The Wurzels are an English Scrumpy and Western band from the West Country county of Somerset, founded by Adge Cutler and band manager John Miles in 1966 as Adge Cutler & The Wurzels. The band adopted
Banner and Budd performing at the 2011 Wychwood Festival
A memorial statue of Adge Cutler stands outside the Royal Oak pub in Nailsea, where the band first recorded.
Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel, also called mangold, mangel beet, field beet, fodder beet and root of scarcity, is a cultivated root vegetable. It is a variety of Beta vulgaris, the same species that
The Wurzels
…changes. They, being fans of the club, also wrote Bristol City's anthem. The name of the band was dreamt up by founder Adge Cutler. It is short for mangelwurzel, a crop grown to feed livestock. The Wurzels' particular "genre" of music was named Scrumpy and Western after the group's first EP of the same name…
Mangelwurzel
Harvested mangelwurzels in Cornwall, UK, circa 2009.