The Wurzels is tagged as: Adge Cutler and the Wurzels, renamed The Wurzels after Cutler’s death, are a British Scrumpy and Western band.|The band is best known for its 1976 number one hit The Combine Harvester but has a history stretching nearly 40 years, and still performs to this day.|In its heyday the band was very popular despite disdain from “serious” critics.|The band recently released a new single “One for the Bristol City” and were the centre of a campaign to get it into the charts for September 30th 2007. The band also appeared with members of the Bristol City team to sign any singles bought from Virgin Megastores in the Mall Galleries in Bristol on Thursday the 27th September 2007. The name of the band came from the fodder beet Mangelwurzel. As can be determined from the subject matter of many of their songs, cider is very popular amongst Wurzels and their fans. Their particular “genre” of music has been named “Scrumpy And Western” (scrumpy is a name given to traditional cider). History Adge Cutler and The Wurzels The Wurzels were formed in 1966 as a backing group for singer/songwriter Adge Cutler. With a thick Somerset accent, Adge played on his West Country roots, singing many folk songs with local themes such as cider making... Read More About The Wurzels Biography...  Send The Wurzels ringtones to your cell
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