West Virginia, Mustang Country Music Club, Canvey Island - 6th September 1993 скачать в хорошем качестве

West Virginia, Mustang Country Music Club, Canvey Island - 6th September 1993

Liverpool band West Virginia have been one of Britain's most popular and hard-working country bands for nearly 42 years. In their late teens, brothers Arthur (bass) and Keith (rhythm guitar) Thornhill (both working as painter and decorators) along with milkman Mike Brown (lead guitar), Eric Lloyd and Brian Nicholls (drums), decided to form a group. They called themselves The Road Liners but later changed it to West Virginia. Keith and Arthur's mother was a singer with the Joe Loss orchestra, so they comes from a family with musical influence. They immediately started making an impact on the country music scene getting plenty of work nationwide. Sadly Eric died and the band carried on as a four piece. They won the Malboro country music talent competition in the Wembley conference centre in 1978. They picked up work touring with such legends as Marty Robbins, Don Everly and Merle Haggard. They won top band award in the Great Britain Country Music Awards broadcast on BBC Radio 2 they also appeared on television in Pebble Mill and on Scottish television. In the early 1990s they went to Nashville to record the album 'Blue Rendezvous' which soon became album of the year. The song was written for the band by Kenny Johnson and won song of the year. Drummer Brian left (to play with the Phil Haley Band, a Bill Haley Tribute band) and his replacement Tony Peck (formerly with John Derek and Wishbone) was an inspired choice. He is a great drummer but also a very funny man. West Virginia have always had a great sense of fun and so 'The Pekker' fitted right in. In 2007 West Virginia became the 6th inductee into the British Country Music Hall Of Fame and have had the same line up since the arrival of Tony Peck. Keith and Arthur have now expanded into the holiday market. To work this, they created their own roster of artists operating as Cloud 9 Entertainments to help keep the club scene alive. West Virginia now only perform as a band at Cloud 9 events but Keith and Arthur are still busy performing as the Thornhills Duo. I hope you like my video, if you do please like and/or comment on You Tube as this will improve our You Tube rankings which encourages YouTube to promote British country music videos. It is working. For notification of new videos, please subscribe and ding the bell. Most of all... Enjoy.