Interview: Australian country star James Blundell invites us to “come on in” and enjoy his new album

By Adrian Peel on August 25, 2015

Despite his fame, Keith Urban was not the first Aussie country star to sign a record deal in Nashville. That honour actually goes to James Blundell, a 50-year-old singer/songwriter from Queensland, who put pen to paper a few years after winning Best New Talent at the Country Music…

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Adrian Peel

Adrian has been writing professionally for 11 years. In 2007, he completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism at Harlow College and has had work published in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada and Mexico. Magazines and websites that have carried his articles, features and reviews include: 'The Chap' 'Country Music People' 'Country Line Magazine' 'Maverick' 'Country Standard Time' 'Country Update' 'La Mosca en la Pared' 'Milenio' '24 x Segundo' www.suite101.com www.digitaljournal.com He contributed to the 2013 book, 'Voices from the Railway: How the Railways Changed Our Lives' by Julian Holland and in December 2014 released his own book about the Mexican influence on country music, entitled 'Tequila, Señoritas and Teardrops': http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9673-0.