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Guitars chime, lap steels soar, the drums lay down a relentless groove. Friends such as Jen Anderson (Black Sorrows) and Marcy Taylor (Ruckus) fiddle up a storm, banjos & mandolin weave in and out of the mix. Alt country meets classic country meets folk meets pop. The sound is Pete Kenyon and the Wake, a Melbourne-based band whose soon-to-be released debut album - Long Hard Labour of Love - has already received strong positive industry feedback, with the first single and title track gaining national airplay. A lover of classic song-writing, Pete finds the ‘3 chord’ simplicity of country inspiring. “Country music’s built around the body” says Pete, “Like Celtic music, it’s based on the dance. It’s human music, just by the melody alone. And there’s so many links between country and pop." Pete’s love of simplicity goes back to early musical inspirations like John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Dave Edmunds, and the late, great Marc Bolan (who once wrote one of his biggest, &