In A Whisper Shoots To No.1!

Clive John (singer from The Johnny Cash Roadshow tribute) has a new unplugged version of his song “In A Whisper” and it has shot to number 1 in the British & Irish Top 10 HotDisc chart.

His fantastic acoustic mix entered the chart last Thursday at No.2 and today (13th Nov.) it popped into the No.1 slot. “In A Whisper” is also at No.4 in the Hotdisc Top 20 Chart (No.7 last week) and No.5 in the Hotdisc Top 40 Chart (No.8 last week).

Click here to listen to “In A Whisper” Unplugged on the music player at MixdupStore.

This track is available to buy as an MP3 download exclusively at the MixdupStore - get your copy by clicking here.

Sorry Steve

We were pointed in the direction of Steve (FiremanOly) by Ben (BENNANTYLAD) and discovered his gorgeous version of Tracy Chapman's "Sorry".

We've added it to our Johnny Cash Roadshow Top 10 To Watch playlist.

How do you rate it? Add a comment to this post to let us know.

A Fantastic Johnny Cash Roadshow Christmas!

We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas this year at the fantastic Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove on Saturday 20th December 2008.

Featuring a splendid selection of Johnny Cash greats, mixed with a couple of festive numbers, and a lovely selection of Clive John's own songs, this is going to be a marvellous Christmas show!

Book your tickets now as they are selling quickly! Click here to go to the Artrix Box Office website or give them a ring on 01527 577330.

Ben's Hallelujah

Our good YouTube friend Ben (BENNANTYLAD) has just put up a lovely version of Hallelujah.

We thought it was so good that it had to be added to our Top 10 To Watch playlist.

See what you think and add a comment to this post to let us know.

Full Steam Ahead!

The Members Area is now back up and running, after it's brief maintenance downtime, and the Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter has just been sent out so check your Inbox!

Please note that the password for the Members Area has changed! Details in the newsletter.

If you have subscribed to the Newsletter but it didn't arrive in your Inbox then please check your Spam folder as it may have slipped into there. Look for an email with the subject line: “Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter - 31st Oct 2008”.

If it has ended up in your Spam folder then remember to mark it as not spam, and/or add newsletter@clivejohn.com to your email white list, to avoid it happening again.

Strewth!

Strewth was exactly the thought when I listened to 10 year old Brendan MacFarlane sing Ray Charles' I Got A Woman.

It's always good to discover talent from someone so young. Brendan's video is now in our YouTube Top 10 To Watch playlist.

See what you think and add a comment to this post to let us know.

Daddy's Prayer by Steve Robison, Jr.

Hadn't been over to our friend Steve Robison Jr.'s YouTube Channel for a while but glad I did this morning as this was the video that I watched.

Think that Steve's Daddy's Prayer is a gorgeous song and it has been added to our Top 10 To Watch playlist.

See what you think and add a comment to this post to let us know.

Temporarily Unavailable!

Please note that the Members Area is currently offline for maintenance.

It will be live tomorrow in time for the release of the latest Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow newsletter (including new access password).

Cry, Cry, Cry for JohnnyCashRocks101

Our friend from YouTube, JohnnyCashRocks101, asked us if we had a version of Cry, Cry, Cry that we could put up onto our YouTube Channel.

We are happy to announce that we have now uploaded our version of this fantastic Johnny Cash track. Please let us know what you think.

Clive to Camera

Clive John, lead singer of The Johnny Cash Roadshow, starts his fantastic “Clive to Camera” series on 1st November 2008 - not long to go!

This video series is planned to run for 6 months, featuring songs from his albums, and each video will appear in the exclusive Members Area a month before being published to his YouTube Channel.

If you haven't already signed up for the Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter, which will give you access to the exclusive Members Area, then sign up on Clive's or our website's homepage.

Do you have a favourite Clive John song you'd like him to perform for you to camera? As a member you can fill out the members only Request Form and get your request in asap! Clive is recording his first video tomorrow…

What Do You Think?

