ACSS 378 Tuesday 3/8/21

Hi Folks,

I hope you can join me for another Australian Country Songwriters Show on Tuesday 3/8/21 with more great music from independent Australian country songwriters.

We have new (to the show) music this week from: Adventures With Alice: Alice Benfer; Alice Skye; Amy Pegg; Cassidy-Rae; Clelia Adams; Crystal Robins; Elisha Francesca; Riley Catherall; Runaway Dixie; The Silverline; The Water Runners; and Warren Kearney.

Our Top 10 Most Requested Songs for this week are: 1. Justin Landers, I Can’t Drink You Off My Mind 2. Destiny Band Oz, It’s A Shame; 3. Brett Reid, Girl From The Bay; 4. Shelly Jones Band and Watling & Bates, If You Knew What You Know; 5. Lance Birrell, Tomorrow; 6. Paula Standing, Better Not To Know; 7. Tony Kennelly, Wasted Time; 8. Dan Higgins feat. Tim Higgins, Make Love Enough; 9. Kylie Ryan, For The First Time; and 10. Vanessa Bourne, Haggard In The Air.

Our Featured Artist, NT singer/songwriter, Crystal Robins, has a new EP release called Wildfire, and we’ll be playing three tracks from the EP, in the second hour of the show.

Our Flashback Track from the show’s 2015 play list will be from Stuart Parnell Hall; our Featured Instrumental will be from Rhys Warner; our Featured International Artist will be NZ country singer, Don Smythe; and our Featured Indigenous Artists will be Alice Skye.

Our Emerging Talent segment will feature songs from Elisha Francesca; Lily Grace with James Blundell; and Jem Cassar-Daley.

Our Country Ballads segment will feature songs from Brian Stitt; Ian Wilkinson; and Peter Smokie Dawson.

So, the play list will be:

First Hour: Kylie Gale; Lucy Pace; Vanessa Bourne; Dan Higgins feat. Tim Higgins; Brett Reid; Destiny Band Oz; Tony Kennelly; Lance Birrell; Shelly Jones Band and Watling & Bates; Justin Landers; Adventures With Alice; Andy Penkow; Amy Pegg; and Jason Vorherr.

Second Hour: Angus Gill; The Silverline; Susan Vandermark; Brendan McMahon; Crystal Robins (3 songs); Matt Ward; The Water Runners; Sarah Leete; Stuart Parnell Hall; Rhys Warner; Don Smythe; and Alice Skye.

Third Hour: Lucie Tiger; Steve Cheers & Cowpoke; Eric Read; Elisha Francesca; Lily Grace & James Blundell; Jem Cassar-Daley; Runaway Dixie; Riley Catherall; Cassidy-Rae; Brian Stitt; Ian Wilkinson; Peter Smokie Dawson; Alice Benfer; Warren Kearney; Clelia Adams; and Michelle Little.

I hope you can join me on Tuesday 3/8/2021 from 6.00 pm on TodaysCountry94one 94.1 FM (Central Coast NSW), and later on our broadcast partners, 2 Air FM 107.9 (Coffs Harbour NSW); Seymour FM 103.9 (Seymour VIC); 7 Mid FM 97.1 (Oatlands TAS); EMFM 104.7 (Echuca VIC); 7 TAS FM 97.7 (Port Arthur TAS); and Radio Adelaide FM 101.5 (Adelaide SA).

And, don’t forget to vote for your favourite song(s)! To vote, just private message me via the ACSS Facebook page.

And, if you’re a country songwriter, please send your songs through for me to have a listen to. Just email or Dropbox me at alan.gilmour@bigpond.com.

Thanks,

Alan.