First realease from the cutting “Hedge” of bluegrass 🙂
Bluegrass has always held a special place in Andrew’s heart as the many visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival Bluegrass Breakfasts & Competions can attest.
For Andrew things started cooking bluegrass wise through his mid-highschool English teacher, Geoff Bridgland and became the BlackMountain Boys. Soon his brother Alex learnt Banjo & they were doing duo floorshows round Adelaide.
The Uni Folk Club pointed him to the Fountain Inn where he joined newgrass band, Remnants, (the old tapes are not lost!). He also linked up with some young acoustic adventurers and formed, Nuclear Shoes, with the experimentation he persued the rest of his life. All this alongside vocal group, Shut the Gate, with Peter Hisco while doing Mechanical Engineering? (Well guess what he ne’r
finished!).
Winning 3 Bluegrass Guitar Championships while pickin & grinnin across the country with Brian Young; Golden Guitar Award & LP record (mid 80s) with the Three Chord Wonders, a hot Live CD with BackBeat entering the 90s; touring with the legendary Tom T Hall (USA) and then began tangling with multi-Banjo Champ Dave Hellens over the next decade to finally form….
…at the cutting Hedge of Bluegrass!!!!…..a band with no sense of humour!!….


