This is where you can read about clubs from their members or club promoters to see what is happening on the Country music circuit. It is updated as and when we receive reports and get the time to include them.
Hickory Lake CMC, Feering, Colchester, Essex
Rick Storm
by Wendy Haylock
7th September 2025
On top form as always, we had Rick Storm at Hickory Lake 0n 7th September and he gave us all a brilliant evening, with his cheeky ways! He gave us a great mix of songs with some new ones added for good measure..Thank you Rick for a very entertaining evening and look forward to the next time.
It was good to meet Jo who runs the Carolina CMC in Kent, who came along to see Rick; it was lovely to meet you Jo. We welcomed Beryl & Mick back after Beryl’s recent hip operation, we have missed you both, and it was good to see you looking very well now Beryl. Also it was Sue’s first time back after the tragic passing away of Big Jim, Sue it was great to see you back again and Big Jim would have been proud of you, we know it must have been hard for you, but you did really well.
The raffle this week was taken care of by myself and Sylve (girl power!) thank you Sylve for taking part you did a grand job, and we thank all who added prizes to the raffle table it’s much appreciated. Also another big thank you to Jan, who stepped in to help Chris in the canteen at the start of the evening in the absence of Bev, and also Mick who did the hall lights in the absence of Phil.
To all our Hickory Lake team of helpers , another huge thank you for all that you each do every week from the start of the evening until the end, you are all top class!..and we truly appreciate your help to us and your club, and that goes to all our supporters who come along, we value the support you give to your club, and this is very much appreciated.
Take care and much Love to you all. Wendy xx
Silver Churn CMC, Dartington, Totnes, Devon
The Stage Robbers
by Phil Jenkins
6th September 2025
It was the first time at the club for a new Somerset based duo, The Stage Robbers who are Kelvin Brinacombe on bass and vocals, who is stranger to the scene having been in, Rebel Yell, Jean Lesley and Country Connection and Highway 38 and Mike Shameless on guitar, keyboards and vocals, another who is well known on the Country scene.A bit low on numbers tonig
We were a bit low on numbers but the main thing is those present enjoyed the very full sound of the band who play a very varied selection of old and new Country, doing a great job on only their second gig together and also managing to do several requests.
We had music from George Strait, Don Williams, Hank Williams Jr and Sr, Randy Travis, Merle Haggard, Luke Combs, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Cody Johnson and Johnny Cash, which kept us all dancing, great stuff.
Thanks to Pam, Bill and Bev for some tasty refreshments, which went down very well.
Roffey CMC, Roffey, West Sussex
Rick Storm
by Nick Catford
2nd September 2025
In the early 1990s a group of friends got together on a Friday evening to play guitars and sing. In 1995 two members of this informal group, Michael Barnes and Rick Pearce formed the Country duo Cheyenne and they stayed together for six years working mainly on the club circuit. As club attendance began to decline Rick Pearce decided to go solo and Rick Storm was born.
Rick is a self-confessed ‘Essex Jack the lad’; full of banter and fun and with a cheeky sense of humour. He seems to have a permanent smile on his face. Perhaps most important, he has a clear rich voice, ideally suited to Country music. Over the years, he has built up a great reputation on the club circuit with a good knowledge of the latest Country songs and which dances will fit. Tonight his programme included a lot of recent songs with a good helping of Country classics. He is clearly a fan of Merle Haggard – aren’t we all.
It was good to be making my first ever visit to the Roffey CMC near Horsham in West Sussex. It was quickly obvious that Rick Storm is very popular at the club and I was pleased to see him speaking to almost everyone before he took to the stage. This really is refreshing and the right thing to do and something that is certainly not practiced by everyone. The club was full tonight with, I was told, some first timers. The dance floor was already throbbing before Rick opened his mouth with Troy Cassar-Daley’s Things I Carry Around. Next was Josh Turner’s Your Man which suits his rich voice. Then it was The Refreshments’ Riverboat Queen and Miranda Lambert’s much requested Ain’t In Kansas Anymore (Rattlesnake Kiss). There was more Miranda Lambert with the excellent Trailblazer a heartfelt tribute to the pioneering women of Country music sung with Reba McEntire and Lainey Wilson; it’s one of my favourite new songs at the moment. A few more that stood out in the first set included Joe Nichols’ Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, Waylon Hanel’s My Kind of Lonely and Merle Haggard’s Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star. Rick took us out of the first set with William Michael Morgan’s Gone Enough.
Roffey has an in-house dance instructor Ruth and Len Chaplin’s son Glenn. He teaches a new dance at the club’s Sunday dance class and in the first 15 minute break members get a last chance to practice it as it will be the opening dance in the second set. Tonight it was Eddie Montgomery’s Brotherly Love. I think they did alright but I’m certainly no expert.
After Shaboozey’s A Bar Song I was please to hear a Nancy Hays song Come Dance With Me. I had the opportunity to see Nancy Hays for the first time earlier in the year. The song was an international hit and was named one of the most popular line dance songs in the world by multiple publications in Europe and the US and here it won the 2024 Crystal Boot Award in Blackpool.
Next we heard Ella Langley and Riley Green’s You Look Like You Love Me, another request, then we heard Lee Brice’s Cry and Neon Union’s Made In Mexico. After The Lennerockers’s High Class Lady it was time for a barn dance to Rodney Crowell’s I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried. Rick finished the second set with Josh Kiser’s I’m Never Drinking Again, Cody Johnson’s ‘Til You Can’t, George Jones’ Billy B. Bad and Roy Orbison’s Penny Arcade
Rick opened set 3 with Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton’s Islands in the Stream; Ty England’s Should’ve Asked Her Faster, Post Malone’s Fallin’ In Love and Chris Janson’s Hawaii On Me
After Jon Pardi’s Boots Off and Blake Shelton’s Sangria, it was time for another Merle Haggard song, the rarely heard Shelly’s Winter Love, a beautiful love song written by Merle but first recorded by Dottie West.
It’s always good to hear a song by our own Dave Sheriff, If anyone is going to sing a Dave Sheriff song you can bet it will be Red Hot Salsa but not so Rick Storm who sang his high speed Walkin’ The Line. I don’t think I have heard that in a club before apart from by Dave himself perhaps.
As the evening drew to a close, Rick sang my all time favourite George Strait song Amarillo By Morning and then finished with Vince Gill’s Loving You Makes Me A Better Man followed by William Michael Morgan’s Missing as an encore. The applause was prolonged and very well deserved with lots of people shouting for more. There was no more but Rick will be back at Roffey next year, that’s a given. Roffey is a very friendly and well run club and I don’t think it will be long before I am heading back down the M23 again.
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