Based on an idea for a magazine called Country Music News in 1984, this collection of nine songs debuts the Dr Hoss Spittle Travelling Medicine Show. "Howdy ladies folks gentlemen partners/ country cowboys downhome turnp greens/the frontier the willow season general store country music folks", welcomes the doctor as he draws the curtain back on a 25-minute show with old and new potions for country and town.

So open your door and pull up a chair. As the doctor says: "We got all the types/ sideshows hawkers vendors/ the hypes and expertise here to solve such puzzlers/ and for all us old folks including you and me/ this is good old country music."

There is uptempo country dance with Madison Farm. The soul grooves of Walk The Blues and Snakes And Ladders. The Robert Johnson-inspired Phonograph and Lost At Sea. A nod to New Zealand with Bright Fine Gold written in 1864 on the Tuapeka goldfields. Highly Suspicious intended as a movie theme. Cliff is one of three songs co-written with Garry McAlpine [99 per cent Garry] and a personal highlight from 1976 by the former vocalist of Dunedin group Lutha.