On the eve of the biggest and most expensive festival in the UK Country music calendar, why have the genre's promoters suddenly gone 'on-sale' crazy?There's been a deluge of concert announcements and ticket on-sales in the week leading up to this year's C2C festival and that continues in the week after too.James speculates why this is and argues that some tough choices may be having to be made in ranches, homesteads and corals around the UK this week as surely people can't afford to go to eve...

James is feeling grouchy about the number of concerts that have been announced around this year's C2C Festival.

Thomas Rhett released his new single, 'Look What God Gave Her' on Friday 1st March. It prompted James to get all philosophical about Rhett's musical journey and our own evolution as fans and as consumers of music.Is Thomas Rhett doing a 'Taylor Swift' and transitioning into a pop artist or should we all accept the blurring of the genres and the breaking down of the barriers between styles?

Is Thomas Rhett doing a Taylor Swift or is it much deeper than that?

In this week's episode James looks at the car crash of a song that is 'Women' by Florida Georgia Line. Released last Friday (Feb 1st) in anticipation of the the February 15th release of their new album, 'Can't Say I Ain't Country' and featuring Jason Derulo - 'Women' is the third in a trilogy of songs performed by male Country artists after Keith Urban and Dierks Bentley also added their voices to the conversation last year.Is this is a case of 'down with the patriarchy' or have the FGL boys ...

James dissects the meaning behind the lyrics to FGL's 'Women' & looks at the online reaction.

This week, James reacts to the announcements from the C2C festival regarding the artists chosen to play the Spotlight stage, the Indigo stage and all the other stages and rooms around the O2 site in London this March.Tickets for Aftershow parties go back on sale this week and James helps guide you through his recommendations of which singers and bands to check out across the three days.Two things to add to the podcast:1. Caroline Jones should have featured but for some reason James missed cov...

James recommends 10 artists that you should catch at the C2C Festival this year.

This week James looks at his own changing tastes and those of the people he sees around him and proposes a philosophical statement that the longer you are into Country music, the more Country you become.He goes on to suggest this is why mainstream Country music, so derided and shunned in some quarters of the genre these days, is still important and that you have to see people's musical journey's as an ongoing, fluid evolution and not something static.

James analyses how his tastes have changed over the years and what effect being a long-term Country music fan might do to your tastes.