Making some progress with the UK firms who sound like country stars. Among the contributions on Facebook are Eddie Stobart (thanks Marco Rossi), Clancy Docwra (Anna Jenkins) plus Edwin Shirley and Eldridge Pope (Will Birch).
A few more and I’ll be able to allocate them the right tunes and start grouping them by sub-genre, viz (as they used to say): ‘White line fever’, Eddie Stobart; ‘Six days on the road’, Edwin Shirley.
Pulling over from the highway to whatever might be Dorset’s equivalent of the honky tonk (it would be in Weymouth, obviously), it’s Eldridge Pope with ‘Tonight the bottle let me down’.
Having a railroad background, Clancy Docwra would be well placed to deliver, say, ‘The wreck of the old 97’ or ‘Green light on the southern’.
Lowering the tone a bit, Will has suggested that Travis Perkins (something related to the building game is needed for him) might render 'Can I go down to the basement (if I fix your leaky roof)’.
I think we need to keep it country, not music hall. And getting no Google result whatsoever for ‘Basement’, I have to query whether it has any history at all. Surely Will wouldn’t have sullied his legacy to popular music by perpetrating this one himself? It would be nearly as bad as writing a song about a laughing gnome or something.
In terms of names, Travis Perkins is still just about top of my chart, but finding material for him isn't easy. Anyone got any country tunes which would fit with the supply of building materials?
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