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Jasmine Rae, Peter McWhirter, McAlister Kemp and Shea Fisher (from left)

Breaking Point: Country Special - with free downloads

23 August 2010

For this week's special Country Issue, we profile four of Australian's shining new stars - Jasmine Rae, Peter McWhirter, McAlister Kemp and Shea Fisher.

Jasmine Rae
From: Melbourne
Key Track: Look It Up

The first most would have heard of Jasmine Rae was when she was nominated for an ARIA award last year, for her brilliant debut album Look It Up.

Rae has gone from strength to strength, becoming the first locally based country artist to obtain over 1 million plays on Myspace. In 2008 she was invited to perform at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville; the following year Brooks and Dunn invited her to support their national arena tour. Rae is set to debut her second album early next year.

Download Jasmine's track Ain't The Same Girl for free

Peter McWhirter
From: Camden
Key Track: I Will Stand By You

McWhirter didn’t have to wait long for success; he had barely come of age when his debut single Humm raced to the top of the country music video charts. Now he has backed up this achievement with a remarkable debut album, Lucky As A Seven which showcases his great songwriting skills and belies his young age. The album flirts with folk, indie pop and blues, indicating that McWhirter may cross over into the commercial pop radio world, if given support.

Download Peter's song Humm for free


 
 

McAlister Kemp
From: Kempsey/Moree
Key Track: It Don’t Buy You Love

McAlister Kemp is the union of two successful country artists - Drew McAlister and Troy Kemp. The fruits of their collaboration, All Kinds Of Tough crosses the two artists’ senses of humour with bittersweet tales that are quintessentially Australian. All Kinds Of Tough has been the highest selling debut country album so far this year, debuting at #8 on the ARIA Country Sales charts in January. The next steps this duo take in the musical world will be interesting to watch.

Download McAlister Kemp's Don't Buy You Love for free

Shea Fisher
From: Victoria
Key Track: Don’t Chase Me

Fisher is absolutely smashing it in the US at the moment. Her debut US single Don’t Chase Me has been given strong support by US Cable channels CMT and GAC, which will bode well for her next American release in 2011.In Australia, Fisher has had four #1 singles on the Country Music Channel, with Suitcase crossing over to Video Hits. Aside from all this, Fisher is a former national rodeo champion!

Download Shea's Another Day in the Sun for free
 

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