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Cotswold Country 4th February 2012

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This week on Cotswold Country we feature an album by an artist who has topped the US charts in the last few weeks and is currently no 8 in the Billboard Country charts .

David Nail's album "The Sound of a million dreams " was released in the UK on 12th December 2011 on the Humphead Country label (humpheadcountry.com )and includes his no 1 hit, a duet with Sarah Buxton  "Let it rain " 

We take our


Cotswold Country 28th January 2012

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This week on Cotswold Country we have a very special guest talking to us on the telephone from his home in Brighton  .

At around 12.30pm Jim Marshall a stalwart of Country Music in the UK for over 40 years and not only a founder of the British Country Music Association but also producer and presenter of BBC 's Radio Brighton Country music show for many years  will be giving us the lowdown on how


Cotswold Country 21st January 2012

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This week on Cotswold Country we feature an album which we reviewed in June last year "Randy Travis 25th Anniversary ". It is such a great album and features many of todays top stars in duets with Randy and is really worth a second look .

As usual we take our regular look at the US charts at around 12.15pm and then at around 1.00pm the easy listening segment features two tracks from Randy Travis


Cotswold Country 14th January 2012

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This week on Cotswold Country we conclude our look at 2011 by featuring the artists and albums we have featured on the programme from July to December .

Also at around 12.15pm we take our weekly look at the USA charts and then at around 1.00pm the  easy listening segment features four tracks  one each from Billy Ray Cyrus and The Courtyard Hounds and two from our featured guest in the studio on


Cotswold Country 6th January 2012

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Hi

Sorry about the revised programme last week . Sadly I had a very heavy cold and  lost my voice completely and we had to put out a pre recorded  programme at the last minute which I hope you found of interest .

This week we will be featuring the review of the year programme we had planned for last week .

Hope you will be able to join us for some if not all of Cotswold Country this Saturday


Cotswold Country 31st December 2011

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This week on Cotswold Country we will be featuring artists that have been  featured on the programme from January to July 2011 and then next week the second half of the year will be reviewed .

As usual we will also take a look at the USA charts at around 12.15pm and the easy listening at around 1.00pm , with the classic segment at around 1.30pm , all with the exception of the charts will feature


Cotswold Country 24th December 2011

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This week on Cotswold Country we celebrate the Christmas season with some wonderful Country Christmas tracks plus our usual segments including at around 12.15pm we take our weekly look at the USA Country charts , then at around 1.00pm the easy listening segment features four great country Christmas tracks.

But sadly we have to report the passing of one of our favourite country superstars of


Cotswold Country 17th December 2011

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This week on Cotswold Country we have as our featured artist one of the most consistently successful musicians in America and the fourth best selling artist in the US across all musical genres "Toby Keith ".

The Delux version of his latest album " Clancy's Tavern " named after his Grandmothers bar in Fort Smith Arkansas is a real beaut and we will not only be featuring most of the tracks in the


Cotswold Country 10th December 2011

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This week on Cotswold Country following the success of our look back at 1997 with the CMA Awards album ,we take a look at another album released in the same year and what a beauty it is .

Chely Wrights album " Let me in "  produced by the legendary producer Tony Brown (who produced the  latest chart topping album from George Strait "Here for the Good Times ) was released in 1997 and when I took


Cotswold Country 3rd December 2011

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This week on Cotswold Country we feature an artist who was nominated for the Female Vocalist of the year award at the recent CMA awards in Nashville .

Sadly Martina Mcbride  did not win but her new album "Eleven " released in early November is a real beaut and we will be playing as many tracks as we can from it during the programme .

At around 12.15pm we will be taking our weekly look at the US


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