In The Country With Dave Woods

British Columbia Country artist Ben Klick is here to chat about his new single Middle Of Nowhere & much more! Over the years, Ben has won five North American Country Music Association Awards, two British Columbia Country Music Awards, a Performing Arts Award, Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Okanagan College Young Alumni Award, and was a Top 7 Canada’s Walk of Fame Emerging Artist, BreakOut West SOCAN Song House Participant, and Global Country Canada Star Search Winner. 

Nova Scotia's Ian Janes has a song he co-wrote with hit songwriter Byron Hill featured in the popular TV series Nashville and on its soundtrack (Season 5, Volume 2). Now, he's released his own version of the song and he's here to share it with us. Plus. he'll chat about his 2017 album Yes Man.

Ontario's Dayna Shereck has just released her brand new EP Chasing The Moon featuring the debut single Two Feet On The Ground. Tune in and get to know this talented singer-songwriter and hear two tracks from her new release. Listen to more In The Country podcasts at www.inthecountryinterviews.com.

Ontario's Don Graham releases his brand new song I Just Called Him Dad and we get to debut it here on the show!

Sean Hogan's uniquely authentic blend of alt-country and modern rustic pop immediately caught the attention of Country radio and music fans across Canada, leading to his first Canadian Country Music Association award for Independent Male Artist of the Year in 1997. Hit single after hit single (Slow Turning, Sure Fire Love, Dream Vacation, Angeline, I’d Rather Have You, Centered, Catalina Sunrise, A Cowboy’s Heart, and Suck It Up to name a few) became staples of Country music radio. Eighteen Sean Hogan music videos aired on CMT Canada. Sean has stories to tell & new music to share with us!

James Murdoch of the Alberta Country group The Dunagarees is here to chat about their 5 nominations from the Alberta Country Music Association. The group was just sIgned to an Australian label Social Family Records and will start a tour in Australia in January 2018. You'll hear the group's latest single Anywhere With You produced by legendary Grammy award-winning producer Paul Worley.  

Powell River, B.C. Country act Twin Kennedy is here to chat about their new Country album and to share songs from it.

Ontario Country artist Chelsea Crites is here to chat about her new Christmas EP Dear Santa featuring 6 great songs including Mary Did You Know, Please Come Home For Christmas and Winter Wonderland.

Heather Rankin follows her 2016 Juno Award Nominated solo album,A Fine Line, with a Christmas album, Imagine. Her angelic voice wraps her listeners in coziness and nostalgia in this ten-song collection, which includes both original songs, cowritten by Rankin, and traditional songs she grew up singing at Christmas. The evocative imagery in Rankin’s contemplative lyrics inhabit the same deeply personal world Rankin created in A Fine Line, while songs like “Wrap it Up” harken back with frivolity to the music she created with her siblings as The Rankin Family. Imagine begins in contemplation of Christmas Past with Rankin’s soaring rendition of “Once in Royal David’s City,” a song that conjures memories for her of the traditional carols that were sung during the Midnight Masses of her childhood. She also lends her    ethereal voice to a definitive rendition of “Silent Night,” a song she remembers being sung with verses in six different languages at St. Mary’s Parish in Mabou, Nova Scotia. The orchestrations of th

Ontario Country artist Brooklyn Roebuck is here to catch us up on all her latest news and share a couple of her songs with us!

Ontario's Alessia Cohle releases her EP Wild Eyed Wanderer featuring the lead single Wanderlust! Alessia’s love of music began at the early age of eight, when she attended her first concert - Shania Twain’s ‘Come On Over Tour’. It was this experience that encouraged Alessia to begin performing at local fairs, festivals, and even sing duets alongside her grandfather. The excitement and passion left a permanent mark and desire in her soul to follow a career in music. ?Classically trained in voice and piano, Alessia’s desire to become an accomplished musician led her to the University of Western Ontario where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music, Honors Specialization in Music Education (Voice). She was then accepted to the inaugural class at the prestigious Berklee College of Music - Valencia Campus in Spain, where she earned a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance. 

