Introducing...

Take a mix of bluegrass, add a healthy dose of Cajun dance tunes and layer over with some gospel country classics.

Turn the volume up and prepare to dance the night away.

The Rosinators consist of fiddle players Will Sneyd and Fliss Premru with Paul Castle on guitar and banjo.

Sneyd - who featured on a couple of the better Alabama Three albums - and Premru met when she was part of the Cajun dance scene - a scene that I suspect passed most of us by - in an all-girl Cajun band called Joli Blon. A strange name for a band until you realise that it's taken from a traditional 1928 waltz that reappears on the Rosinators first album.

Together they went to see Castle playing in his band the Sons of Fat Harry and, from there, it was a short step to Castle's home studio to record the Kentucky ballad 'Old Joe Clark, which can be up to 90 verses long.

Luckily, the version that ended up on the album isn't quite that long.

Live, the Rosinators are an absolute hoot and a good time is guaranteed.

Sneyd seems genuinely pleased at the audience reaction and Castle comes across like a favourite uncle. Poor Premru stands in the middle quietly trying to keep the boys in line.

Their album is also recommended and consists of a collection of country classics such as I saw the Light, Orange Blossom Special and Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

Then there is a selection of the best Cajun tunes recorded by a British band since the Balham Alligators.

At the end there's a cover of Poncho's Lament written by Tom Waits that bring the album to a gentle but satisfying close.

RICHARD HILTON