Ben's Country Music Show

21/12/2023

Merry Christmas, Y'all! All this week you can hear our 2023 Christmas special on your local station... or online from Christmas Eve! Thanks for tuning in all year, enjoy this two hour special full of your favourite country music festive favourites! Join us for a ride in the 400 Horsepower sleigh!🎄❄️🎅🏻🤠

13/11/2023

Great edition of this week. Full run down of the highlights, plus a wonderful conversation with Suzy Bogguss recorded in Nashville and feat her new cookbook and the new album Prayin' For Sunshine as our record of the week! 📻

10/10/2023

Great episode of the show this week feat. new music from Darius Rucker, UK tour news from Jordan Davis + our interview with David Nail (one checked off my bucket list ✅) recorded back in June at the 50th CMA Fest. Tune in on your local station! 🤠 📻

25/07/2023

This week on the show, we've got new music from Chris Stapleton, Dolly does Queen and Chris Young channels Bowie. Plus our first interview from with Chase Mitchell and Lori McKenna's fabulous new record, 1988, is our album of the week! Phew!

27/06/2023

This week, we're back from and we're catching up on all the great new music released recently, so we've got new songs from Jon Pardi, Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker, the Turnpike Troubadours and more! Don't miss it! Tune in at https://buff.ly/2QD8HQh 🤠

Country music radio show broadcast from the UK around the world since 2008. Two hours of the best in country, roots, Americana, and bluegrass.

09/06/2023

It's time for the big 50th CMA Fest weekend! 🇺🇸

Excited to be back at '23 and it's extra special to be here for the big 5-0. A busy day of interviews today for Ben's Country Music Show and for the (racing across town for some of the best chats and hospitality I've had this two years of fieldwork). Now for the show! 😁🇺🇸

10/03/2023

It's time! The 2023 is here, kicking off tonight with headlining in London. If you're heading to the festival in London, Dublin and Glasgow, have a wonderful time y'all 🤠🇺🇸

Still time to catch our special, feat interviews and stories!

07/03/2023

🚨🚨 It's C2C Country to Country week! And we've got a special show bringing you must from artists appearing across a range of stages, our festival highlights and top tips AND Matt Stell, Tyler Braden and Hannah Ellis join us for a chat about their performances this weekend!

28/02/2023

Great show this week! We've got Dierks Bentley's wonderful 'Gravel and Gold' as the album of the week, new songs from Ashley McBryde and Brad Paisley, plus Cash is our artist of the month for March. And there's your Billboard Charts and Music History. Don't miss it!

08/11/2022

It's week in Nashville! We've got a jam packed show covering the run up the big night, plus this week's Rock and Roll HoF induction ceremony, new music from Flatland Cavalry, Keith Urban and so much more! Be sure to tune in!

04/10/2022

Ben has written a tribute to the Queen of Country Music, Loretta Lynn, who sadly passed away earlier today at the age of 90.

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Somehow, you always think your musical heroes are going to live forever. Miss Loreta, rightly called the Queen of Country, was perhaps the most truthful artist country has ever known. She essentially wrote about her life, and changed the world in the process.

At one point she was the most banned artist on US Radio because of a little song called "The Pill" which dared to tout the benefits of contraception. In the conservative South of the early 1960s where women were essentially still considered to be owned by their husbands, that was a pretty big deal. Just listen to the lyrics of that song and how Loretta delivers them, it changed everything, and yet to her it was just singing about life. It was her lived experience.

As I found out watching documentary interviews in the archives on my PhD fieldwork in Nashville earlier this year, Lynn felt her writing was her greatest legacy, stating:

"I was writing about life, what happened that day. I couldn't understand why everyone else wouldn't do that. But every song which came on was a fantasy. You don't write about fantasy, you write about true life. What made me, was my writing."

The Pill, Don't Come Home A Drinkin', Fist City and the Coal Miners Daughter. As Loretta would say: "If you're lookin' at me, you're looking at country".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63134852

The singer's hits included Coal Miner's Daughter, H***y Tonk Girl and feminist anthem The Pill.

10/08/2022

Join Ben for this week's show, featuring a tribute to Oliva Newton-John. We've also got a full round-up of upcoming country concerts here in the UK, and your Billboard Charts and This Week in History. A great two hours of music! Don't miss it!

Country music radio show broadcast from the UK around the world since 2008. Two hours of the best in country, roots, Americana, and bluegrass.

