Taste of the West [Import]

Wurzels (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Zenith
• ASIN: B0002CH7IE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,304,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pill Pill

2. Sunny Weston Super Mare

3. Virtuet Industrial

4. Down In Nempnett Thrubwell

5. When The Common Market Comes To Staton Drew

6. Shepton Mallet Matador

7. Charlton Mackrell Jug Band

8. Ferry To Glastonbury

9. Bridgwater Town

10. Rock Around The A38

11. Mevagissey

12. Good Ole Somerset

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars *** A Taste of the West ***, January 16, 2006

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Gavin Moore "Gav" (Gateshead. England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taste of the West (Audio CD)

Here we see (or rather hear) that The Wurzels still have what it takes to play and write some excellent top class jaunty tracks to get yer toes a'tappin', sit back and relax with a favourite beverage (preferably cider) and enjoy. I can imagine this will be an excellent CD to listen to in the summer months.
2004's `A Taste of the West' is comprised of 12 tracks, mainly old re-done Wurzels classics such as `Pill Pill' and a personal favourite `The Charlton Mackrell Jug Band' and a couple of new'uns like the superb `Rock around the A38' to whet the appetite for some new Wurzels music.

Another top quality slice of light hearted West country folk as the genre label `comedy' that most people give them isn't good enough as I think they are sooo much more. And as I've said in a past review more people should give this stuff a go.
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Now all we need is EMI to release their much needed back catalogue on some nice brand spankin' new CDs!!
Also if you can find it there's an excellent Wurzels gem knocking around called `I want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver' CD Single from 1995 by Loose Records. Worth the search if you ask me, it's more like a little EP :)

4.0 out of 5 stars nice covers of great orginals, August 27, 2009

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F. Blades (Somerset) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taste of the West (Audio CD)

The Wurzels went into the Sil Willcox's Charlton Farm Studio in East Somerset and re-recorded a dozen of their favourite old Adge Cutler and The Wurzels songs. The songs are linked by Tommy Banner and Pete Budd's between-song banter so that the whole album becomes a journey around the West Country from North Somerset down to Cornwall and back again. The songs are produced quite differently to the originals, so this makes good listening especially alongside the orginal recordings.

I agree with Gavin Moore's review that it would be nicer if EMI could re-issue all Adge Cutler's original albums rather than just Cutler of the West - and then people could hear all of the orginals as they were originally recorded.