Uncle Dave O - funny you should mention Tom T Hall and "I Like Beer" During the 1986 Peterborough COuntry Music Festival, a TV crew from "Wrap Around Nashville" programme got in contact with a friend of mine and asked if he could provide some "good ol' British folk singers" to go down to the Bell Hotel at Stilton. Four of us turned up and this guy said "Hi I'm Walt Adams, the producer of Wrap Around Nashville and you're going to perform with Tom T.Hall, the storyteller." We glanced blankly at each other and then at him and he sensed our lack of recognition of this legend of country music (well it wasn't as if he came to the local singaround on a regular basis) "What? - you've never heard of Tom T.Hall, the storyteller??" Anyway in walks Tom T.Hall, the storyteller and he goes on to talk about how quaint it was to be in a "good ol' english beer joint" (The Bell - one of the oldest pubs in the area - a "beer joint"??!! - I ask you). He then went on to sing "I Like Beer" with the four of us providing instant harmony which impressed him no end - so much so that he invited us all to appear at the Grand Ol' Oprey next time we were in Nashville. I've yet to take him up on the offer. He was a good bloke though. The programme went out on US TV a couple of weeks later and they sent us a copy of it to have a look at. So that's my claim to fame as far as country music goes.

What's the song that goes:
Boozing Boozing just you and I
Boozing Boozing when we are dry
Some does it open and some on the sly
But we all love bloody well boozing

Mark