04/08/2022

ICYMI: Highlights from the 2022 CMA Fest were added to BBC iPlayer at the same time as they premiered in the US this week. We are looking forward to reliving the experience of our first in person CMA Fest back in June! ☀️🤠

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cmswg1

BBC iPlayer presents performances from the Country Music Association Summer Festival

19/07/2022

Did you know? You can catch up on any shows you might have missed, over on our website. Going back many years, you can listen to shows, interviews and more, wherever you happen to be. https://benscountrymusicshow.com/shows/

19/07/2022

Join for this week's edition of Ben's Country Music, featuring two hours of the best in country, roots, Americana and bluegrass. Plus there's exciting news about Kelsea Ballerini's new album, due out in September. Tune in here: https://benscountrymusicshow.com/listen-on-air/

12/07/2022

Find out more about the show, how to listen and catch up on any episodes you've missed including our shows from Nashville and all the interviews we've been sharing with you over the past month. Full details on our website: https://benscountrymusicshow.com/

12/07/2022

Who's heading out to catch Tenille Arts on one of her UK tour stops this week? You're in for a treat if you do! Full dates are below, and you can hear the new song, That's My Friend You're Talking About, on the show this week.

12/07/2022

On this week's show, we're in conversation with Kimberly Kelly and talking about her album I'll Tell You What's Gonna Happen is our record of the week. Find out how to tune in right here or catch up online later in the week.

06/07/2022

Everyone has been talking about the Eagles performance at BST Hyde Park last weekend, a show which could very well be the band's last UK show. We'll be talking about that this week. Here's a review from our friends at Entertainment Focus:

The legendary rock band celebrated their 50th anniversary in London yesterday.

05/07/2022

Have you checked out our Spotify playlist yet? Each week it's updated with the latest songs featured on the show. You can listen wherever you are. Find it here and follow for the latest updates:

Ben's Country Music Show · Playlist · 23 songs · 11 likes

05/07/2022

Join us for this week's show, feat. interviews with Abby Anderson and Carolyn Miller from . Plus there's more new music from Luke Combs album Growin' Up and we talk about the Eagles, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss playing Hyde Park BST Summer. https://benscountrymusicshow.com/listen-on-air/

21/06/2022

This week's show is our last coming from East Nashville (but don't worry we've got so much to share when we get home). This week, it's Dollywood and the Smoky Mountains, Ben's spot at the Bluebird Cafe and we've got Michelle Wright and Caitlyn Smith in conversation.

15/06/2022

Don't miss this week's show, our first special, feat our highlights from the main stage, and interviews with and . Plus, our album of the week is 's Denim and Rhinestones. Check our website for where to listen!

10/06/2022

A fantastic first day at 2022. Are we excited to do it all again today? You bet we are!

31/05/2022

It's our third week here in and we've got another great show, broadcasting across the UK, and the world. We talk about a great showcase featuring Maggie Baugh and friends, plus Alecia Nugent at the Station Inn, the night Kenny Chesney came to town, and so much more!

17/05/2022

All this week, you can hear our first show recorded from our remote studio here in East Nashville. We've got great music, your Billboard Charts, This Week in History, plus Ben Atkinson explores his new East Nashville home and we talk about the brilliant 'Her Country', a new book on the important stories of women in country music since 2000.

Listen to the show on air. Ben's Country Music Show is broadcast across the UK, Ireland and in Australia. Check the listings and tune in!

10/05/2022

We've got a new song this week from Dylan Scott and Jimmie Allen. It's called 'In our Blood' and will be on Dylan's upcoming new album. Full details and listen to the song here: https://buff.ly/3N4MPda

10/05/2022

Have you found our Spotify playlist yet? If you follow along you'll get all the songs featured on the show each week and you can listen wherever you are! Follow along here:

Ben's Country Music Show · Playlist · 24 songs · 12 likes

10/05/2022

On this week's show, we're getting very excited about our upcoming trip to Nashville! And we've got new music from Midland, plus details of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, a brilliant number one from two female powerhouses and so much more. Don't miss the show!

Listen to the show on air. Ben's Country Music Show is broadcast across the UK, Ireland and in Australia. Check the listings and tune in!

05/05/2022

Definitely our favourite track on Miranda Lambert's new record, Palomino. It's called I'll Be Lovin' You and you can listen here: . Hear our full review and songs from the album on this week's show!

Listen to “I’ll Be Lovin’ You” from Miranda Lambert’s album, Palomino, out now: https://ml.lnk.to/palominoAY Listen On:Apple Music: https://ml.lnk.to/palomin...