More Wurzels this time with Adge Cutler from 1968 on the EMI label. Supposed to be a live recording but sounds very fake to me - maybe just the way its been edited. The usual old country bumpkin nonsense and terrible jokes and daft ditties about life in the West Country....................................................................................Wikipedia says - "Alan John Cutler was born in Portishead, Somerset. Nicknamed 'Adge' by his friends, from his initials A.J., he lived in the small North Somerset town of Nailsea. He spent his earlier years pursuing various jobs he would use as material for later songs, including road manager for Acker Bilk, working in a cider mill (Coates of Nailsea), and working on building a power station in North Wales. He spent a year in Spain working as an agent looking for property. During his time there he grew to love the country and the Spanish way of life, as well as becoming fluent in Spanish.
In 1972, he married Yvonne, moving to Tickenham, a few miles north of Nailsea.
Cutler's songs are largely sung in his own accent, though some are in an exaggerated Bristolian accent, and one in West Indian dialect. Cutler was influenced by Len "Uke" Thomas, a singer who left no recordings but who sang in the Bristolian dialect and who was a well known Bristol entertainer.
Virtually all of Cutler's recordings are live; one album, "Cutler of the West", was recorded at the Webbington Country Club, which is very easy to see on the M5 motorway, on the slopes of Crook Peak.
[edit]Death
On 5 May 1974, he died when he crashed his MGB sports car on a roundabout in Chepstow, following a Wurzels concert. Cutler is buried in the graveyard of Christ Church, Nailsea."..................................................................................................................................................................
Adge Cutler - Side One
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