IT'S a case of snippets of information this week to reveal country delights coming your way.

Kelly Willis (Country's alternative goddess) releases the long awaited Translated From Love album after an absence of five years.

Beth Neilsen Chapman releases Prism, a collection of songs celebrating the spectrum and spiritual diversity of the human family. She also appears at the Sage Gateshead on November 28.

Also appearing at the Sage is Guy Clark, on September 25. Legendary singer/songwriter John Prine appears at the Sage on October 17.

EmmyLou Harris releases a four-CD set, Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems, of favourite tracks from Gram Parson days to recent work with Mark Knopfler.

Kenny Chesney has a new offering, on Sony/BMG, called Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates. Steve Earle and John Fogerty fans will enjoy Earles' Washington Square Serenade and Fogerty's first album of new material on Fantasy Records in 35 years, appropriately entitled Revival.

Sadly, the long-established country club at Brandon WMC has folded, but a new country night has opened aty Meadowfield British Legion on Sunday evenings.

Congratulations to the Lazy C Country Club which celebrates a run of 30 years, latterly on Tuesday nights at Bowburn WMC.