James talks to Chris Young about his early career, massive ballads, chart success, new music and Christmas songs!

James talks to Chris Young about his early career, massive ballads, chart success, new music and Christmas songs!

Country music and the influences surrounding it, like the rural farming communities, the church, the Friday night lights and the sports, the drinking and the blue collar lifestyles have not been as progressive or as openly welcoming towards the LGBT communities as they possibly could have been.However, scratch a little deeper beneath the surface and you will find both major label artist support and a progressively more vocal acceptance from both artists and writers alike. In this week's ...

Scratch beneath the surface and you'll find more support for the LGBT community in Country music than you might have, at first, thought.

Scratch beneath the surface and you'll find more support for the LGBT community in Country music than you might have, at first, thought.

Atlanta based rapper Lil Nas X crashed into the Billboard Country charts last week with his song, 'Old Town Road'. A viral phenomenon, with it's origins in both Tik Tok and Soundcloud, it was then removed by Billboard from the charts.Is the decision based on music grounds? Racial grounds? Or something more suspicious?This episode, James Daykin looks at the issue and discusses why it might actually be a good thing, in the long term, for the music industry and for fans of music alike.You can fi...

James looks at rapper Lil Nas X's 'Country' song 'Old Town Road' and tries to examine the controversy from a different angle.

James looks at rapper Lil Nas X's 'Country' song 'Old Town Road' and tries to examine the controversy from a different angle.

In honour of Lady Antebellum appearing on the podcast we thought we ought to smarten ourselves up a bit so we've got a theme tune now! Look at us, going up in the world!Saturday night C2C festival headliners, Lady Antebellum, spoke with openness and honesty about their love for the UK, their newfound vulnerability and their upcoming album at the official press conference and you can listen to the whole thing here.Some of the questions are a little hard to pick out at times but the answers are...

Lady Antebellum speak about their love of the UK and their upcoming album at the official C2C press conference.