Bob Wootton and Six Mile Grove Guaranteed Cash Trailer
Bob Wootton, who played guitar in Johnny Cash's band for 30 years, retired from music after parting with Johnny. But after a chance meeting with some farm bo...
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Artist: Six Mile Grove
Title: Secret Life in a Small Town
Label: Rena’s Kitchen
Home: www.sixmilegrove.com
It all started in the small town of Lyle, MN (pop. 500) with a skid loader and a fence post, when Six Mile Grove frontman Brandon Sampson was 7 years old. He injured his hand when helping his dad on the family farm. The physician recommended guitar playing for rehabilitation, and a few weeks later, Sampson came home from the music store with a new guitar. His younger brother Brian threw a fit, and was appeased with a shiny drum set. And so the seeds of Six Mile Grove were planted.
The brothers spent years pounding away on their instruments in the kitchen of their great grandmother’s old house, as well as singing in church with their mom, an organist and devoted music lover. Soon Brian’s friend Barry, from across the woods, wanted to join the noise, and so his years of piano lessons began paying off. The boys realized they would need a bass player, put an ad in the paper, and dug up Dezi Wallace from the “big city” of Austin, MN, who arrived courtesy of his mom, as he did not yet have a driver’s license.
Fast forward 15 years, and Six Mile Grove has a lot to be proud of. They have weathered the ever changing music scene as a primarily self-managed, self-produced, and self-recorded band. Their music has evolved accordingly, as an organic, honest voice that has not been tinkered with or tainted by the lure of record labels or flashy music producers. You’re sure to find influences of Minnesota music’s founding fathers; from Bob Dylan to the Jayhawks, Six Mile Grove honours it’s roots, but has also managed to forge it’s own sound and space on a stage without compromise. They hearken most to the genre of Americana, which recognizes the value of songwriting and musicianship over radio charts and record sales, and reflects that in artists as diverse as Emmy Lou Harris and Lyle Lovett. In addition, their friendship, touring and recording with legendary Johnny Cash guitarist Bob Wootton, has lended even more distinctly to their “good all-American boy” sound and style.
Six Mile Grove is releasing it’s sixth album this Spring 2012, titled “Secret Life in a Quiet Town.” In this album, Sampson muses on the responsibilities of providing for a family, keeping love alive, and fighting for what’s right in the world. These themes resonate with all the members of the band, as guys with day jobs, wives and kids. You’ll hear the whines and growls in Nelson’s piano and lead guitar licks; the take-it-easy pace of Wallace’s bass, and the simple to furious tempos in Brian Sampson’s drums.
Also available on Six Mile Groves label Rena’s Kitchen Records "Guaranteed Cash" with Johnny Cash's Guitarist of 35 years
As Bob Wootton states, “There’s nothing fancy about them and they don’t try to be something they’re not. And that’s what I like about them.”
Artist: Bob Wootton & Six Mile Grove
Title: Guaranteed Cash
Label: Rena’s Kitchen
Home: www..sixmilegrove.com
THE SONGS AND SOUNDS OF JOHNNY CASH
ACT ONE: It’s 1968, and Bob Wootton quits his job as a bartender, and catches a ride to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to see his favorite musician Johnny Cash play at a political rally for Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. Cash’s band is delayed. Wootton’s girlfriend at the time finds June (Carter Cash), and tells her that her boyfriend knows all of Johnny’s songs. Bob is invited backstage, and handed a guitar. Without an ounce of nerves, Wootton hits every note; he
continues to play across the globe with Cash for another thirty years; from Folsom Prison to the Buckingham Palace. He becomes Cash’s friend, body guard, and even stunt double. When Cash quits playing music in 1998, due to failing health, Bob hangs up his guitar too, and takes a job driving tour buses for other musicians.
ACT TWO: It’s 2003, and Wootton meets Six Mile Grove frontman Brandon Sampson, through a mutual friend, when driving a band through Minnesota. Sampson, a long time Cash fan,encourages Wootton to pick up his guitar again. In January 2004, Wootton returns to Minnesota with guitar in hand, to play the “Cash Only” tribute show with Six Mile Grove as his band. The two night show sells out, and the fans go wild for Wootton’s legendary guitar sound, and
uncanny resemblance to Cash, in voice and stature. Wootton begins making frequent trips to Minnesota to tour with Six Mile Grove. Six Mile Grove opens the act with their original music,and brings Bob on stage, to bring “the Songs and Sounds of Johnny Cash” to life for fans of all ages.
ACT THREE: It’s 2012, Wootton and Six Mile Grove are taking to the road again, this time to promote the release of this collaboration “Guaranteed Cash,” an album of classic Johnny Cash tunes, as well as the upcoming release of Six Mile Grove’s sixth album, Secret Life in a Quiet Town, due out this Spring.
