Bob Harris has been a longtime champion of country music, including UK country acts such as The Shires and The Wandering Hearts. He hosts Bob Harris Country on Radio 2 ...
In the new issue of Music Week, we deliver a huge Nashville special. As part of our coverage, we mark the return of country superstar Kacey Musgraves with our world ...
A good country song needs…
“Three chords and the truth – although it is a cliché, it’s true. That’s what country music has been based on: songs that tell the ...
The image of country music has undergone a remarkable facelift outside the US since the turn of the century. What was once considered a strictly American passion has gone global ...
In the new issue of Music Week, we catch up with record-breaking UK country stars The Shires as part of our Nashville special. Last year they cemented their reputation as ...
Ironically enough, The Shires are hard at work on theirthird album in Sony/ATV’s Nashville studio when Music Week rudely interrupts them to, er, find out how it’scoming along.
It doesn’t ...
Niall Horan, The Shires, J Hus and Orbital are among the acts to be added to the line-up for BBC Music’s The Biggest Weekend.
The four-day festival is staged ...
The relationship between television shows and music has always constituted something of a mutually-beneficial holy matrimony.
Long before TV entered its modern golden era via the vaulting cinematic ambitions of ...
Rebecca Allen is on tenterhooks. The interview to celebrate her coronation as this year’s Music Week Women In Music Businesswoman Of The Year coincides with one of the closest chart ...
Decca boss Rebecca Allen has pledged to turn the veteran label into a “global music entertainment business” after her promotion to president of Decca Records Group UK.
Allen steps up ...
