In The Country with Dave Woods

Ontario Country artist ELYSE SAUNDERS organized and hosted a recent benefit called Warm Coats Warm Hearts. She'll tell us all about the event and share her new holiday single entitled Warm Christmas. Another song she'll share with us is from her debut album from a few years ago - the song is called Momma Hates Guitars. Elyse will update us on the progress of her new album scheduled for release in...

In The Country host Dave Woods talks with Country artist JAYME KNYX about his new music & latest news. Jayme has shared the stage with some big names in Country Music including Doc Walker, Jamie Warren, Aaron Pritchett & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. When he was 15 years old, his mother (who also bought him his first guitar when he was only 6) dared him to enter a singing contest. After winn...

In The Country host Dave Woods talks with Ontario Country artist TIANNA WOODS about her music career and new Christmas single. Tianna is trained in voice, acting, and dance (tap, hip hop, jazz, ballet and modern). She also plays 5 instruments piano, guitar, saxophone, drums and clarinet. While in Japan, performing the lead role in the musical Anne of Green Gables, Tianna also toured the schools wi...

After attending college on a basketball scholarship, Country artist BILLY DEAN moved to Nashville in 1983 and by 1990 had recorded his first Top 5 hit song (and video) Only Here For A Little While. He went on to the climb the charts & win awards with songs like Somewhere In My Broken Heart, Billy The Kid & You Don't Count The Cost. Throughout his career in Country music, Billy has sold ove...

There is a great burst of remarkable talent on the rise in the form of THE COMMAND SISTERS - an authentic, enchanting and compelling Canadian sister duo. Charlotte, 17, and Sarah, 14, are at the start of a great career. It didn’t take long for the girls to be opening up for the likes of some of the industry’s most prominent acts like Gord Bamford (at the tender ages of 11 and 14) and performing al...

CORY MARQUARDT made his debut on the acoustic scene in early 2011 after a couple years playing drums in local bands. He released his first album in March 2012 called First Time Around. This talented North Bay, Ontario Country artist has performed at the 27th annual Rodeo de Camion, opened for Marty Stuart at the Kipawa Countryfest, and rocked the Havelock Jamboree. Cory was named the 2012 Havelock...

Canadian Country artist BLAKE EMMONS has a long list of credits to his name. He hosted the CTV series Funny Farm back in the 1970s. Also in the 70s, he co-hosted the Nashville syndicated music show The Country Place with Jim Ed Brown. Blake went on to host the game show Chain Reaction and make appearances on shows like Alice, Mary Tyler Moore & The Golden Girls. Blake's latest album is called...

Nova Scotia Country artist AARON LEWIS has just released his CD entitled Discovering Gold which has been 5 years in the making. He joined the Carleton Show Band when he was nineteen and played piano for them, touring all over the world for seven years. During this time, he had the chance to work with and become friends with the likes of Randy Travis, Alabama and Waylon Jennings. Aaron's new album...

Ontario singer-songwriter CHASE STEVENS has recently returned from a songwriting trip to Nashville. He's a member of the NSAI and regularly performs in their events. Chase is here to share some of his songs and to talk about his start in music, his musical influences and about the art of songwriting. After a past trip to L.A. failed to produce a record deal, he left the music scene and focused on...

Alberta's PAUL BRANDT is the most awarded male Canadian Country Music artist in history. By the age of 21, he had been signed to a 7 album deal with Warner/Reprise Records Nashville, alongside label-mates Faith Hill, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam and more. By 1996, Paul had become the first Canadian male country artist to reach the Billboard Top Ten in the US since Hank Snow in 1974, and a string of...

When you think of Cowboys and Country music, the cold climate and frozen tundra of Alaska might just be the last place on earth that you would think of. But Alaska is exactly where DOUG BRINEY’s music career is heating up. With nominations for Most Promising New Artist at the 2012 ICMA awards and Indie Artist of the Year at the 2013 Southern Star Awards, this talented artist with the warm baritone...

ANDREW HELLER is a classically trained singer who appears with orchestras as varied as the Austin Symphony, the Philadelphia Philharmonic, and the iconic Western Swing band The Texas Playboys. He performs American and European popular music across the U.S., and is a two-time nominee for Entertainer of the Year by the Inspirational Country Music Association (2009 and 2010). Andrew is president of D...

