In The Country with Dave Woods

STEVE WARINER has hit the #1 spot on Country radio 14 times with hits like The Weekend, Small Town Girl, Life's Highway & Holes In The Floor Of Heaven. He's also written hit songs for other artists like Garth Brooks (Longneck Bottle), Keith Urban (Where The Blacktop Ends) & Clint Black (Nothin' But The Taillights). Steve has won 4 Grammy awards, 4 CMA awards, is a member of the Grand Ole O...

With the release of her debut solo album Stronger Now in 2012 - produced by Grammy & Juno Award Winning Producer Kevin Doyle - SARAH SMITH proved that she is in fact stronger than ever. A London, Ontario native, Sarah earned national recognition with her rock band The Joys who achieved certified GOLD status, charted nationally on College Radio in 2009 & 2010 and won Best Rock Act at the Ja...

LEE GREENWOOD has quite a list of hit songs including Ring on Her Finger (Time on Her Hands), It Turns Me Inside Out, Somebody’s Gonna Love You, Holdin’ A Good Hand, I Don’t Mind the Thorns (If You’re The Rose), She’s Lyin', and Dixie Road. He has won numerous industry awards including Male Vocalist of the Year from the Academy of Country Music in 1983, two Male Vocalist of the Year awards from th...

GARRETT WALKER'S mom and dad were both singers and musicians. When he was a very young child they would often take him to gigs with them. He'd hang out in the back room and listen to the show - breathing in the music like air. After the break up of his parents at age 8, his life changed forever, and he uses his songs to paint the pictures of his journey since - songs about love and pain, hope and...

Winnipeg, Manitoba Country artist LEANNE PEARSON's current single & video is called Get Outta My Heart - and it's a hard one to get out of your head once you hear it. It's the second release from her debut album Serendipity. The project was produced by Bart McKay. There are no boundaries for this female Country rocker, who is not afraid to play songs by male artists like Trace Adkins, Jason Al...

Canadian Country artist CHARLIE MAJOR'S songs celebrate the blue collar hero the way Springsteen and other roots rock artists do but it's the Country music format that Charlie calls home. He started sending songs up the charts in the mid-nineties - hits like I'm Gonna Drive You Out Of My Mind, Tell Me Something I Don't Know, It Can't Happen To Me & For The Money. In addition to radio & vid...

Born in Montreal, Quebec, PATRICIA CONROY was raised in a strong musical environment, influenced by the French culture, her mother’s Maritime country background and her father’s Irish roots. She credits her early years of performing with her family band, singing in church, and the always visiting musical guests in her home, as being her real musical training. “There was always a fiddle, accordion...

CRYSTAL SHAWANDA'Scountry roots run deep. Born Native American, she was automatically Country - joined to the land and the real stories of everyday people. To Native Americans, music is everything. It’s their history, their dance, and used to remember and to forget. It’s a way to celebrate life and mourn death. At 12, she accompanied her truck-driver father on a long haul to the southern United St...

Born and raised in London, Ontario, TANYA MARIE HARRIS grew up listening to a variety of music genres. She recalls her mother always listening to Patsy Cline while doing the housework - then cranking up the radio for The Eagles or AC/DC in the car. Tanya wrote her first song at just 8 years of age called More Than I Can Stand. She remembers the exact moment she fell in love with Country music: She...

Ottawa-based Country artist & teen hearthrob JORDAN MCINTOSH is making a big name for himself through great performances at various venues this summer and through his singles at radio - and his videos. By now you've probably heard Walk Away, Let Me Love You & his latest Grew Up In A Country Song. Music is his passion and he's pursuing it with 100% determination. “I obviously had a dream of...

Toronto-based Country singer/songwriter MIKE BUTLER is making all the right moves in launching his music career. For his first ever recording experience, he headed to state-of-the-art Toronto facility Noble Street Studios with Juno-nominated producer/keyboardist Doug Romanow and an all-star cast of players. This is contemporary Country music full of heart, soul, high energy, and an upbeat sense of...

Fourteen year-old Barrie, Ontario Country singer/songwriter TORI HATHAWAY released her first EP in July 2013. The project was produced by Doug Romanow at Noble Street Studios in Toronto. A self-motivated artist who has written over 100 songs so far, Tori is actively participating in songwriting rounds in Toronto, Oakville and the GTA. Additionally, she has performed in over 200 live performances,...

Toronto-based Country singer/songwriter MIKE BUTLER is making all the right moves in launching his music career. For his first ever recording experience, he headed to state-of-the-art Toronto facility Noble Street Studios with Juno-nominated producer/keyboardist Doug Romanow and an all-star cast of players. This is contemporary Country music full of heart, soul, high energy, and an upbeat sense of...

