The Lancashire Hotpots

Scrumpy and western is a humorous, rural-leaning British music style from England’s West Country that playfully pastiches American country & western through a distinctly local lens. It blends English folk song, music-hall/vaudeville comedy, pub-singalong energy and simple country dance rhythms, with lyrics delivered in West Country dialect about cider (“scrumpy”), farming, village life, and cheeky double entendres. Arrangements are typically jaunty and acoustic—accordion/squeezebox, banjo, acoustic guitar, bass and drums, with occasional fiddle or brass—geared for crowd participation, call-and-response refrains, and easy-to-sing choruses.