When the world opened their door to Darrell Banks’ heart.
Traditionally, record companies will always back a 45 A-side with a slightly less strong B-side – sometimes, American labels would simply place the instrumental backing track on the flip side. Occasionally, the B-side is considered stronger than the top side and DJs flip the disc to capitalise. An even rarer occurrence is when both sides ...
Brother Jack, Slim, Little Milton, JB & More 45s
Brother Jack McDuff and the demise of Soul LPs. Recently I extracted about fifty absolutely mint LPs from my collection by greats such as Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker and the Modern Jazz Quartet all on late 50s and early 60s UK labels such as London and HMV. I’d previously tried to sell them ...
Junior Wells Discography
Last of the original harp men Born Amos Wells Blackmore Jr on 9th December 1934 in either Memphis TN or West Memphis AR. Young Amos was encouraged by his cousin Junior Parker to play the harmonica, and after he moved to Chicago with his mother in 1948 he played with the Aces before sitting in ...
Soul Club Flyers
The often astronomic prices that vintage concert and gig posters now achieve is well documented as you may recall from a previous blog on this site. Usually each performance would only require a couple of posters to be produced, these were therefore either hand painted or screen printed in very small numbers and frequently acquired ...
Come & Get These Memories #11
Members Only… In 1960s Britain an almost unique phenomenon occurred by which music clubs erupted, almost out of nowhere that played virtually 100% black music for an almost exclusively white clientele. This was the Mod cum soul scene that lingered on in the North and Midlands to the end of the decade to evolve into ...
From Detroit to DC…
After yesterday’s knockout Detroit mix from Brad Hales, how about a trip south to Washington DC to check out the compilations put together by Kevin Coombe of the DC Recordings site? Kevin, aka DJ Nitekrawler, runs the impressive DC Recordings site which catalogues funk, soul and R&B – and everything in between from Go Go ...
