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Williamstown country music duo scores top-10 hit

16/09/2015

The Long and the Short of It's Patsy Toop and David Baird

By Goya Dmytryshchak

It’s been a good week for Williamstown country music duo The Long and Short of It.

Patsy Toop and David Baird have climbed the country music charts with Fifty bucks and a case of beer, the third single off their album You made me stronger.

The title track also won an award in the Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists Association international competition.

Toop said the band’s current hit, which hit No.1 in Tasmania and No.5 nationally, was written by Ken Barton, a Nashville songwriter.

“It’s about a busker on Broadway … who sold a song called 16th Avenue to a producer for 50 bucks and a case of beer,” she said. “It went to No.1 and all he got was the 50 bucks and a case of beer.”

The duo will fly to Nashville on September 26 to record its next album.

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