Award-winning Country artist DERIC RUTTAN will release his new album entitled Take The Week Off on October 15th. The lead single is the title track and is now the fastest rising single of his career. The new project was recorded in Nashville and produced by Deric and Grammy-nominated producer Luke Wooten (who has also produced for Brad Paisley & Dierks Bentley). No doubt you've heard Blake Shelton's new songMine Would Be You climbing to the top of the Country charts - Deric is a co-writeron the song. He has also had a hand in writing Aaron Pritchett's hit Hold My Beer,Eric Church's Guys Like Me and a couple of Dierks Bentley's hits What Was I Thinkin' & Lot Of Leavin' Left To Do - to name just a few. Deric's upcoming tour is called Your Town Throw Down - with Chad Brownlee & Jason Blaine - across Canada starting October 16th. He's here to talk about the new album, new single, his recent hit Main Street 1979, Blake's current hit & much more!

Originally from Manhattan, Kansas and now living in Nashville, Country artist LARA WISDOM is currently working on her third album. It'll be the follow up to her previous albums Someday and Enough Is Enough. Her passion is not only in performing songs but in writing them as well. Her influences include Trisha Yearwood, Linda Ronstadt and Jann Arden. These days, her favourite venues for taking in live music are the more intimate places where she can listen to singer-songwriters perform. One of those places she enjoys is one she'll also be playing at later in October calledBelcourt Taps. Jace Carlton of 1423 Music in Nashville says: "Easy on the ears and the heart is the best way I can describe the experience of listening to just a few of the songs from Lara Wisdom's latest offering Enough Is Enough. Her voice and melodies are very easy on the ears, while the lyrics tugged at my heart with a gentle, yet passionate intensity."   We'd love to get your feedback on this show or any In The Country interview you've listened to. Please e-mail [email protected] with your comments.

Originally from Manhattan, Kansas and now living in Nashville, Country artist LARA WISDOM is currently working on her third album. It'll be the follow up to her previous albums Someday and Enough Is Enough. Her passion is not only in performing songs but in writing them as well. Her influences include Trisha Yearwood, Linda Ronstadt and Jann Arden. These days, her favourite venues for taking in live music are the more intimate places where she can listen to singer-songwriters perform. One of those places she enjoys is one she'll also be playing at later in October calledBelcourt Taps. Jace Carlton of 1423 Music in Nashville says: "Easy on the ears and the heart is the best way I can describe the experience of listening to just a few of the songs from Lara Wisdom's latest offering Enough Is Enough. Her voice and melodies are very easy on the ears, while the lyrics tugged at my heart with a gentle, yet passionate intensity."   We'd love to get your feedback on this show or any In The Country interview you've listened to. Please e-mail [email protected] with your comments.

Collingwood, Ontario country music artist GRAHAM TRUDE is also known as The Singing Soldier (a title given to him by the legendary Good Brothers). He's an avid outdoorsman who shares his love of life and Canada through his music. In 2007, Graham joined the Canadian Forces and served as an armoured crewmen for five years in Edmonton, Alberta and Toronto, Ontario. Training several areas around the world, he deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 for a nine-month operational tour as a front line soldier. Graham's music career started in 2010 upon his release from the forces. He began to write his own songs and perform across Ontario. His first single Redneck Pride earned him radio airplay at Canadian Country stations. He also sings & co-wrote the theme for the TV show The Real Canadian Joes. Graham is releasing an EP this fall with the lead single & video When I Met God Today.

Collingwood, Ontario country music artist GRAHAM TRUDE is also known as The Singing Soldier (a title given to him by the legendary Good Brothers). He's an avid outdoorsman who shares his love of life and Canada through his music. In 2007, Graham joined the Canadian Forces and served as an armoured crewmen for five years in Edmonton, Alberta and Toronto, Ontario. Training several areas around the world, he deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 for a nine-month operational tour as a front line soldier. Graham's music career started in 2010 upon his release from the forces. He began to write his own songs and perform across Ontario. His first single Redneck Pride earned him radio airplay at Canadian Country stations. He also sings & co-wrote the theme for the TV show The Real Canadian Joes. Graham is releasing an EP this fall with the lead single & video When I Met God Today.

