Here it is! (drumroll, please...) my first music video from "The Kitchen Table Sessions Vol II"! I spent the day in a coffin for this, so, you could say I'm DYING for you like it...and if you do, please share it on your FB page and spread the word.
Also see if you can play "spot the Neilson" and find Mom, Dad and my brother Jay in there- you won't find my brother Todd, because he was the genius behind the camera, directing us all! (www.faduchigroup.com)
Thanks everyone, hope you enjoy!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
NEILSON WINS AGAIN AND PERFORMS AT RUGBY WORLD CUP
Two-time winner of the Tui Award for “Best Country Album” Tami Neilson has pulled another double win as “Best Female Artist” at this month’s National Country Music Awards for the second year in a row.
The Canadian-born artist thanked her “NZ country music family” and said after moving here to marry a Kiwi and start her career over in a new country that she now “considers herself a Kiwi”, to which the 1000 plus audience of country music fans at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton erupted with applause.
Neilson is part of the highly anticipated entertainment line up for the Rugby World Cup, showcasing with her band during “Rural Lifestyle Week” and also performing as part of the Real NZ Festival’s “Topp Twins Hoe Down” at the Queens Wharf Oct 2011.
The Canadian-born artist thanked her “NZ country music family” and said after moving here to marry a Kiwi and start her career over in a new country that she now “considers herself a Kiwi”, to which the 1000 plus audience of country music fans at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton erupted with applause.
Neilson is part of the highly anticipated entertainment line up for the Rugby World Cup, showcasing with her band during “Rural Lifestyle Week” and also performing as part of the Real NZ Festival’s “Topp Twins Hoe Down” at the Queens Wharf Oct 2011.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tami Nominated for Best Country Song 2011
The finalists for the APRA Best Country Song Award for 2011 have been announced!
They are Jackie Bristow for ‘Freedom’, Donna Dean for ‘What Am I Gonna Do?’ and Tami Neilson and Lauren Thomson for ‘No Good for my Soul’.
Canadian-born Tami Neilson is a two-time winner of the Best Country Album Tui. She has joined forces with Lauren Thomson, winner of the NZ Songwriting Trust 2010 and APRA Silver Scroll nominee, to launch their collaborative “sister albums”.
‘No Good For My Soul’ is the only song to feature on both their albums- The Kitchen Table Sessions Volume 2 (Tami Neilson) and Chanteuses & Shotguns (Lauren Thomson).
Ant Healey, Director of New Zealand Operations for APRA says:
"Full of heart, soul and talent, these three songs are going to be hard to decide between. The Country Music week-long celebrations in Gore are imbued in tradition and respect, and APRA is pleased to be supporting it again this year. Good luck to all the finalists."
Gore’s Gold Guitar week is in its 37th year and attracts more than 5,000 country music fans during the festival. For more information visit: www.goldguitars.co.nz
Awards to be presented in Gore on Thursday June 2
They are Jackie Bristow for ‘Freedom’, Donna Dean for ‘What Am I Gonna Do?’ and Tami Neilson and Lauren Thomson for ‘No Good for my Soul’.
Canadian-born Tami Neilson is a two-time winner of the Best Country Album Tui. She has joined forces with Lauren Thomson, winner of the NZ Songwriting Trust 2010 and APRA Silver Scroll nominee, to launch their collaborative “sister albums”.
‘No Good For My Soul’ is the only song to feature on both their albums- The Kitchen Table Sessions Volume 2 (Tami Neilson) and Chanteuses & Shotguns (Lauren Thomson).
Ant Healey, Director of New Zealand Operations for APRA says:
"Full of heart, soul and talent, these three songs are going to be hard to decide between. The Country Music week-long celebrations in Gore are imbued in tradition and respect, and APRA is pleased to be supporting it again this year. Good luck to all the finalists."
Gore’s Gold Guitar week is in its 37th year and attracts more than 5,000 country music fans during the festival. For more information visit: www.goldguitars.co.nz
Awards to be presented in Gore on Thursday June 2
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tami's New Album reviewed by Elsewhere's Graham Reid
"When reviewing her previous album The Kitchen Table Sessions Vol 1, I noted the promise of the title and looked forward to Auckland-based Neilson getting back around the table in her brother's house in Canada to deliver a follow-up.
This time she took with her singer-songwriter Lauren Thomson who plays guitar, sings back-up in places here and shares the lead on the rollicking and salty co-write No Good For My Soul -- which also appears on Thomson's Chanteuses and Shotguns album recorded at the same time.
