The Finest 'Arvest Of The Wurzels featuring Adge Cutler
The Wurzels - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels

EMI Gold 527 0462 (CD)
EMI Gold ??? (cassette)

Release Date: 3rd July 2000

This compilation is made up of a mixture of tracks by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels and the later 1970s incarnation of The Wurzels. It contains some hitherto rare tracks as well as much of the best-known material. It was issued in response to demand from fans, and the Wurzelmania! site is proud to have played a part in getting it released! The CD's sleeve notes are by Paul Gunningham, leading Wurzologist and a former editor of the Wurzelmania! and Scrumpy & Western websites.

Note: Finest 'Arvest was re-issued in 2001 after the chart success of the Combine Harvester Remix with a slightly different track listing to include that track.

1. Combine Harvester - The Wurzels [e]
2. I Am A Cider Drinker - The Wurzels [f]
3. Morning Glory - The Wurzels [f]
4. The Blackbird - The Wurzels [e]
5. Farmer Bill's Cowman - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [c]
6. Drink Up Thy Zider - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [a]
7. Twice Daily - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [a]
8. Chitterling - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [j]
9. All Over Mendip - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [c]
10. Champion Dung Spreader - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [a]
11. Don't Tell I Tell 'ee - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [j]
12. You Don't Get Drunk On A Saturday Night - The Wurzels [h]
13. My Threshing Machine - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [j]
14. Pill Pill - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [a]
15. Down The Nempnett Thrubwell - The Wurzels [e]
16. I Love To Swim In The Zider Zea - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [i]
17. I Got My Beady Little On Thee - The Wurzels [h]
18. Keep Yer 'and On Yer 'alfpenny - The Wurzels [e]
19. Market Gardener - The Wurzels [d]
20. Back Of My Old Car - The Wurzels [j]
21. I Wish I Was Back On The Farm - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [j]
22. Wurple Diddle I Do - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels [b]
23. I'll Never Get A Scrumpy Here - The Wurzels [h]
24. Rock Around The A38 - The Wurzels [f]

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'Ark at 'em Yur!

Now you can listen to some Real Audio sound clips from the CD - here on the Wurzelmania! website, by kind official permission of EMI Records, London, England.

You'll need a suitable player capable of playing Real Audio - if you haven't got one you can download one from The Real Audio website for free!

Note: These Real Audio extracts have been encoded at a much lower sound quality than the CD - this is so that they won't take ages to download. They're just to give those who haven't heard The Wurzels or Adge Cutler an idea what some of the songs sound like. The CD is of course recorded in glorious Wurzelphonic 44.1KHz 16-bit stereo!

Wurzelmania! thanks EMI Records for making the above excerpts available.

• The Combine Harvester (77KB, 30sec) Vocal: Pete Budd
• I Am A Cider Drinker (72KB, 27sec) Vocal: Pete Budd
• The Blackbird (76KB, 29sec) Vocal: Pete Budd
• Farmer Bill's Cowman (76KB, 29sec) Vocal: Pete Budd
• Drink Up Thy Cider (76KB, 29sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler
• Twice Daily (74KB, 28sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler
• The Champion Dung Spreader (77KB, 30sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler
• Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee (75KB, 29sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler
• Pill, Pill (77KB, 30sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler
• Down In Nempnett Thrubwell (76KB, 29sec) Vocal: Tommy Banner
• The Back Of My Old Car (76KB, 29sec) Vocal: Tony Baylis
• The Wurple Diddle I Do Song (76KB, 30sec) Vocal: Adge Cutler & The Wurzels

Sound extracts © EMI Records - not to be reproduced without permission.

Finest 'Arvest outer sleeve artwork

Finest 'Arvest inner sleeve with track listings

Finest 'Arvest sleeve photos

Finest 'Arvest sleeve notes