Sun, sea and stetsons: why St Lucia loves country and western music

Three years ago, Ian Berry went to visit his grandparents, who’d retired to the Caribbean island of St Lucia. “It was their 60th wedding anniversary,” says the film-maker from Portland, Oregon. “So my whole family was there. My dad and I were talking one day and he happened to offhandedly mention that country music was really popular in St Lucia. I thought he was joking, because I’d been there a few times and I’d never heard anything. But he said, ‘No it’s true.’ And he actually leaned back in his chair and turned on the radio on the shelf – and out of the radio came George Jones! I was flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”

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