Snowbird, You Needed Me, Could I Have This Dance & I Just Fall In Love Again are just a few of the many big hits sung by Canada's ANNE MURRAY. The numbers say it all: Over 4 decades, Anne has sold 54 million records, had 30 pop hits, 50 Country hits and has won 4 Grammy awards, 24 Juno awards and 3 CMA awards. In 2009, Anne released her revealing and entertaining autobiography All Of Me in whi...

Alberta Country artist EMILY SEAL was chosen as one of the Top 30 from across Canada to be featured on CMT's talent show Big In A Small Town. The audition took place in Jasper, Alberta where she performed her original song Crash and Crumble acoustically for Brad Mates of Emerson Drive and CMT's Casey Clarke. Brad Mates commented: "Emily was the dark horse, she had the most unique voice today and t...

DREW GREGORY was born and raised in the small farming town of Standard, Alberta about an hour outside of Calgary. Between working on the family farm and going to school he always enjoyed playing guitar. He became well known for showing up to every high school party with a guitar on his back. Fast forward: Drew captivated everyone at the 2010 Country 105 Rising Star competition, making the finals a...

MICHELLE WRIGHT - whose hits include Take It Like A Man, He Would Be Sixteen & I've Forgotten You - is about to begin a new tour across Canada called Songs From The Halls. The shows will feature her biggest hits as well as songs made famous by some of her favourite artists including Anne Murray, Merle Haggard, Aretha Frankin & Al Green. Tune in to this special interview to hear Michelle ta...

Little did Country singer/songwriter B.J. ROBERTS know that after watching a Willie Nelson interview on Larry King Live in 2010, that his comment to his partner Winnie about Willie would lead to a new song. B.J. said Willie has sung with a lot of singers, and Winnie's response was, “Well, he sure didn’t do one with you, did he?”, and that was the idea for the song, “Willie, Will You Do One With Me...

Alberta Country Artist BLAKE REID joins me on the show to talk about his debut album Against The Grain featuring the first single Take Me Back. The music he makes comes from the heart: "I grew up with Country music," explains Blake. "On the farm, my mom would sing along with all the Country radio legends that echoed in the old farmhouse and Dad would tune into the daily grain prices. I spent thous...

Central Alberta Rockin' Country Band DOMINO has released a brand new single to Country radio called In A Small Town. Taking Country Rock music to the best Alberta Stages, Domino brings four vocalists and intimate harmonies to their performing and recording. Their tenure as band mates and co-creators is explanation enough for the tight sound that gives Domino so much soul, but the truth is, when fr...

Hawaii is world famous for beaches, a surfer vibe and a lifestyle linked to the great surf bands of the early 60s – The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, The Surfaris, The Ventures, toname a few. Now, this classic beach sound has a new, fresh voice in the aloha-rockingDUKES OF SURF. Their sweet melodies, saturated by lush harmonies, organic instrumentationand phenomenal chord progressions, are a blast f...

Raised on a small farm in rural Saskatchewan during the economic depression of the 1980s, J.J. VOSS grew up identifying closely with the under-dog, and the out-law music movement. His heroes include Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Steve Earle and John Mellencamp, to name a few J.J. returns to In The Country to talk about his music career and latest radio release. Your comments on this episode or any...

John Abrams of The Abrams Brothers joins me on the show to talk about the group's current projects and to share their latest radio single - remixed by Jason Barry - called Northern Redemption.

JASON HASTIE, former front man of Canadian Country group Six West, joins me on the show to talk about his music career and latest radio single Til She Don't.

Country music artist SHELLY DUBOIS was raised on a steady diet of Country classics.  Her father worked in the oil industry as a truck driver and her mother stayed at home, raising their five children. At the age of eight, Shelly picked up her mother's accordion and two years later, she had a guitar in hand – strumming and singing.  “I love to sing songs that tell a story and create a connection wi...

Born in Midland and now calling Barrie home, Amy Rose entered her first singing contest Barrie’s Promenade Days at age 5. That was when her parents realized their daughter had talent to sing. She began to enter other talent competitions including Kinmount Fair which she won 3 years in a row - and got to meet one of her idols, Jason McCoy.  By the age of 10, Amy was mastering the art of yodeling wi...