I
Want To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver
The Wurzels
Loose
Records WURZELCDS1 (CD)
Loose Records WURZELP1 (7" vinyl)
Loose Records WURZELCS1 (cassette single)
Release
Date: 1995
Side 1
- I Want To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver (Jim Andrews,
Tim Barker)
- You Can't Kid A Kidder (Malcolm Mason)
Side 2
- Forty And Bone Dry (Geoff Betsworth)
- Rig Jig (Tommy Banner, Pete Budd, Geoff Betsworth)
The
song was the brainchild of Loose
Records owner Andy Titcombe. The EP was an entry
in the lower reaches of the UK Top 100 and helped re-launch
The Wurzels career in the late 90s through to the new
millennium. Although it seemed a move away from their
agricultural songs, Eddie Stobart also started out in
a farming community years ago. And Eddie Stobart is
probably older (as a firm and as an individual) than
The Wurzels!
Band
line-up: Tommy
Banner
(accordion, keyboard, harmony vocals),
Geoff Betsworth (acoustic guitar, dobro, steel guitar
and harmony
vocals), Pete Budd (banjo and lead vocals)
and Malcolm Mason (guitar, sequences and harmony
vocals).
Becky Hutchison, Emma Richardson, Anna Chaddock and
Sarah Clarke - backing vocals and cheers on I Want
To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver.
Production Arrangements: Malcolm
Mason and Geoff
Betsworth.
Recorded
at Lemon Grass Studio in Cumbria.
Although
the sleeve of the cassette claims that the tracks were
taken "from the forthcoming albums Wurzels,
Hits, The Roads" - this album was never recorded.
Other songs written for the album were never
released.
I
Want To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver was originally
released on three formats:
- a
CD-EP
- a
45rpm shaped picture disc vinyl EP featuring
an approximately 10.5" x 8" drawing of the
Wurzels in the cab of an Eddie Stobart lorry (pictured
below)
- a
cassette-single
The
EP is still available on CD and is now also available
as a Download through the Internet
Record Store CD
Baby. Loose Records are also slowly clearing out
the last of the cassette versions of the release through
eBay.co.uk.
You
will also find the lyrics to I Want To Be An Eddie
Stobart Driver on the CD Baby website. |
