June 12. 2009
Here's the new edition of HOT COUNTRY NEWS - a digest of the latest news from the country music world edited by broadcaster and journalist Stuart Cameron from a European perspective.
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NICK & NOAH STILL HOTDISC No.1 BUT AUBREY TOPS BRITISH CHART
Nick and Noah Murray are still number 1 with their debut single, "Sling Shot Buddies" in the Hotdisc chart this week. The twins, who were officially the fourth heaviest set of twins in American history when they were born, are now setting more records with their music. Gord Bamford - with a Byron Hill-penned song called "Honkytonks And Heartaches" - slips to 3 while while Slovakian country stars Peter Dula and The Rowers plus guest Billy Ryan climb to number 2 with the excellent "Succeed".
It's a good week for Darren Kozelsky with "Seven Vern Gosdins Ago", as he leaps five to number 5 while Rob Ryan (8), Aubrey Lovejoy (10) and The Bellhops (14) climb nicely within the Top 20, with Aubrey's song "The Cheating Kind" climbing to number 1 in the British and Irish Top 10. Donna Frost and Nicki Gillis both debut inside the Top 20 while the highest entry in the Top 40 comes from Casey Dilworth.
The Hotdisc Top 20 programme presented by Jackie Storrar on CMR Nashville Radio will return on July 9th as Jackie is currently on holiday.
HOTDISC TOP 40
01 01 Sling Shot Buddies NICK & NOAH MURRAY
02 03 Succeed PETER DULA & THE ROWERS with BILLY RYAN
03 02 Honkytonks And Heartaches GORD BAMFORD
04 05 Dip Me In Beer JEFF GRIFFITH
05 10 Seven Vern Gosdins Ago DARREN KOZELSKY
06 04 We've Taken Bob Back To Tulsa R. W. HAMPTON
07 06 You Ain't Chet Yet BYRON HILL
08 13 The Highway Man ROB RYAN
09 08 Wheel Of Hurt SLIM WHITMAN
10 16 The Cheating Kind AUBREY LOVEJOY
11 07 Danger Of A Stranger STELLA PARTON
12 09 Too Far Gone SEAN PATRICK McGRAW
13 11 Never Too Old To Love SUSAN McCANN
14 17 You Only Call Me When You're Drunk THE BELLHOPS
15 15 You've Become The Dream SEAN WILSON
16 23 Jacksonville DONNA FROST
17 22 Remember Me NICKI GILLIS
18 14 My Give A Damn's Busted MICHELLE WRIGHT
19 19 Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues CHARLIE ALLEN
20 18 My Heart Ain't Helping LIZ TALLEY
21 20 I'm Not Afraid GEORGE McANTHONY
22 12 I Don't Want Us To Be GARY CURTIS
23 30 Kitchen Table TRAVIS LOGAN
24 25 Walking My Baby Back Home D K DAVIS
25 24 He's Back And I'm Blue GRAHAM CLARK
26 26 Bring It On RAY GRIFF
27 29 I Doubt If It Does To You CATHY-ANNE McCLINTOCK
28 21 You Can't Break A Broken Heart JASON McALLISTER
29 28 Love That She Never Got From Daddy SUZANNE EDWARDS
30 32 Dylan And Old John Prine CHRIS McLERNON
31 33 Tired Of Being Sorry JASON LEE WILSON
32 36 Behind The Wall DAVE ASPEN
33 NE That's The Way It Goes CASEY DILWORTH
34 NE Friday At The Latest SUSAN McCANN
35 27 Closer ROSIE HORNE
36 NE Old Forgotten Dad J P MAYTON
37 34 There She Goes KEVIN MONTGOMERY
38 NE Rescue Me TRACEE DAVIDSON & PM BAND
39 35 Cowgirls Do It Better RUSTIE BLUE
40 38 Real BRANDI THORNTON
HOTDISC INDEPENDENT TOP 20
01 01 Sling Shot Buddies NICK & NOAH MURRAY
02 03 Succeed PETER DULA & THE ROWERS with BILLY RYAN
03 02 Honkytonks And Heartaches GORD BAMFORD
04 05 Dip Me In Beer JEFF GRIFFITH
05 08 Seven Vern Gosdins Ago DARREN KOZELSKY
06 04 We've Taken Bob Back To Tulsa R. W. HAMPTON
07 06 You Ain't Chet Yet BYRON HILL
08 11 The Highway Man ROB RYAN
09 13 The Cheating Kind AUBREY LOVEJOY
10 07 Too Far Gone SEAN PATRICK McGRAW
11 09 Never Too Old To Love SUSAN McCANN
12 14 You Only Call Me When You're Drunk THE BELLHOPS
13 12 You've Become The Dream SEAN WILSON
14 20 Jacksonville DONNA FROST
15 19 Remember Me NICKI GILLIS
16 16 Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues CHARLIE ALLEN
17 15 My Heart Ain't Helping LIZ TALLEY
18 17 I'm Not Afraid GEORGE McANTHONY
19 10 I Don't Want Us To Be GARY CURTIS
