New Single for Susanna Colley
written by two of The Best
The latest single release from Susanna Colley’s acclaimed album Steel Toes To Stilettos is the Allan Caswell/Drew McAlister song Now It’s Up To Us, a 20-year-old song that, but for Susanna, might never have been heard at all.Caswell says: "Drew and I wrote Now It’s Up To Us about 20 years ago and it kind of fell through the cracks. Thankfully, Susanna and I had been writing together soon after we wrote it. I played her the song, and she asked for a copy. I forgot the incident and Drew and I pretty much forgot writing it." Susanna was looking through a big folder of lyrics putting together songs for her album and Now It’s Up To Us literally fell out. She still loved the song and was surprised that no one had recorded it before. Now It’s Up To Us … is unashamedly about Australia but it’s not a “flag waver”, it’s about all Australian people … wherever they came from in their history. Now It’s Up To Us was produced by top shelf pop and country producer Stuart Stuart (Shepard, Amber Lawrence).
Christmas Spin from Cameron Cusack
Cameron Cusack displays his sense of humour into his foray of Christmas music writing.Christmas Deer is the Redneck Christmas track of 2026. Produced by Nashville based Producer James Sinclair-Stott, written by Cameron Cusack and Luke Nelson. Christmas Deer is a typical country song about a guy that only wants to spend his Christmas doing real country things like fishing, four wheel driving and hunting. However this simple guy accidentally mistakes Santa’s reindeer as wild deer and has a lot of explaining to do to his lady back home and the world as to where Santa’s reindeer have gone this Christmas.Move over Mariah Carey. This is this years Christmas song !!
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Larry Cann heads Stateside
Larry Cann will be heading to Fort Worth, Texas for the awards ceremony of the Academy of Western Artists on 21st November, While he doesn't have a nomination this year, he is excited to perform a few showcases at the International Western Music Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico inclusive of their awards running Nov 12th - 15th. Larry also has paired up in what they call the Team Penning competition with Las Vegas based western poet KC LaCourse to write and perform a song from a provided topic given by the IWMA panel. A great challenge.Larry also has a Top 5 nomination for the 2026 IWMA MUSIC/POETRY VIDEO OF THE YEAR!His entry."Somewhere In Montana" can be viewed below. The award will be presented at the IWMA Awards Show on Saturday, November 14, in Albuquerque."Somewhere In Montana" is still receiving strong airplay, now on the playlists of radio stations in 18 countries across the globe.Larry would love to chat to you on his return from America. Get in touch via the links below.
Cas & Waddo Serve Up Some Bluegrass
Cas and Waddo have started work on their long-awaited Bluegrass album and Straight World is its first single release. With Waddo’s old time string band waltz tune played authentically and stylishly by Pixie Jenkins (fiddle), Justin Vilchez (mandolin), Gus Fenwick (stand up bass) and Lindsay Waddington (banjo, guitar and dobro) matched up with Allan Caswell’s quirky, ironic, semi-autobiographical lyric and world weary, old bloke vocal, Straight World is real deal, old school Bluegrass with a 2026 attitude. The Cas and Waddo partnership is all about the songs. They write them, record them with great musicians and work out what to do with them later. This method has produced 3 Lynchburg albums, a solo album each and songs for a number of other artists since they started working together in 2021. The common thread is that everything they do is unmistakably classic country music. Cas and Waddo love Bluegrass … you can’t fake it and there’s nowhere to hide. The songs have to be spot on, the playing needs to be pretty much perfect … and it needs to be fun. There is a lot more to Bluegrass than hot playing at break neck speed. Straight World is a subtle, well-crafted piece of authentic Bluegrass.