COUNTRY music could be heard in the streets of Billericay as a celebrated singer came to the town for Record Store Day.
Kacey Musgraves, American country music artist, performed at Slipped Discs, High Street, to a crowd of fans. More than 200 people crammed into the music store on Saturday to hear to her set and those who could not get in listened from outside.
Record Store Day is an annual event held to celebrate independent record shops across the country. As well as hosting the country singer the Billericay store also sold exclusive vinyl editions of records which could not be bought online.Shop owner Carl Newsum said: "It was very good there were more people than last year - it seems to keep getting more popular each time round.
"There was a queue before 7am of people waiting to get in and in the afternoon we had Kacey Musgraves who was very popular – she had been on BBC earlier that morning. She had a very good response especially considering she is a country singer as it's not really a big market in this country."
Speaking to the crowd Miss Musgraves said: "I come from a really small town and that's what inspired this.
"Thank you so much for coming it really does mean so much to have you here – I can't wait to come back."