Dan Davidson’s sound came together as he started writing and working on music with Toronto producer Jeff Dalziel (Washboard Union, Andrew Hyatt, Autumn Hill, Brett Kissel) and the two spent the better part of a year developing an EP that’s characteristic of Dan’s love of “good time” music. His first release Found - which he co-wrote with Clayton Bellamy - quickly found a lot of airplay on Country radio. Dan’s 2nd release Barn Burner (another co-write with Clayton Bellamy) was released in late 2016 and also broke the top 40 and pushed Dan over the edge to be recognized as the Canadian Country Spotlight Featured Artist of 2016/2017. The song was accompanied by an over-the-top music video shot in Tokyo, Japan. Recently, Dan just won 4 ACMA awards at his first time participating in the event. He took home “Song Of The Year”, “Single Of The Year”, “Video Of The Year”, and “Rising Star”. Recently, Dan has been recognized as a 2-time CCMA Award nominee alongside acts like Dean Brody, Brett Kissel, and other top art

Alberta's Maddison Krebs is here to chat about living in Nashville & her new single Live For Love.

Alberta's Trevor Panczak is here to chat about his new album Where I Go To Come Back featuring the current single Blame It On The Whiskey.  

London, Ontario's Genevieve Fisher has just released a brand new song to Country radio called You Me We which is the follow up to her popular single Take It On Home.

When JoJo Mason walked in to a Christmas party on December 21, 2013 clutching a jar of that Ole' Smokey Moonshine, he could not have predicted how a strange combination of events would change the course of his life forever.  Born in Regina, Saskatchewan February 26, 1990, JoJo spent most of his early years like many true Canadian kids - playing hockey on ice rinks and frozen lakes. With the opportunity of a successful career in the sport, he relocated to Victoria, BC in 2004 to play at the junior ranks. But this pursuit suddenly came to a screeching halt after suffering a herniated disk. This injury was devastating to his future in hockey and drove him down an unknown road without a destination - until now.  As the story goes - that fated jar of moonshine resolved a debate Dan had had with a co-writer earlier that day:  "During my writing session I wanted to use the line 'drinking moonshine out of a jar' because growing up in a small town, that's exactly what we used to do. My co-writer had never heard of

Ontario Country artist Jessie T is here to chat about her latest single called Meet My Crazy!

Ontario's Ty Baynton may have grown up in the small town of Waterdown, Ontario, but this‘Canadian Country Boy’has stadium-sized vocals. He has always had an appreciation for music with influences including Randy Travis, Tom Petty, and Oasis. At age 14, in his third-generation family farmhouse, Ty picked up his grandfather's guitar and never looked back. “I didn’t have the chance to meet my grandfather, but I always have a piece of him with me.” This talented artist wrote his first song by the age of 15 and found his love of performing in local coffee shops and bars. Known to finish his set and promptly head out into the crowd, he is the same on stage as he is off. Ty is currently writing and recording new music with plans to release in late 2017. The new songs showcase Ty’s strong vocals and songwriting abilities. With production by JUNO award nominee Nathan Ferarro and sound engineering by 2017 JUNO recording engineer winner Jason Dufour, these crowd pleasing tunes will turn some heads and get fans up on

Ontario Country artist Danielle Bourjeaurd - now living in Nashville - has just released her new single Lakeside to Country radio. It's the lead single from her album Country Sorta Way which will be released in August 2017. This talented Canadian Country singer had the chance to write with music legend Tom Cochrane. He liked the song so much he recorded and released it. Danielle is a CCMA Discovery Program finalist.  

CCMA award winning artist Madeline Merlo released Motel Flamingo, a vibrant single perfect for your summer playlist, to all digital outlets on May 19, and to radio May 24. Produced by Karen Kosowski, the uptempo song is a perfect reflection of Madeline’s unique tropical, bohemian vibe. Madeline recently opened for Dean Brody on his Beautiful Freakshow Tour, where she performed the new song live for the first time in 14 cities. Her tour set included both new material and the tracks from her debut album Free Soul, that fans have come to love, including her most recent Top 15 hit “Over and Over” and “War Paint” which resonated deeply with fans on social media. In the midst of another big year, she is the only female artist nominated for Country Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and has reached more than 3 million streams of her hits on Spotify. She also stars alongside Jana Kramer in the musical film, Country Crush, which was released earlier this spring. This summer, Merlo will take to t