The monthly magazine dedicated to Line dancing Issue: 167 • £3 Josh Turner WHY DON’T WE JUST DANCE? 04 9 771366 650031 14 DANCES INCLUDING : MI ROWSU - THE PIPER - STOMP & KICK - BROKEN HEELS cover march.indd 1 25/02/2010 17:13 1085391 1085391 HH.indd 1 26/02/2010 12:07 MARCH 2010 Editorial and Advertising Clare House 166 Lord Street Southport, PR9 0QA Dear Dancers Tel: 01704 392300 Fax: 01704 501678 Well, the CBA is certainly an Subscription Enquiries event many of you can’t get Tel: 01704 392300 [email protected] enough of. At the time of writing this column, only three Agent Enquiries weeks have passed since the Tel: 01704 392353 [email protected] last one closed its doors and 65% of its total availability Web Support has now been sold. This is a Tel: 01704 392333 record and it does prove that [email protected] many dancers love the CBA Publisher and what it sets out to do, Betty Drummond ie celebrate the very best of [email protected] Line dance. Managing Editor Laurent Saletto Which brings me rather neatly to what the event is all about, in other words the awards. These [email protected] are generated by what some of you seem to think of as a five letter filthy word, v….s. Or “Votes” to you and me. The controversy is always generated on the basis that not enough clarity is given Editorial Assistant by the magazine and the general underbelly of the argument is that the system is poor/fallible/ Dawn Middleton crap/open to abuse and that in some way or the other, Linedancer is rigging the whole shebang to [email protected] have its own little darlings elected. Webmaster Well, I hate to say it but I can guarantee you that no rigging or favoritism ever takes place. No one Paul Swift has ever contacted Betty, Steve or I to offer us fantastic holidays, new cars and millions in the [email protected] bank. I am not discouraging anyone to do so, but all I am saying is that it has never happened. On a serious note, why on earth would we favour one person over another? Makes no sense to me. Dance Editor Steve Healy As for manipulating votes, this is an age old problem. We have made it very difficult in the past [email protected] few years by limiting magazines numbers with the voting form to agents or individuals. We check Assistant Dance Editor every subscription number and you cannot enter online twice either. I can also guarantee that Kath Butler there is not a sudden large influx of thousands through newsagent orders. Believe me, we would [email protected] know! We try to be as fair and as strict as we can. Advertising Sales So when someone talks about “vote manipulation” do they actually mean instructors and Jo Gillinder Tel: 01704 392336 choreographers actively canvassing and getting support from people who love what they do? [email protected] Because if that is what it is, then I for one, agree with the practice. Why wouldn’t you? Circulation Manager Phil Drummond Being in the hub of things as we are, the Linedancer team hears it all, sees it all and reads it all everyday. What many of our readers may not be aware of (and I am lifting the lid today aren’t [email protected] I?) is that, many times, the “accusations” have a distinct taste of sour grapes. I recall one case Design Team in particular where someone had maintained for years how rotten and how bent the system was. Mike Rose, Amy Houghton, This was said by that individual as loud and to as many people as possible. Till the day when that Emma Lyon and Ian McCabe person won an award. Not a peep then, not a cry. THAT award was fair and had been won on [email protected] merit apparently. It was all the others that were wrong. And yet the system had been the same. So perhaps next time, you can make a difference. You can vote for the people and dances you Credits believe in. Not voting is just copping out. And that is the simplest truth of them all. ‘Boot Logo’ courtesy of London Boots Ltd. Linedancer is published monthly in the United Kingdom by Champion Media Group (Waypride Ltd), Clare House, 166 Lord Street, Southport, PR9 0QA. © 2010 Entire contents by Champion Media Group. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any medium without prior written permission from the publisher. Comments and opinions printed do not necessarily reflect those of the publishers. ISSN 1366-6509 www.linedancermagazine.com 3 Dear Dancers.indd 1 25/02/2010 17:28 we make you dance Shop online by visiting our website 1084389 www.rumpf.net tel: 0049 5923 4551 email: [email protected] 1084389 rumpf 1 26/02/2010 12:06 Contents 10 Features 10 Lily and Farly A love story like no other 20 Sam Millar A unique UK country artist 76 Judith Owen Beautiful damage Regulars 13 -17 Grapevine News from the clubs and much more. See if you are in this month. 22-25 Playlists and Charts The definitive Line dance charts, entirely based on your votes and feedback. Who is Number One? 49-62 Steppin’Off The Page 14 fantastic dance scripts 20 49 Dancing In The Dark 50 Loved By You 51 All Together Again 52 Some Kind Of Wonderful 53 Mi Rowsu 54 Linda Eh 55 Rhyme Or Reason 56 The Piper 57 Stomp And Kick 58 Blah Blah Blah 59 Broken Heels 60 NY Cha 61 One Day You Will 62 Nobody 76 5 Contents 167.indd 1 25/02/2010 16:41 Josh Turner is one of those Country names everyone has heard of. In this exclusive interview for Linedancer, Laurent asks Josh about his role models, his career and Line dance! Josh Turner is one of those Country names everyone has heard of. In this exclusive interview for Linedancer, Laurent asks Josh about his role models, his career and Line dance! 30 Josh Turner.indd 1 25/02/2010 17:24 Why don’t we just DANCE? From earning a standing ovation as an unknown me at Belmont University. She was interning that happened with the economy. It seemed singer on the Grand Ole Opry stage in 2001 for Jody Williams Music and took my demo to like the most appropriate title. with his impressive delivery of “Long Black Jody for him to listen to. He was impressed Train,” Josh Turner, with his deep soulful voice, enough and wanted to take a meeting with LS: Why Don’t We Just Dance was the has established himself as one of the most me. After several meetings, he signed me to a album fi rst single and it has become a identifi able male vocalists in country music, production deal. From that point, we decided huge dance hit. How do you feel about selling more than four million albums. His style to start making the rounds to all the labels in dancers loving Josh Turner and his is modern, but country through and through. town. The fi rst one we went to was MCA music? because Jody had a great relationship with Mark JT: I’m excited about dancers across the globe LS: Hi, Josh. Tell me a little bit about Wright, the VP of A&R at the time. I went and loving my music! I used to dance in Myrtle you, how you grew up and how played three songs for Mark and Tony Brown, Beach in a show called High Steppin’ Country, Country music became your destiny? one of which was Long Black Train. They were so I defi nitely know how hard dancers work JT: Hi. I grew up in Hannah, South Carolina both in agreement that they should sign me and how much fun it is to dance. I love -a small farming community- where everyone to a demo deal which eventually led to a full- creating music that makes people want to get knew each other. My fi rst real exposure to blown record deal. The rest is history! on their feet. music was in church, every week. This did have a big impact on me. I was in a choir LS: Who are the role models in Josh LS: Finally, Josh, are there any plans from a very early age, sang solos, and was in Turner’s life? afoot for a tour soon? a gospel quartet that traveled around to local JT: Quite a few! My parents and grandparents JT : I don’t have any immediate plans to go churches. My fi rst exposure to country music are the ones I consider my role models as to to Europe, but that is defi nitely on my list of was in my Granny’s house. She had a big my heroes they would be Randy Travis, John things to accomplish in my career. I am fully record collection that was made up of country, Anderson, Johnny Cash, Vern Gosdin and aware of my fan base over there and they are bluegrass, and southern gospel. That became Hank Williams. I fi nd inspiration in all kinds of very loyal, and very patient. I will defi nitely the bedrock of the music I’ve made throughout places. Most of my songs start with a title. It get over there at some point, I promise…. my life.