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Yesterday afternoon I went to the Wynnum Fringe to see the legendary Australian country singer James Blundell which it was my first time seeing him live ever. Caught the bus from Cannon Hill to Wynnum, Had Pizza Sub and Salad Roll for lunch from Subway, had a look at Op Shop, walk to the Wynnum Fringe, went inside the Augathella Spiegeltent and waited. The show started at 3pm with James coming out with his son Briar on guitar and for the next hour and 5 minutes performed songs from the latest album as well as his 2 90's hits This Road and Way Out West as well as doing songs by Neil Young, Slim Dusty and Pink Floyd as well as telling stories including his son playing him songs that he knew including Richard Clapton as well as Slim Dusty story and hearing Bruce Springsteen as well as Brair sang lead on a few songs too as well as playing great guitar. The show finished at 4.05pm, went outside, James came out, got photos with him, caught bus back to Cannon Hill, caught bus to Carina w...

This is from the Telegraph July 9th 1954 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane in 2026 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which besides from doing music the station also did other shows including quiz as among the shows was the Ampol Show with the host Jack Davey who was a big name on radio at the time which was the show was on at 8pm with Brisbane Contestants.

This is part 3 of the 4 part autobiography of legendary Australian rock singer Lonnie Lee and this covers the period between 1971-83 when Lonnie lived in America which he talks about living in Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Nashville, doing songwriting with Roy Orbison, touring Australia, Producing an TV show there, booking acts, encounters with Ray Charles, Mickey Stevenson from Motown, David Bowie, Fabian, Johnny O'Keefe and Reg Lindsay, peforming shows there and many others. It is AWESOME, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT stories as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it well worth a read. Lonnie is still performing shows as he has shows coming up in NSW, Victoria and South Australia which I hope he will come to Queensland again soon and he is the last man standing from the 1st wave of Australian rock of those who are performing today as he should be considered for the ARIA Hall of Fame for the impact he has made on Australian rock. As I a...

This is from the Queensland Times Ipswich July 7th 1967 and until 1992 when it became 4TAB which it is now Radio TAB 4IP was one of Brisbane's popualr radio stations at the time in the 60's which was at the time it was based in Ipswich but it was making a impact in Brisbane at the time which among their disc jockeys was David Greenwood who was on Monday to Friday from 4pm until 7pm which there was an competition that was on at the time which was called Name and Claim It and also David Greenwood hosted the Brisbane music show Countdown on Channel 0 in that year of 1967.

This is the new album by legendary American country singer Willie Nelson and it was recorded in Nashville with the songs which 6 written by Willie all co written with Buddy Cannon who produced the album as well as Buddy writing 2 as well as Mickey Raphael who plays harmonica with Willie wrote one and Earl Montogmery wrote one and besides from Mickey Raphael among the musicians who played on the album including Fred Eltringham on drums and percussion from the Wallflowers, Tommy White on Steel guitar, Bobby Terry on Acoustic Guitar and James Mitchell on electric guitar. It is FANTASTIC with great songs with great singing by Willie who is still sounding great at age 93 and the album went to number 46 in the UK, number 13 in the UK Americana Album charts, number 5 in the UK Country charts and number 35 in the USA Top Album Sales charts. Willie is doing shows in the USA throughout this month, August and September and this is a must for Willie Nelson fans which I give it 4 stars as it...

This is from the Courier Mail July 6th 1960 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys were Bill O'Brien who had done a stint on 4KQ was on from 4.15pm until 5pm doing the National Top Fourty with the Big Sound and Peter McIntyre was on from 7.30pm until 8pm doing Club Celebrity which had people like the Kingston Trio, Jerry Vale and Dodie Stevens.