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the Country Music StoreVisit our store at 68 Charlotte St in the heart of the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. We mail order to you all around the world, or you can e-mail us with any questions you might have at any time.
Based
in Brisbane, Australia, we are dedicated to providing the best range of
Country Music to Country Music Fans in Australia and around the world, on
compact disc, cassettes, DVD, videos, books and magazines, and increasingly to
become the full service centre of Country Music in Australia.
The
Country Music Store has been open since 1987 and we have been on the web since
1996, only selling country music. We are proud and grateful of our continuing
relationship with the Country Music industry and the Membership of the Country
Music Association of Australia who have voted us Country Music Retailer of the
Year for 2002, 2003, 2004 and now 2005 .
Ron
Adsett
Owner
& Boss. Ron opened the
Store in 1987, leaving radio where he was music director of a successful
Country Music radio station. Since then he has taken an active role in the
Country Music Industry and it's administration, to encourage it's growth as a
vibrant adult music alternative.
Ron has
worked for over 30 years in the Australian Music Industry, in sales,
marketing and promotion, with major and independent companies. He has
been a Music Director in both Sydney & Brisbane Radio stations in the 70's
& 80's, and presented Country Music programmes on 4BC Brisbane. He was
CMT's (Country Music Television's) first consultant to the Record Industry in
Australia, is a founding and still serving Board Member of the Country
Music Association of Australia (CMAA), and has been a judge of the 
ARIA Awards and the Country Music Awards of Australia over many years and is
long time member of the CMA (USA). Ron also reviews for Capital
News and some of those reviews can be found on the Album
Reviews page. In 2004 he formed the group of industry identities to found
the Bellbird Music
label.
Rosie
Adsett
Co-Owner of the business, Rosie is concentrated
these days on the interest in Country Music studies at a university level and
is doing her PhD at the University of Queensland on this subject. She 
is still involved as a recent judge of the CMAA Country
Music Awards of Australia and is a Reviewer for Country
Update Magazine and you can check out her Album
Reviews here. 
You may also see her name on the bottom of many of the Mail Order forms
if you are already one of our thousands of customers from around the
world. (G'day and thanks to Tom in Canada, Werner in Switzerland,
Cherrian in the Shetland Is, Domenico in Italy, Uwe in Germany, Lisa in
Nashville, Ann in Nova Scotia, Jorgen in Norway and Nancy in Dallas.....
and all our great international friends).
One of her real
passions in the last decade has been the tour that we have taken to FAN FAIR
(CMA Music Festival as it is now known) in Nashville for most of the 1990's. Visit
our Fan Fair Tour Pages for some of the stories of our travels to Country
Music heaven... 
however, with her studies increasing, Ron's record label taking off, it's
unlikely we'll have time to create any more annual tours for some time, though
a reunion tour is always on the cards. The
2000 Tour Diary and Hillbilly
Neil's 2000 Tour photo's are still online. If you have ever wanted to go
to Nashville, or would like to know a little more about our tours of years
past check out our pages here.
Rosie
Underwood
Meryl
Davis (Beryl to her mates) is our handy little filler-in.
When one of us has to be away from the store, at board meetings, album
launches, leading Aussies around Nashville, or what ever, you're likely to
come across her, answering phones, doing lunch, writing letters or getting
orders out. Meryl was for many years until the beginning of 2004, the
Secretary and Event Manager for Qld Champion of Champions and knows just
everyone in the whole Qld Country Music Club community. It is, however, with
great sadness, that we note the passing of her father, the legendary bush
ballad guitarist 
Reyn
Adsett