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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