20 NE Kitchen Table TRAVIS LOGAN
HOTDISC INDEPENDENT BRITISH & IRISH TOP 10
01 04 The Cheating Kind AUBREY LOVEJOY
02 01 Never Too Old To Love SUSAN McCANN
03 03 You've Become The Dream SEAN WILSON
04 02 I Don't Want Us To Be GARY CURTIS
05 08 Kitchen Table TRAVIS LOGAN
06 06 He's Back And I'm Blue GRAHAM CLARK
07 05 You Can't Break A Broken Heart JASON McALLISTER
08 09 Dylan And Old John Prine CHRIS McLERNON
09 10 Behind The Wall DAVE ASPEN
10 07 Closer ROSIE HORNE
NEWS IN BRIEF...
Hotdisc has just launched one of two new services ahead of schedule. Hotdisc Radio is now live and available from our home page at www.hotdisc.net while Hotdisc TV is due to go live on July 31st.
Hotdisc TV will be showcasing exclusive unplugged tracks by artists such as Stella Parton, Charlie Allen and Nicki Gillis, and star interviews. It will also become a hub for providing links to the best country music videos on the net including Hotdisc acts and also classic star tracks from the past. There will also be a British Country music channel.
Hotdisc Radio has teamed up with radio stations in Europe and Australia to provide hot live links to their own country music programmes so that country music fans can tune in to any of our affiliated country music DJs to hear their shows at the click of a button. How it works is very simple. If a listener is logging in to the site on a Tuesday evening they simply select the Tuesday button and all available country shows will be listed in the order they go to air. They select the programme they want to hear and that is it! To help overseas listeners British time is shown clearly at the top of each page.
More radio news and CMR Nashville has increased its audience again by 30% on both CMR Nashville and the music-only service, CMR Hot are available 24 hours a day from our own site or direct at www.CMRNashville.net and the station has been chosen by the influential "Metro" free newspaper (which is available all over England) as one of their three favourite websites. They will shortly have a new logo and website to freshen things up with many bonus features. MD Lee Williams is currently in Nashville with his artist Brianie and while over there will be looking for an American base for all the CMR Nashville group of companies.
Frank Fara of Comstock Records has released his first album for a while. "Songs of the Untamed West" is a collection of original songs penned by Fara and wallows unashamedly in nostalgia. The 10-track album is the first of its kind and his historically accurate. The cover of the album even features a painting by Frank who is indeed a multi-talented guy! Click www.FrankFara.com for more information.
Cathy-Ann McClintock's current duet with Tim O'Brien is enjoying some nice airplay in Europe at the moment, nestling nicely just outside the Hotdisc Top 20, and the good news is that she is making plans to come over to Ireland and Scotland in November. This will be her first time back in the UK since 2000 when she played some dates in this part of the world. As a writer one of the tracks from her album, "I Wanna Live Like That" has amassed 30 cover versions, something she is thrilled about.
Canadian Gord Bamford, currently at number 3 in the Hotdisc chart, is coming over on July 4th to play a festival in Tours, France. The Festival is a three-day event and features the likes of Charlie McCoy. For more news on the event go to www.country-bike-tours.com
Alan Jackson has announced three dates in Europe but nothing in the UK. He will be playing in Denmark, Norway and Sweden though for the first time ever and already 14,000 tickets in Norway alone. August 13, 14 and 15 are the dates and this will be the first trip for Alan to Europe for 19 years. Got to www.alanjackson.com for details.
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