British Country music Bands

Set that Stetson squarely on your mind and hitch up your cutoff jeans, we’re in for a country songs revival in the united kingdom come july 1st.

Spearheaded by the relatively brand new work the Shires, which became the first British nation band to-be contained in the top 10 albums in britain Official Charts, there’s significantly more than a nod to Nashville taking place at live songs venues and festivals up and down the country.

The Shires’ quick rise – these are the very first UK signing toward revived Decca Nashville label, house to nation songs movie stars such as for instance Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn – will be viewed as remarkable by industry insiders today scrabbling to meet up with the growing fascination with nation. Brave could be the group’s first album, taped in Tennessee’s Music City.

Final weekend a two-day nation music event on 02 arena in London was ablaze with broken-hearted lyrics and rootsy stomping music from US acts who will be huge back home but whoever names should be still reasonably not known to numerous here – headliners were Luke Bryan and trio woman Antebellum. However, the 50, 000-strong crowd recommended that desire for food for category keeps growing; seats for next year’s CountrytoCountry festival happen to be offering quickly since the occasion appears like becoming a yearly staple in Britain’s musical schedule.

Various other US huge names eg Taylor Swift and LeAnn Rimes have been taking country-style songs in to the pop maps, while Dolly Parton’s look on final year’s Glastonbury Pyramid stage ended up being a success that took even the organisers by surprise. But abandoning the Confederate flags and rhinestones are up-and-coming British nation functions, including youthful singer Sasha McVeigh, hitched couple Claire McArthur-Bain and Paul Bain of Glasgow’s Raintown, and Hampshire twin siblings Catherine and Lizzy of the duo Ward Thomas.

Ben Earle, just who formed the Shires with Crissie Rhodes lower than 2 yrs ago after marketing and advertising for a nation singer on Twitter, told the Observer that modern nation songs had anything a new comer to offer. He admits these were nervous regarding how a duo from Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire correspondingly would go-down in America, but says they've had only help and heat from United States country audiences as well as other bands.