Eddie Blackstone was the Cheerful landlord at the Horseshoe Inn Combe Down in Bath Somerset when we last met in 1978. In 1982 I joined the travel industry and thus started summer and winter seasons in the alps leading on to moving away from Bath and losing contact with some of my closest friends for a while. The friendly Landlord was just a stopgap for Eddie bringing up his young family in the west country, unbeknown to me Eddie was always a showbiz man, a standup Comedian, a very good singer, a musician and someone who as a pub landlord was persuaded to get back out on stage, record his many self penned songs and even make records, not to mention bit parts in film's! Eddie had good contacts, he knew the right people and it didnt take long before he settled into country music, made friends with Kelvin Henderson a prominent west country singer and musician and was invited to perform at the Jamborree in the Hill's festival on two occasions in the USA. 40,000 spectators was nothing unusual for a festival of its size, playing alongside many of the internationaly afamed country greats such as Willie Nelson, Jerry lee Lewis and many others.
