Karl is from Somerset in the south west of England and has always been surrounded by music. But it’s only since driving Route 66 back in October 2014 that he developed an ear for all things country due to stations like KTTS & KIXX Country providing the soundtrack for over 2,448 miles of the mother […]
Hey Y’all, I am the original UK BigDawg, taking my nickname from one of my most favorite, if sometimes controversial, country Music Artists Toby Keith. I got into Country Music in a big way in 2006, when my best friend the Kernow Cowboy gave me a compilation album of some country music to listen to. […]
Peter Fairhead is a native of Chelmsford who moved to West Yorkshire as long ago as 1980. By then, life after grammar school had seen him working in Road Safety, then selling Mars bars, Rothmans cigarettes and finally Memorex cassettes. A member of Hospital Radio Chelmsford since aged 14, Peter’s enthusiasm for music took him […]
Two of my fellow presenters on UKCountryRadio.com are responsible for my love of country music – Graham L.Hall and Bob Preedy. It was while filing away records at a hospital radio station in the early 1990s where Graham was presenting that I stumbled across the music, he encouraged me to tune in to Bob’s show […]
Originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Graham L.Hall is based in Yorkshire. He has been a semi-professional musician since the 1960s playing, in the UK and abroad, rock, blues, R&B, M.O.R, and, after hearing a Waylon Jennings track, country music from the late 1970s. Graham has played in various bands, travelling across the UK and also into Ireland, […]
From the top of Manhattan to the top of the charts, James brings you all the hottest country hits – and a few classics. Expect a show with nothing but the finest music – plus the incisive commentary of a presenter equally versed in York and New York. With a growing army of Gordons, living […]
I think I have always been a fan of country music not necessarily realising that it was ‘country music’. I used to follow the pop charts religiously when I was younger and looking back now the songs I bought/liked were for their story-telling more than anything else. I have been a fan of ‘new’ country […]
Richard was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1951. His interests include walking, running, tennis, cycling, radio, computers and the internet, travel, DIY and tasting single malts! Richard’s interest in radio began in the early 60’s when his parents bought him a small transistor radio which came with the unusually named “Flying Bomb” 9 volt […]
I started listening to Country Music in the 1950s on AFN. I ran Keith Fordyce’s Fan Club for a number of years while he was on Radio Luxembourg and we remained good friends for 53 years until his untimely death. When Radio Caroline North was broadcasting in the 1960s I was Fan Club Secretary for […]
I’ve always had a great love of country music all my life – all the different styles and genres from the 1920’s recordings of Jimmie Rogers right up to the latest offerings from Florida Georgia Line and all that went between. I have had the privilege of meeting and working with so many of the […]
