''This 1993 recording is a kind of chamber music version of Balham Alligators: an acoustic crazed, bon temps roulez mix of blues, zydeco, and country all percolated via sarf London. It doesn't so much swing as swagger, stagger and stroll with Watkins doing his Clifton Chenier thing, growling through 'Monsieur Concorde' nd 'C'est Ca'. But this is very much a trio record with Hart deft throughout and Rickard's guitar keeping the tempos thoroughly nailed down, not to mention getting heartbreakingly lonesome on the ballad 'Love has no Pride.'' Andy Robson Jazzwise

" You have in your hands a rare artefact from the late 20th Century. It clearly dates from a time when musicians still performed on their own instruments, and when the accordion, an early portable keyboard used here, could still legally be played in public. The fiddle (violin) and guitar were stringed instruments. There are numerous references to towns and locations in Tierra Latina, then known of course as the USA, and the geo-computer analysis of all these produces a mean collated grid reference of 33 5N 107 55W, or 12 imperial miles south-west of a town in old New Mexico called Truth Or Consequences. The significance of this is hard to imagine. But surely it marks the location of the Border of the title. " Taken from The Sleeve note by Fred Quimby, Strine Music Archives, Darwin, May 2086 (sic)