Tamworth award nominees to be featured

The program for Thursday 22nd Jan will feature some of the tracks nominated for Golden Guitar awards --

Bittersweet (Kasey Chambers)

Sing you up (Luke O'Shea)

and much more

Ausmusic month

November is Ausmusic month on Triple J and 3WAY-FM's Cosmic Cowboys comes out in support with an all Australian presentation. Here's what to expect on Thursday 20th November

Dust Will Settle -- Sunny Cowgirls
Scrub Turkey -- Davidson Brothers
Monkey on a wire -- Kasey chambers and Shane Nicholson
Take that train -- Pete Fidler
Southern Style:-- Mustered Courage
Old man on a barstool -- Dead Livers
Way out West/ Boy on the run -- Dingoes
Genie In The Bottle -- Adam Harvey
Man I Can Train -- Tasha
Loving arms -- Lost in Suburbia
Wintersong -- Country Radio
Angela -- Missy Higgins
Lighthouse -- Waifs
That Won't Work On Me -- Kayla Dwyer
That All There Is -- Kaylens Rain
Grew Up Country -- Sami Cooke
Bad and the beautiful -- Rod Dowsett
Black River Swamp -- Bonafide Travellers
The Ballad of 1891 -- The Bushwackers
Captain Thunderbolt -- The Perch Creek Familly Jugband
She's My Ute -- Lee Kernaghan
A Place to Hide --Tex, Don & Charlie
Get along -- Slim Dusty
Get along -- Don Walker
Beware Of Bandits -- Van Walker
Murray River --T-BONES

Coming up Thurs July 10th

Chris Blackberry tells of a  forthcoming event at Noorat featuring Kayla Dwyer, Trevor Keilar and others

The Mavericks tour announced -- hear "All you ever do is bring me down"

On this day we'll play "No-one else on earth" by Wynonna Judd (married July 10 2012), "Crying" by Carrie Underwood (Grand old opry debut July 10 2005), "Busted" by John Conlee (the writer, Harlan Howard added to the National songwriters Hall of Fame" July 10 1997, "A better man by Clint Black" (Number one on the country chart July 10 1998), "I drive your truck"  by Lee Brice (born July 10 1978), and "Georgia on my mind" by Willie Nelson (number one July 10 1978).

Also new releases by Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, Robert Ellis, The Felice Bros, Sturgill Simpson, First Aid Kit, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rosanne Cash, and Nikki Lane (pictured below)

It's Gretchen Wilson's birthday!

Tune in to 3WAY FM at 8.00 tonight to hear "Redneck woman" in honour of Gretchen Wilson's birthday

Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman", a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. 

Also -- hear news on  Tracey McNeil's up-coming performance at the Loft on July 5th

all the gigs for the coming weekend and a forthcoming event at Noorat featuring Tim Farren, Kayla Dwyer and Trevor Keilar

June 5th 2014 program

It's exactly 12 months since Miranda Lambert secured two awards at the CMT Music awards -- tune in to hear her track "Makin' plans"

Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert

Its songwriter Brett James' birthday -- listen to his song "Jesus take the wheel" by Carrie Underwood. Written by Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in October 2005 as the second single from Underwood's debut album Some Hearts.The ballad tells of a woman seeking help from Jesus in an emergency, ultimately letting Jesus take control of her life. The Country-Christian song became a crossover hit, spending time at number one on the Country chart as well as peaking at number four on the Hot Christian Songs chart.The song ranked number four on CMT's 40 Greatest Songs of the Decade.

We'll be spinning "Flowers on the wall" in honour of Don Reid's birthday (June 5th ), Donald Sidney "Don" Reid (born 1945 in Staunton, Virginia) is the retired lead singer and main songwriter of the American country music vocal group, The Statler Brothers.He wrote or co-wrote 40 of the Statler Brothers' 66 songs that made the Billboard country chart, including the No. 1 hit "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine." He did not write "Flowers on The Wall" (composed by the group's original tenor, Lew DeWitt), but the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, and reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction and as the title theme of the 2001-2002 BBC Radio 4 sitcom Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting.

8th May 2014 - Rick Nelson, Chris Blackberry

Today (8th May) Rick Nelson was born in 1940. Tune in to 3WAY from  8.00 pm to hear "Garden Party" and some info on his life.

Also -- special guest Chris Blackberry

Sami Cooke live

Tune in tonight ( 8 pm 6th March 2014) for an interview with and performance by Sami Cooke who will be appearing in Koroit on Saturday (Commercial Hotel)

Also -- some Port Fairy Folk Festival previews

And -- Bob Wills was born on 6th March 1905  Kosse, Texas. He was a leading figure in western swing, launching such material as "Stay A Little Longer," "Faded Love" and "San Antonio Rose." He is a member  the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Photos of Sami Cooke at 3WAY-FM