An alternative (and occasional) music posting highlighting something out of the ordinary. Perhaps of limited appeal, unconventional, experimental or just far-out ! Call it what you like (or switch it off, if you don't like).
Here's a good story:
About two weeks ago we booked into our airbnb accommodation in a town called Thames (roughly 120km east of Auckland on the Coromandel peninsula).
The contact there was a Bruce Greaves, who his profile said was a builder... among other professions, as it turned out.
Margaret got chatting to him and he asked her if she liked Country & Western music as he was a singer, adding modestly "google me" ! Naturally that's what we did. Briefly:
"Bruce Greaves (Actor, Extra, Model, Singer, Guitarist) is the eldest son of the iconic Rusty Greaves (one of 10 sons actually!). Bruce has cut his teeth as a country singer in a great family whose tradition is country. A huge voice, including the ability to yodel gives Bruce that authentic kiwi Country sound. Also has his own building Co. - building new houses and doing renovations"
About two weeks ago we booked into our airbnb accommodation in a town called Thames (roughly 120km east of Auckland on the Coromandel peninsula).
The contact there was a Bruce Greaves, who his profile said was a builder... among other professions, as it turned out.
Margaret got chatting to him and he asked her if she liked Country & Western music as he was a singer, adding modestly "google me" ! Naturally that's what we did. Briefly:
"Bruce Greaves (Actor, Extra, Model, Singer, Guitarist) is the eldest son of the iconic Rusty Greaves (one of 10 sons actually!). Bruce has cut his teeth as a country singer in a great family whose tradition is country. A huge voice, including the ability to yodel gives Bruce that authentic kiwi Country sound. Also has his own building Co. - building new houses and doing renovations"
(None of this was known to me) Click here for the full story. And here for Rusty Greaves the first overseas singer at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
Bruce gave us a few CDs (which are available on Amazon and Spotify). Listening to him he certainly likes a ballad or two (a la Jim Reeves) and also does a very passable Johnny Cash. Yet the best thing is he has a very good backing band, so lots of nice pedal steel guitar, fiddle and banjo going on.
There was a Country music festival in town that weekend, which we couldn't stay for but having heard some of the tracks over the internet we said we'd spread the word. Consider that done ✓.
But I haven't mentioned his big international hit - "number two on international charts" Bruce said, called 'Travelin' Man'. It's on YouTube (basically a video of him looking cool in his hat, playing over a backing track) a song written by Nashville hit songwriter Tommy Barnes, and here it is:
Bruce gave us a few CDs (which are available on Amazon and Spotify). Listening to him he certainly likes a ballad or two (a la Jim Reeves) and also does a very passable Johnny Cash. Yet the best thing is he has a very good backing band, so lots of nice pedal steel guitar, fiddle and banjo going on.
There was a Country music festival in town that weekend, which we couldn't stay for but having heard some of the tracks over the internet we said we'd spread the word. Consider that done ✓.
But I haven't mentioned his big international hit - "number two on international charts" Bruce said, called 'Travelin' Man'. It's on YouTube (basically a video of him looking cool in his hat, playing over a backing track) a song written by Nashville hit songwriter Tommy Barnes, and here it is:
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| CD recorded in Nashville ! |
Bruce Greaves also has songs listed on:
www.numberonemusic.com/brucegreaves
Definitely well worth 2.49 minutes of your time is the Country Rock 'Cold Night in Wanaka'
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