We hope you like our redesigned Johnny Cash Roadshow Blog. It is now wider and cleaner and, hopefully, you'll find it a lot better to browse through and read up on everything Johnny Cash Roadshow!

As always, thanks to John at JEH studios for sorting out all our online stuff - couldn't do it without you!

Sam Bradley Gives His Love To Rose

Came across Sam Bradley doing a lovely interpretation of Give My Love To Rose on YouTube and have added it to our Top 10 To Watch playlist. Singing with Sam is Avril Bradley.

Have a listen and see what you think.

Ring of Fire from the Audience

We have another version of our popular version of Ring of Fire and we've just added it to our YouTube Channel.

It was shot from the audience and also gets in closer to the action for more detail.

Hope you like it!

Newsletter Is Out!

The Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter has gone out today to all our fantastic fans.

Don't forget to enter the competition if you haven't already - closing date is the end of this month - and we hope you enjoy all the new content we've added to the members area.

If you're not a member unfortunately it is too late to enter the current competition by signing up for our newsletter. To be able to enter future Clive John / JCRS competitions, and to gain access to our exclusive members area, sign up on our website homepage.

Darling Companion dedicated to tuktukskagal

Just added a video of Darling Companion to our YouTube Channel and we'd like to dedicate it to our lovely friends tuktukskagal (Tuktuk).

Tuktuk has been fantastic; huge Johnny Cash fan, they have been watching, commenting on, and sharing our videos with their friends.

We really appreciate it. Thank you Tuk.

Ring of Fire

Have added Ring of Fire to our YouTube Channel today - if you watch it please comment/rate it as we'd love to know what you think of it.

We especially like this version as you are introduced to all of the band.

Hope you like it!

Cocaine Blues, dedicated to JohnnyCashFan11

Just uploaded Cocaine Blues to our YouTube Channel.

Our friend from YouTube, JohnnyCashFan11 (Sean), came to this show and Cocaine Blues was dedicated to him on the night as it's one of his favourite Johnny Cash songs. We've extended that dedication to Sean with this video and thank him for coming to the show.

We really enjoyed meeting him backstage and are glad that he, and his father Carl, had a wonderful time. Fantastic guys and true Johnny Cash Fans.

Road Trip and Cigarettes & Coffee

We have just added two new videos to our YouTube channel:

Cigarettes & Coffee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzZhIhDHL5Y


This lovely song - written by Clive John and performed by Clive and the Johnny Cash Roadshow band - was inspired by the music of Johnny Cash.

Road Trip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5iQt-Iidc


Returning home after a long weekend of gigs, and very late nights, Nick captured this video on his mobile (isn't technology great?!?) inside the car.

If you'd like, please leave comments and rate the videos.

JCRS at the wedding of Sally & Andy Spicer

We were so happy to be asked to perform at the wedding of Sally Spicer (nee Brown) and Andy Spicer on 30th August 2008.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish them every happiness in their future together - they are a lovely couple.

Andy kindly wrote to us afterwards - a few quotes appear below.

“Just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the band of the Johnny Cash Roadshow for the amazing performance they gave at our wedding in August. They filled the dancefloor from start to finish!”

“One quote from a good friend of mine, who doesn't often let his hair down: 'I don't know how they've done it, but they've actually got me dancing!'”

NSPCC & Ham Polo Club

Katy Hodges, Development Manager from the NSPCC, was kind enough to send us an email after our involvment in the ChildLine Polo at Sundown in June:

“Sorry for the delay in my emailing but I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the Johnny Cash Roadshow team for your fantastic performance at ChildLine Polo at Sundown.

The guests thought you were brilliant and your performance was definitely a highlight of the evening.

Just to let you know that the event has so far raised £60,000 for ChildLine which means we can potentially answer an additional 15,000 calls from children and young people who desperately need our help.

Thank you again

Katy”