This special presentation of In The Country with Dave Woods features interviews - and music - with Michelle Wright, Beverley Mahood, Patricia Conroy & Carolyn Dawn Johnson. On Saturday, August 10th in Exeter, Ontario, these four ladies of Canadian Country Music (and beyond) shared the stage to play their hits in an acoustic concert. Interviews on this show are past highlights from previous int...

WILL ARDELL grew up on a farm in Rock Point, Saskatchewan, amidst a strict, religious, and modest upbringing. He began writing poetry at a young age, placing first in a national competition and later placing internationally in his teens. Due to the confines of the religious culture in which he was raised, Will did not learn to play guitar until he was 19 years of age. Fast forward to present: He w...

The Magna Hoedown Showdown is a talent competition that takes place September 6th through 8th at Aurora's Ribfest in Aurora, Ontario. The 1st place winner of the Hoedown Showdown will receive $1000 in cash, a guitar of their choice from Yamaha worth $1000 AND a performance at the 25th Annual Magna Wild Wild West Hoedown on September 14th in Aurora. All proceeds go to various charities and non-prof...

Ontario's AMY ROSE & Saskatchewan's J.J. VOSS join me on this one hour Double Shot of Country episode. Amy has had a warm welcome at Country radio with her single I Just Want You To Know. And now she has just released her new single Sunshine. J.J. is releasing a new single from his cleverly titled album Show 'Em Who's Voss. The song is called Breakin' Things. Tune in and get up close & per...

This episode features a double shot of Country -  Colin Amey & Kaitlin Kozell! COLIN AMEY has just released a brand new 5 song EP called Just Do What You Do. It features his version of the Kim Mitchell classic Go For A Soda. Colin has recorded several albums with successful radio singles and is a popular entertainer who knows how to write a hit. Country fans will recall his songs What My Heart...

Ontario Country artist GRAHAM TRUDE is an avid outdoorsman who shares his love of life through his music and passion for his country through his lyrics. He developed a love of Country music at a young age, listening to the songs of Brooks 'n Dunn, Garth Brooks and various artists who made a lasting impact on him. It wasn't long before he began writing and performing his own music. As a hard-core p...

THE BOOM CHUCKA BOYS have a knack for walking the fine line between many musical stylings. A whole lot of Country, with a splash of rock n’ roll. Then sprinkle in some gospel, and a little bit of soul. Heavily inspired by all eras of music, they pull from the likes of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, CCR, The Band, Dwight Yoakam, Dierks Bentley, and the Zac Brown Band. Front man Ryan Langlois’ stage pr...

Sasktatchewan's JAY SEMKO's latest radio single released to Country radio is called Harmony which is featured on his Sending Love album. As a member of the Northern Pikes (inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2012), Jay was part of the hit singles which include Teenland, Things I Do for Money, She Ain't Pretty, Girl With A Problem, and Kiss Me You Fool. The band received 8 Juno...

JAMES CAMERON is the front man for the James Cameron Band - an up & coming Country band from South Western Ontario. After joining together in 2011, James and the band have found themselves in the midst of the Canadian country music scene. Soon after, James and the crew took the stage at Music in the Fields in Lucknow, Ontario. As voted by the public, they found themselves coming out on top of...

MICHELLE WRIGHT's long-anticipated new album Strong will be released on July 9, 2013. The album, featuring her latest single Strong, is Michelle's first release of original material in seven years. The video for the title track - which she co-wrote with Deric Ruttan and Melissa Pierce - has been added to CMT Canada's playlist. Recorded in Ontario and Nashville, the album was produced by Jason Barr...

Along with 4 CCMAs (Canadian Country Music Awards) and the 2011 title of Alberta's Country Music Association’s Male Artist of the Year, SHANE CHISHOLM has released 2 CDs: Hitchhiking Buddha in 2009 and No One Came in 2012.   From those 2 albums, he has released 12 radio singles with top 40 success in Canada and top 20 on the Australian charts. If you get out to see Shane in concert, you will get t...

Vernon, British Columbia Country artist RAQUEL WARCHOL has a lot to celebrate in 2013. Her song Leaving Home (co-written with Cody Fry) placed in the Top 30 of the Music City Songwriting Competition in Nashville. Judges this year included Little Big Town and hit songwriter Tim Nichols. Plus -USA Today picked one of her songs for their exclusive weekly Playlist (5/13/13). The song Gone recorded by...