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Years in the making and scheduled for late July / early August 2010, The Strut & Stumble Tour, will find Nels Andrews A. J. Roach and Ian Thomas Parks travelling and performing together throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The three are close friends and while they have often toured together in pairs, this will be the first ever tour featuring all three of these masterful songwriters.
Nels Andrews was born on a US Naval base in Oakland, CA. As a child Nels lived a nomadic life, moving to a new town whenever his father, a US Naval Officer, received a new station. This state of constant movement instilled in Nels a wanderlust that has had a big impact on his adult life. As a young adult Nels worked several seasons -- both in the canneries and on boats -- in Alaska's commercial fishing industry. Later he tried his hand at tree planting in the Black Hills of South Dakota and still later at furniture building in the mountains of New Mexico. Now living in Brooklyn, NY, Nels' musical catalog is overflowing with sketches of the people and places that he has encountered throughout his wanderings. His songs have won prestigious awards from The Kerrville Folk, Telluride, and Mountainstage Newsong festivals, and read like a cultural history of America's downtrodden and disenfranchised. These tales haven't gone unnoticed either. Aside from the aforementioned awards, Nels also held the #1 spot on the Euro-Americana Album Chart for 3 straight months.
A. J. Roach was born and raised in Scott County, Virginia -- The cultural and geographical epicenter of America's Appalachian Mountain Range, and the birthplace of American country music. Since leaving home at the age of 17, A. J. has travelled the world writing, recording and performing his music. This relentless touring schedule has paid off. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Award. His second full length album reached the #1 spot on both the European-Americana chart in Europe and the Folk and Roots chart in America. In addition, A. J. has had a number of his songs featured in American film and television. As great as the recordings are, nothing compares to seeing A. J. in a live setting. His performances are so powerful that it is commonplace for audience members to be moved to tears. The Glasgow Herald had this to say about one of Roach's recent performances: "Roach took the audience packed into the estimable Fallen Angels Club, on a backwoods travelogue that was virtually a masterclass in illustrating how much sophistication goes into creating so-called primitive music."
Ian Thomas Parks originally hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He left at age 16 and struck out on his own to San Francisco where he was a driving force behind that city's underground music scene in the mid-90s. He was a founding member of The Rosemarys, who along with The Brian Jonestown Massacre were among the most popular bands in San Francisco's mid-90s underground dreampop scene. At the turn of the century Ian relocated to Seattle, Washington where he formed the band, An American Starlet. This project moved away from the 'shoegazing' sound of The Rosemarys and effortlessly blended 50s rock'n' roll, 60s folk and 90s grunge with American roots music. The result, 'The Dutchess of Hazard', was stunning and the band soon found themselves charting in the top 15 of both the Americana and the Folk and Roots charts and playing festivals across America. Ian now lives in Los Angeles where he spends his time producing and engineering records in his Frogtown studio. In fact, he produced and engineered A. J.'s latest record 'Revelation'.
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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.
The Medicine Show Broadcasts the Second Wednesday Of The Month on UKCountryRadio.com and every Wednesday on www.nevisradio.co.uk Broadcasting Health and Happiness From The Highlands Of Scotland www.themedicineshow.eu .
Frequencies and channel numbers
FM: 102.3 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Skye & Mallaig)
FM: 102.4 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Loch Leven)
FM: 96.6 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Fort William)
FM: 97.0 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Glencoe)
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.
Here is the play list for UKCountryradio.com show (In conjunction with The AF Collective Radio
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
Here is the podcast enjoy
Rob Ellen
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