– Customer review on 01/11/2011

Here it is, the sound of scrumpy and western from the 1970s. From the early, and some say classical, cuts of early Wurzels fronted by Adge Cutler (the finest voice in all of North Somerset) to their later chart-topping sound. For me the early Adge Cutler songs are the best. Tap your feet and swill your drink to the anthematic beat of Drink up yer Zider (surely the best drinking song ever sung in the English language), the Wurzelphone induced madness of the Twiddle Eye Dee song and the almost melancholic Down in Nempnett Thrubwell. Sadly, Adge was killed in a car crash in 1974 and the world and North Somerset became a sadder place. However, the rest of the band took up the challenge and with Pete Budd doing vocals they hit the big time with top ten hits like I am A Cider Drinker and Combine Harvester - here reproduced in all their glory. Listening to this brings back all my happy memories of that sunny decade. Bristol City in the First Division (that's English soccer ) and the Somerset cricket team (that's a game a bit like Baseball) beating all comers like later day Olympians. If you think music is about enjoying yourself, drinking fermented apple juice and not about morose spotty faced youths in their bedrooms nor middle-aged middle class people listening to obscure jazz records then this is for you. From the sleepy lanes of Farrington Gurney to the bustling broadways of Bristol, the music of the Wurzels beats on.