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SEPTEMBER 1993
NEWS: included coverage of the Outback Club Vocal Talent Quest at the West Tamworth League Club which featured an appearance by LEE KERNAGHAN and a preview of his next album Three Chain Road... GINA JEFFREYS undertaking an "exploratory expedition" to Nashville where she did some co-writing with a number of Warner/Chappell stable-mates... Tamworth City Council to complete renovations on the Mechanics’ Institute for the Australian Country Music Foundation... nominees announced for America’s CMA Awards... REG LINDSAY recording his first album for new label Larrikin Entertainment... COLIN BUCHANAN releases an album of childrens songs... and country music to play a part in the "world's biggest barbecue" promotion.
SPECIAL FEATURES: highlighted BECCY COLE’s quest for stardom with the release of her Star Maker single Foolin’ Around... the career of CRAIG GILES, one of the most popular performers in Australia today... a John Minson feature on THE SINGING KETTLES... and the rise and rise of Branson, Missouri, as a tourist destination.
FESTIVAL NEWS: included coverage of the upcoming Wodonga and Mildura Country Music Festivals in Victoria... the Broken Hill, Steel City (Newcastle), Merimbula and inaugural Rosevale Rodeo & Country Music Festivals in NSW... the Port Pirie Festival of Country Music and Gawler Country Music Festival in South Australia... and the Emerald Country Music Spectacular in Queensland.
COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE: has stories on JAMES BLUNDELL and his new album Touch Of Water... "the drover’s son" SHANE HOGAN... and American ex-pat and Aussie resident, singer, songwriter and producer JACK PLEDGE.
HERE & THERE: reported on the 14th annual 2SER-FM Country Music Shindig... THE FARGONE BEAUTIES making a number of cameo appearances in the movie Exchange Lifeguards... Star Maker ‘89 CRAIG ROBERTSON due to have his debut album out early next year... the WOLVERINES to release an album in America... New Zealander DUSTY SPITTLE back on the road again after surgery... and Wagga Wagga City Council debates whether or not to use the GRANT LUHRS release One Foot In The ‘Bidgee as the official city anthem.
CHARTS: WILLIE NELSON hangs on to the number one spot with Across The Borderline and BILLY RAY CYRUS’ new album It Won’t Be The Last debuts at number two. GRAEME CONNORS’ The Return slips back to number three while ANNE KIRKPATRICK’s Game Of Love debuts at number four and The Winners, the first in the Country Music Association of Australia’s compilation albums from the Country Music Awards of Australia rises to number five. New entries this month include PETER HORAN’s More Country Piano at 23 and NOEL WATSON’s Spirit Of Australia at 26.
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