SCOTCOUNTRY MUSIC NEWS

Stewart Fenwick presented his first Country music programme on November 22nd 1980 on Radio Airthrey at Stirling University. The student run radio station, the only one of its kind in Scotland at the time, broadcast from studios in the basement of Airthrey Castle. It’s from there that Stewart presented “Campus Country” every week, during semester, until 1988, until he ended the programme with a 24 hour marathon broadcast. 
He then spent 15 years at Central FM, before joining Glasgow based Celtic Music Radio in 2006, where he’s presented “Celtic Country” ever since. This Sunday, Stewart will look ck at his 40 years on Country music radio with a special programme, featuring a number of interview excerpts from the past, including Kathy Mattea, George Hamilton IV, The Osmond Brothers, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Robin Lee, Marty Stuart and Shania Twain, as well as a few tracks he played on that first programme.
Celtic Country is broadcast on Celtic Music Radio on Sunday 12 Noon-2pm (same time slot as that very first programme, albeit that was a Saturday), on 95FM and DAB across Glasgow, and online @ celticmusicradio.net as well as streaming services & smart speakers.  The programme is also carried by Dunoon Community on 97.4FM and online @ riverradio.co.uk.  The programme is also available anytime on the Listen again page @ celticmusicradio.net. 
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Stewart has been recording his programmes at home in Clackmannan over the past eight months, but looks forward to getting back into the Glasgow studios before too long. Stewart has another couple of milestone anniversaries coming up. In January 2021, it’ll be 15 years since his first Celtic Music Radio programme, and, in June 2021, it’ll be 40 years since his first visit to Nashville.

As part of Americana/ Bluegrass month - AcousticnightsONLINE presents the return of the fabulous Katee Kross and Ross Barron from the Amberjax this Friday 20th November at 8pm - click here FROM 8pm!
You can  make donations to Katee’s PayPal account link  @ www.paypal.me/kateekross. 
Katee Kross is a Glasgow based singer songwriter who has recently released her fourth album 'Show Your Hand' on the 22nd of February with the help of her awesome guitarist Ross Barron. Like so many musicians this year Katee had planned for a jam packed year with many gigs up and down the UK and even a 22 date tour of Germany but due to Covid19 all of these gig and the Germany tour have had to be either cancelled or rescheduled.  Katee has performed a couple of Drive In gigs in Bishopbriggs recently, but you can enjoy her intimate showcase at this week's Acoustic Night - on line.

Texas singer-songwriter Doug Supernaw, who topped the country charts in 1993-96, died Nov. 13, following a battle with cancer.
He is best known for “Reno” (1993), “I Don’t Call Him Daddy” (1993) and “Not Enough Hours in the Night” (1996). Supernaw, who was 60 when he passed, was nominated as the ACM’s New Male Artist of the Year and earned a Gold record for his Red and Rio Grande album in 1994.

In 2016, Doug Supernaw was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. 
Noted as a top songwriter as well as a good-time showman, Supernaw’s career was derailed by mental illness and substance abuse. But during the last few years of his life he fought to reclaim it.
In January 2019, he sought treatment for a persistent cough. His initial diagnosis was pneumonia, but subsequent tests revealed Stage IV cancer in his lungs and bladder. A bladder tumor was removed in March 2019
On Sunday, Oct. 18, his wife
posted on Facebook that her husband had been placed in home hospice care and that the cancer had spread to his brain and spine.

Who remembers Tower Records huge store on Glasgow's Argyle Street ?
Well, this will rekindle some memories of the music you bought there. 

Tower Records has relaunched as an online shop selling vinyl, CDs and cassettes, with a website that will also feature livestream concerts and a digital version of the company’s Tower Pulse! magazine. While there had been plans to offer pop-up stores during SXSW earlier this year, those plans were interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading Tower Records to relaunch as a virtual store.
Founder Russ Solomon opened the Tower Records chain in Sacramento, California in 1960. Over four decades the record retail chain grew to 200 stores around the world, before shuttering in 2006 (with the exception of Japanese locations). 

The legendary Charley Pride was honoured with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the CMA Awards on Nov. 11, also taking the stage to perform his hit song "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'." 
Pride said
that he appreciates receiving the Lifetime Achievement Awards "so greatly." "I get asked a lot of times what award I like the best," he reflected. "I mean, I've got so many, it's like asking me what song do I like the best when I'm singing. And this is the truth. What song do I love the most is the one I'm singing at the moment? So that's it. I'm going to put this with all the other awards and everything and be happy about having them. And I hope I can get some more, if that's possible, but I didn't come into this business to try to win awards, but I'll sure take them."
Pride was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1971 and Male Vocalist of the Year in 1971 and 1972 among numerous other accolades, including inductions into the Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Fame.

Some country icons who died this year were honored during the 2020 CMAs (including Kenny Rogers, Charlie Daniels, and Mac Davis), but three icons went unmentioned during the broadcast: John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver. In protest, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have announced that they’re returning their lifetime membership cards to the Country Music Association. The Country Music Association offered the following comment:
The CMA Awards broadcast historically does not include an In Memoriam segment. An In Memoriam did air in 2017 to honor the victims of the tragic shooting at Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. In order to recognize those we have lost each year, the CMA does include an In Memoriam tribute on our website and in our annual CMA Awards Program Guide, which was mailed to CMA members ahead of this year's broadcast. To note, this year's In Memoriam includes those lives lost prior to the program guide’s printing deadline of October 14, 2020.

 “THE 54th ANNUAL CMA AWARDS” WINNERS:
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR   -  Eric Church
SINGLE OF THE YEAR   -  “The Bones” – Maren Morris
ALBUM OF THE YEAR   -  What You See Is What You Get – Luke Combs
SONG OF THE YEAR  - “The Bones”   -  Songwriters: Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins, Laura Veltz
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR  - Maren Morris
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR  -Luke Combs
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR  - Old Dominion
VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR  - Dan + Shay
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR  - “I Hope You’re Happy Now” – Carly Pearce and Lee Brice
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR  - Jenee Fleenor, Fiddle
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR  - “Bluebird” – Miranda Lambert
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR - Morgan Wallen

See the acceptance speeches on the CMA website.