The accent on the other end of the phone is a familiar Tennessee twang diluted with a 17-year stint in London, via a decade in New York. I’ve regularly heard it over the radio or over clubbing crowds at Buck ‘n’ Bull nights. This time though country DJ Baylen Leonard is not just introducing songs, […]
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I do not have a single decent photograph from last night’s Brothers Osborne show. I borrowed the one above. Blame the blurriness on the drinking blame the drinking on the blurriness… Once again I tried to instigate my ‘sip of whiskey every time whiskey is mentioned in a song’ drinking game, but somewhere between opener […]
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Is anyone else spending as much time thinking about country music festivals as I am at the moment? They have become a much needed symbol of escape for me. I am in a cramped temporary production hub in the south Wales Valleys. This is my office / home / universe for the next few weeks […]
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Country fans, we are apparently the 2018 zeitgeist. Seriously, The Guardian newspaper said so. That’s probably why this year, the UK has more country music festivals to choose from than ever before. There’s Nashville Meets London set among the skyscrapers, Millport on a Scottish Island, while two of the biggest (Buckle and Boots and newbie […]
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It was gloriously apparent this was a country music event before it even began. The night before the official start of C2C festival, five musicians took to the stage to share their songs and stories at the CMA Songwriters Series. The first three songs in a row were drinking songs and the boozy streak was […]
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