ANN CHAPLIN is a singer/songwriter from Deep River, Ontario. Her 2008 debut EP What I Meant To Say received 4 nominations from The IMAs (Independent Music Awards). Her Country album Drive was released in January 2013. Growing up in Northern Ontario, Ann began writing songs on the family piano as soon as she was tall enough to reach the keys, and was a part of every choir and band that her school had to offer. In high school, she played viola in the Deep River Symphony Orchestra. Her love of sports and the outdoors also kept her very busy, as she taught sailing and karate for years. Music was the path she chose and years laters she found herself at Noble Street Studios recording her first Country album with some of the industry’s finest musicians and produced by Toronto’s Douglas Romanow. Her first single Wylie received national radio play and created a platform for her second single Whiskey Days which was a top 10 DMDS radio download. Now, Ann has released Drive - the title track from her current CD - to Country radio. Tune in and get to know this talented Ontario Country artist and her music.

ANN CHAPLIN is a singer/songwriter from Deep River, Ontario. Her 2008 debut EP What I Meant To Say received 4 nominations from The IMAs (Independent Music Awards). Her Country album Drive was released in January 2013. Growing up in Northern Ontario, Ann began writing songs on the family piano as soon as she was tall enough to reach the keys, and was a part of every choir and band that her school had to offer. In high school, she played viola in the Deep River Symphony Orchestra. Her love of sports and the outdoors also kept her very busy, as she taught sailing and karate for years. Music was the path she chose and years laters she found herself at Noble Street Studios recording her first Country album with some of the industry’s finest musicians and produced by Toronto’s Douglas Romanow. Her first single Wylie received national radio play and created a platform for her second single Whiskey Days which was a top 10 DMDS radio download. Now, Ann has released Drive - the title track from her current CD - to Country radio. Tune in and get to know this talented Ontario Country artist and her music.

JIM WITTER released his self-titled debut album in 1993 resulting in a string of top 10 hits: Everything & More, Stolen Moments, Distant Drum, Sweet Sweet Poison & Chevy Coupe. He followed up that success with an album entitled All My Life. The title track - which also climbed the charts - was a co-write with Country artist Steve Wariner. Jim has won several CCMA awards and has been nominated for multiple Juno awards. In 2003, he released a Christian album entitled Forgiveness which earned him a GMA Dove Awards nomination for Album of the Year. In recent years, Jim has been touring in The Piano Men - his tribute to the music of Elton John & Billy Joel. Tune in for some great stories, wonderful memories & a couple of Jim's biggest songs.

We'd love to get your feedback on this show or any In The Country interview you've listened to. Please e-mail [email protected] with your comments.

JIM WITTER released his self-titled debut album in 1993 resulting in a string of top 10 hits: Everything & More, Stolen Moments, Distant Drum, Sweet Sweet Poison & Chevy Coupe. He followed up that success with an album entitled All My Life. The title track - which also climbed the charts - was a co-write with Country artist Steve Wariner. Jim has won several CCMA awards and has been nominated for multiple Juno awards. In 2003, he released a Christian album entitled Forgiveness which earned him a GMA Dove Awards nomination for Album of the Year. In recent years, Jim has been touring in The Piano Men - his tribute to the music of Elton John & Billy Joel. Tune in for some great stories, wonderful memories & a couple of Jim's biggest songs.

We'd love to get your feedback on this show or any In The Country interview you've listened to. Please e-mail [email protected] with your comments.

Produced by Grammy award-nominated producerDave Cobb (Jamey Johnson, Secret Sisters, Shooter Jennings), LINDI ORTEGA'S new album Tin Star (to be released Oct 8th) builds on the success of her previous two critically acclaimed works - 2011’s Juno Award-nominated Little Red Boots and 2012's Cigarettes & Truckstops (longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize). “It’s always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out. I have witnessed so much talent living in Nashville that has inspired me to push myself even further,” says Toronto-born Lindi. “I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feel of every release. I don’t want to risk making the same record over and over. Working with a new group brings a new spirit and new ideas to the music.” Several songs on the album touch on the classic themes of country music: loneliness, unrequited love, crumbling relationships and primal desire. Lindi's songs have been featured on the ABC hit TV show Nashville and she made a guest appearance on the show as well. She can be heard singing on Dean Brody's current release at Country radio called Bounty.