THE PLAYERS: BOB WOOTTON is the real deal. He still picks the “boom chicka boom” out of a guitar the way he did for 30 years when touring with Johnny Cash, as an original member of “The Tennessee Three.” What he says of Six Mile Grove: “We have a good time. They’re like family to me. They’re just good all-American boys. There’s nothing fancy about them and they don’t try to be something they’re not. And that’s what I like about them, because that’s how I am. I try not to act like somebody, because I’m not. I’m just lucky I get to do what I do.” SIX MILE GROVE is a band of earnest-faced hardworking farm boys who’ve been writing and playing original music together since 1997. They are releasing their 6th album, “Secret Life in a Quiet Town,” in spring of 2012.Touring The UK soon in support of both of these albums.
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Matt Urmy and Mary Gauthier recording Sweet Lonesome at Quonset Hut Studios
Its Medicine Show Wednesday every second wednesday of the month join Rob Ellen on UK Country Radio.com, 8pm, repeated 4pm on the following Thursday.
This Medicine show was first broadcast on UkCountryRadio.com in Jan 2011 and features a concert features Matt Urmy as his album Sweet Lonesome has this month entered the Euro Americana Chart at 3. Sweet Lonesome was the first album to be recorded at the recently refurbished legendary Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut Studios, the first Nashville Studio where The Nashville Sound was fostered. I'll be looking back at some of those great recording from the perspective of one of Nashvilles rising stars Matt Urmy.
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The Medicine Show Presents Benny Gallagher @ Acoustic Strathpeffer Coffee Shop Session,
Coffee Shop Cromarty Buildings Strathpeffer Ross-shire. Scotland IV14 9dg 01997 421500. (By Dingwall) March 6th ticket £15 On sale here and from the venue only 30 available, so "Don't Be Late Don't Hesitate".
"In an intimate evening of songs and stories about his days as a Staff Writer with The Beatles Publishing Co. Apple, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Benny Gallagher will perform all of the hits he penned for McGuinness Flint and Gallagher & Lyle - songs that have since been recorded by:
Art Garfunkel, Bryan Ferry, Colin Blunstone, Donavon Frankenreiter, Don Williams, Elkie Brooks, Fairport Convention, Garth Brooks (Concert in Central Park), Judith Durham, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Mary Hopkin, Phil Everly, Ricky Nelson, Ringo Starr, Rita Coolidge, Status Quo, Simon and Garfunkel (Concert in Central Park), The Fureys, and Lemon Jelly to name but a few..... along with some great new songs from his latest Album ‘At The Edge of the Wave’
For 40 years and more, Benny Gallagher has been writing, composing, arranging and performing timeless classics. Small wonder then that, with Graham Lyle, he was one of the first songwriters to be signed by Apple Publishing. Success as an artist quickly followed when the legendary McGuinness Flint stormed the charts with When I'm Dead And Gone and Malt and Barley Blues.
Then came seven more albums and world tours with the majestic Gallagher & Lyle - by which time Benny’s reputation was cemented as one of the UK’s foremost songwriters of his generation. 
Benny Gallagher in conversation with Rob Ellen Acoustic Strathpeffer
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The Medicine Show every second Wednesday of every month is featured on UK Country Radio.com this months show featured No Comebacks in conversation and a Celtic Connections preview, www.ukcountryradio.com to listen to live feed 8pm Jan 13th (repeated 4pm next Thursdays) www.themedicineshow.eu for feeds to Nevis Radio Medicine Show every Wednesday 10pm (GMT) and more info on all Medicine Shows.
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Intro Hungry Hash House Ramblers - Cherokee Shuffle
Arty Hill and The Long Gone Daddies - I'm a Long Gone Daddy - Montgomery on my Mind
Hanks Williams - Faded Love and Winter Roses - The Hanks Williams Story
Daddy - Wash and Fold - For a Second Time
Professor Longhair - Tripitinas 1945 - Tripitina
No Comebacks - Interview
No Comebacks (with PJ Proby) - Corrina Corrina - Back In The Saddle Again
Bob Wills and his Texas Play Boys - San Antonio Rose
Eric Brace and Last Train Home - My Baby Just Cares For Me - Six Songs
Phil Lee - Neon Tombstone - East Nashville - Vol 3 More Songs From The Other side
AJ Roach - Cold As Christmas - Dogwood Winter
Robby Hecht - Chemicals - Late Last Night
Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams - Radio -A Good Thief Tips His Hat
Furnace Mountain -Winters Nights - Fields Of Fescue
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