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See also Andy Baylor's Cajun Combo, The Dancehall Racketeers, The Honeydrippers
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Instruments: guitar, vocals, violin, mandolin
Andy Baylor is a veteran of the music industry, having been playing
professionally since the mid 1970's. From his early R&B band The Honeydrippers,
Andy played in a "hillbilly" band, The Autodrifters, before moving to Sydney
to play country rock with Hit and Run.
After returning to Melbourne, Andy formed The Dancehall Racketeers, who went
on to tour extensively around the country during the 1980s, playing a diverse
range of music from rockabilly, country, cajun, and swing, through to rock,
R&B and the blues. Robert Plant heard the Racketeers play in Sydney, and
invited them to support him on an Australian tour. The Racketeers went on to
win many awards at the Tamworth Music Festival.
After this, Andy spent a couple of years working and playing his way around
the U.S.A., meeting and playing with the likes of David Grisman, Flaco Jimenez,
Dewey Balfa and Johnny Gimble.
On returning to Australia, Andy formed Andy Baylor's Cajun Combo and now
divides his time between freelancing as a jazz/blues guitarist, and fronting
the Cajun Combo.
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