cowboy boots […]
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I’ve woken up still buzzing from last night at the O2. Once again Brad Paisley provided a masterclass in audience interaction (just ask Hannah’s whose Instagram got taken over by the man himself, or the TWO youngsters who were given signed guitars out of the blue). As for the rest of us; we were given […]
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We weren’t supposed to be writing another “Overheard at…” post. This year we were not planning to spend the Leicestershire Americana festival shamelessly eavesdropping on our fellow music fans. Instead we were definitely, maybe going to do very serious interviews and also come up with a new, completely original blog idea, the likes of which […]
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Most of the year we go out of our way to show just how contemporary the country music scene is and to prove it’s not all double-denim, rhinestones and tassels. But then a festival like The Long Road rolls into town and suddenly we’re “OK, I’m off to meet my people… shut up and […]
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