Paisley is the largest town in Scotland, located just a few miles from Glasgow on the banks of the White Cart Water.
Although most famous for its textiles, Paisley was also home to a number of other industries including food manufacturers - marmalade, cornflour, mayonnaise, baby food and soup have all be made in the town.
Top attractions include Paisley Abbey, Coats Observatory, Thomas Coats Memorial Church and Gleniffer Braes Country Park.
Expatriate Aussie stars Jedd Hughes and O'Shea join Georgian born superstar Alan Jackson and Texan Miranda Lambert on the climax of their down under debut tour in March.
They also appear with Lambert on Nu Country TV, hosted by Mid Pacific Bob Olson, on Elvis's birthday - Saturday January 8 at 9.30 p m on C 31.
And Gippsland singer Darcy Fox debuts with a little help from friends in a collage of Melbourne icons adorning her summer song.
The show is repeated Monday - 3.30 a.m., Tuesday 4.30 pm, Wednesday - midnight and is accessed online at the C 31 web page.
Quorn born Jedd Hughes has soared through the songwriting and session stratosphere since leaving his homeland to nurture his talent in Texas and Tennessee.
Hughes played guitar with other Kentucky Coalminer's Daughter Patty Loveless and wrote and performed with Texan tourists Rodney Crowell, Jack Ingram and Terry McBride.
Hughes wrote 80 songs with McBride from April 2002-March 2003 after the Texan discovered him at the South Plains College at Levelland in the Lone Star state panhandle.
Now Hughes, who also wrote songs for fellow expats Greencards and ABC national radio host Felicity, joins Sarah Buxton in the duo Buxton Hughes.
Buxton wrote smash hit Stupid Girl for expat Australasian superstar Keith Urban and Sweet And Wild for Dierks Bentley who toured here in 2009 as support for Brooks & Dunn.
Hughes and Buxton have collaborated on more than six score songs to be culled to a baker's dozen for their debut duo CD.
"About two months before Christmas, 2009, we wrote about 60 songs, I think. We really hammered down and got into it. I love writing with him. He's really fun to write with and a great guitar player."
Buxton hails from Lawrence, Kansas, - same town as BR5-49 founder Chuck Mead, and was once in a Dixie Rock band called Stoik Oak.
Buxton released her Almost My Record EP for Lyric Street in 2007 but parent company Disney closed the label shortly after releasing her self-titled album in 2010.
She released singles Innocence, That Kind Of Day, Space and Outside My Window - the latter reached Top 20 aided by video.
Buxton Hughes performed Country Throwdown tour with Ingram, Jamey Johnson, Eric Church, Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town, Eli Young, Heidi Newfield, Ryan Bingham and Lost Trailers.
The duo will perform its new songs on its Australian tour that includes CMC Rocks The Hunter at Hope Estate at Pokolbin on March 5 and 6.
Hughes revives his video this week for embryonic hit High Lonesome from his debut U.S. album Transcontinental on major label Mercury.
The duo performs at CMC Rocks The Hunter as O'Shea after finalist roles on American reality TV show Can Your Duet?
Mark, youngest of nine children, hails from flood ravaged rural Dalby in Queensland, and wife Jay is from Adelaide.
Jay's Aussie Open Singing Championships $75,000 prize enabled her to move to London for a publishing deal with Warner Chappell.
She penned a #1 pop song in Europe and toured as a backing vocalist for Australian rock legends, INXS.
They recorded EP Live At The Blue Bar Version 2.0, and toured with acts diverse as Phil Vassar, Jimmy Wayne, Sara Evans, Oak Ridge Boys and Gretchen Wilson.
Jay and Mark write songs individually and as a duo with hit-makers such as Dave Berg, Tim Nichols, Warren Brothers and Shawn Colvin.
Miranda Lambert and Alan Jackson open their Australian tour with Jasmine Rae at Rod Laver Arena on Friday March 4.
Lambert, 27 and Oklahoma born fiancé Blake Shelton recently won six gongs at the CMA Awards in Nashville.
Pickler, 23 and engaged to fellow songwriter Kyle Jacobs, recorded the Catherine Britt penned tune Lucky Girl.
They live in a $1.4 million Nashville home they share with a marmoset monkey, a Chihuahua named Moo Moo, cat Pickles and the python she adopted last year.
Huge selling trio Lady Antebellum won't be bringing pets when they tour here in April with Keith Urban.
But Jackson gave predicted 2011 tourist Zac Brown a 1966 Cadillac at a concert in Nashville on December 29.
The Georgian born superstar gave his fellow Georgian the Caddie as a reward for their duet on their #1 hit As She's Walking Away.
Fellow star Carrie Underwood guest-starred on the show last year as a pharmaceutical rep and Kenny Rogers appeared as himself singing an emotional tribute to a deceased dog.
Boonville born belle Sara Evans returns to Nu Country with a song she performs in new Tim McGraw-Gwyneth Paltrow movie Country Strong. The Missouri minstrel performs the video for A Little Bit Stronger - one of the writers was Lady Antebellum singer Hilary Scott.
It could be about the stormy life of Evans, now 40 and mother of three, who boomeranged from a bitter divorce battle with Republican power broker Craig Schelske whom she wed on September 25, 1993.
Evans, whose 2007 divorce followed her appearance on Dancing With The Stars, has been happily betrothed to Birmingham sports broadcaster and former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker since 2008.
Evans endorsed former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson - a 6 ft 6 in lawyer who played D A Arthur Branch in five series of Law & Order and was romantically linked to the six times wed fellow country star Lorrie Morgan between divorces - for Republican Party leadership in the 2008 election.
President Barack Obama won that election after guesting on stage with fellow L.A. college mates in Austin, Texas, with their iconic western swing band Asleep At The Wheel.
Morgan's sixth husband is NFL Hall of Famer Randy White - a defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys from 1975-88.
Multi-platinum seller Sara's 1997 roots country debut disc Three Chords & The Truth was produced by ex Dwight Yoakam studio and stage ace Pete Anderson.
"I loved it instantly," Evans said of her new hit - also on her sixth album Stronger set for release on March 8.
"Everybody's gone through some sort of heartbreak, whether it's losing someone to death or just breaking up with somebody that you were in love with. The very first line says, 'Woke up late today, and I still feel the sting of the pain.' We've all been there, where we wake up and, for just a second, we forgot. Then, all of a sudden we remember, and it just comes flooding back. The song talks about getting stronger, and that's the attitude that you have to have."
Evans released debut novel The Sweet By and By, written with Rachel Hauck, in January 2010 - a sequel Softly And Tenderly is due this month.
The book is about Jade Fitzgerald, a young woman who finds redemption in Christ as she confronts the un-salved wounds of a stormy childhood with a wild, unpredictable mother, even as she inches closer to her own wedding. Some characters and parts of the setting are taken from Evans' experience.
Sultry seventeen year-old Soprano Darcy Fox is the latest Gippsland reared singer to expose her talents on video.
The third generation Moe minstrel follows in the slipstream of female peers Tracy Lee Killeen, Victoria Baillie and The Bowman sisters from Jetty Road.
Another Gippsland export - award-winning fiddler Hamish Davidson - also guests on Fox's video for I'm Here.
Check out the famed Melbourne and suburban landmarks in the collage already igniting thousands of hits on her MySpace page.