Each month guitar picker and Webmaster
Bob Howe brings you the latest Country Music happenings on the
Internet."Celebrity Surfer"
- www.compassbros.com.au
This is the Web site of my record label. Here you will find pages on Adam Brand, Brendon Walmsley, Michael Carr, Red Rivers and myself. I often look up this site to see where my fellow stable mates are performing around Australia and the site also includes some of our favourite links!
- www.holidayingwithdogs.com.au
This site is really handy if you own a dog and want to take him or her away with you. There are some great suggestions of B & B's, hotels, motels and camping sites that are all dog friendly. This is my kind of holiday! I have 2 black Kelpie/Lab crosses, sisters Rosie and Daisy. Perhaps you saw us all on TV's Harry's Practice?
- www.dreamcoach.com.au
If you believe that your dreams have hidden meanings, then this site is for you. I am quite into that sort of thing, so whenever I have an unusual dream I look it up on this site. Fascinating stuff!
- telstra.com/countrywide/countrymusic
This has been such a popular site of late. There are some really cool interviews by all of your favourite country music artists, as well as competitions and live performances. Very cool!
- www.sassandbide.com This is my favourite fashion label at the moment. I absolutely swear by their jeans (well not in front of my mother, ha ha). But seriously, they have a very funky yet classic denim range that I love. Check it out and let's go shopping!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing with us Melinda. Great choices from a beautiful, fashionable, pet-loving singer who knows that dreams can come true.
Until next month, happy surfing!
Don't forget to listen out for cyberBob each month on the radio waves with Belinda Miller of Murri Country, 4AAA (98.9 FM in Brisbane) and Barbara Morison on 2SER (107.3 FM in Sydney and on the Web).
ROAD TO NASHVILLE
The AV Channel / Umbrella Entertainment
Originally released in 1967, this movie features comic actor Doodles Weaver as Colonel Beetlebomb, reminiscent of the goofball character (Professor Feitlebaum) he played in his days with Spike Jones' band. His movie producer boss sends him to Nashville to sign up talent for an upcoming feature on Country Music. This slender plot is just an excuse to show us 38 songs, mostly by legendary Country stars and a few lesser-known acts.
Marty Robbins kicks off the music and features heavily throughout (he was also an Associate Producer of the movie). Check out the fashions: Porter Wagoner in his flashy Nudie suit, the spangled Hank Snow and Connie Smith in a metallic lame jumpsuit and bouffant hairdo. Some of the performances are notable for their rarity: Kitty Wells and her show, Webb Pierce, 'Pretty Miss Norma Jean' (who Wagoner would soon replace in his show with Dolly Parton) and a young clean shaven Waylon Jennings singing Anita, You're Dreaming. Watch too for the unforgettable performances by The Stoneman Family with a hyperactive Donna on mandolin while Pop Stoneman keeps time in his rocking chair.
There are also several moments that make this a 'must see': Lefty Frizzell singing I Love You A Thousand Ways, the Osborne Brothers' rolling Up This Hill and Down, and Johnny Cash with the Carter Family and Where You There (When They Crucified My Lord). A wonderful time capsule of mid-sixties Nashville.
TRACK LISTING:
Umbrella Entertainment DAVID0082 (88 Mins)
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