Neilson is a gifted songwriter who has that skill of being able to find a deep emotion and deliver it with convincing honesty. Between the opener (a foot-stomp, harmonica-honk spiritual Hey Mama) and the closer (a soaring a cappella treatment of Don Gibson's country classic Sweet Dreams, the hit for Patsy Cline, recorded back in New Zealand) Neilson essays gentle bluegrass, insightful ballads and some goodtime country (among them a version of McCartney's I've Just Seen a Face).
Neilson also has a way with an intelligent, self-aware lyric as on the measured , sentimental but never mawkish Great Day: "Grow up, got married, don't the days fly fast. Half of my tomorrows are in the past. Now supper's in the oven and it won't be long, and I'm in the kitchen singing homemade songs. It's a great day to be loved".
The centrepiece is the soul-baring and melancholy This Town which sounds like a newly minted country classic in the manner of Kris Kristofferson at his best: "When I roll into this town, first thing I wanna do is leave . . .the gossips' hands are full of time and somehow it becomes a crime to the nerve to run off chasing dreams."
Those lyrics, delivered slowly over weeping steel guitar, have their counterpoint in the more telling revelation: "When I reach my hotel room, first thing I'm gonna do is cry . . . I'll pour a glass of wine and drink a toast to the nights alone, and endless highways that I roam . . . looking for that home I'll never find".
This kind of writing -- not to mention her restrained but powerful delivery -- is throughout the album: The Bottle and Me is a woman rejected who takes solace in the bottom of a glass: "Yeah I know just what they all think, a woman who can't hold her drink. Why can't they see, that it's holding me".
Neilson -- who co-wrote most of these great songs with her brother/producer/kitchen-owner Jay -- out-writes and out-sings most other country acts these days. This is music which celebrates life in all its joys and sadness. And in the booklet she includes a recipe for pheasant pie too. A generous album on every level.
On Take Me Home she offers, "singing in the cities, every backwoods town, hoping one day to do us proud . . ."
She has done her family -- and herself -- proud. Again."
-Graham Reid, Elsewhere
www.elsewhere.co.nz
This time she took with her singer-songwriter Lauren Thomson who plays guitar, sings back-up in places here and shares the lead on the rollicking and salty co-write No Good For My Soul -- which also appears on Thomson's Chanteuses and Shotguns album recorded at the same time.
Neilson is a gifted songwriter who has that skill of being able to find a deep emotion and deliver it with convincing honesty. Between the opener (a foot-stomp, harmonica-honk spiritual Hey Mama) and the closer (a soaring a cappella treatment of Don Gibson's country classic Sweet Dreams, the hit for Patsy Cline, recorded back in New Zealand) Neilson essays gentle bluegrass, insightful ballads and some goodtime country (among them a version of McCartney's I've Just Seen a Face).
Neilson also has a way with an intelligent, self-aware lyric as on the measured , sentimental but never mawkish Great Day: "Grow up, got married, don't the days fly fast. Half of my tomorrows are in the past. Now supper's in the oven and it won't be long, and I'm in the kitchen singing homemade songs. It's a great day to be loved".
The centrepiece is the soul-baring and melancholy This Town which sounds like a newly minted country classic in the manner of Kris Kristofferson at his best: "When I roll into this town, first thing I wanna do is leave . . .the gossips' hands are full of time and somehow it becomes a crime to the nerve to run off chasing dreams."
Those lyrics, delivered slowly over weeping steel guitar, have their counterpoint in the more telling revelation: "When I reach my hotel room, first thing I'm gonna do is cry . . . I'll pour a glass of wine and drink a toast to the nights alone, and endless highways that I roam . . . looking for that home I'll never find".
This kind of writing -- not to mention her restrained but powerful delivery -- is throughout the album: The Bottle and Me is a woman rejected who takes solace in the bottom of a glass: "Yeah I know just what they all think, a woman who can't hold her drink. Why can't they see, that it's holding me".
Neilson -- who co-wrote most of these great songs with her brother/producer/kitchen-owner Jay -- out-writes and out-sings most other country acts these days. This is music which celebrates life in all its joys and sadness. And in the booklet she includes a recipe for pheasant pie too. A generous album on every level.
On Take Me Home she offers, "singing in the cities, every backwoods town, hoping one day to do us proud . . ."
She has done her family -- and herself -- proud. Again."
-Graham Reid, Elsewhere
www.elsewhere.co.nz
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