Category Archives: Rare Records

Around The World In 80 Record Stores – Book Review

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Tony
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Rudeboy : The Story Of Trojan Records

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Tony

By Garth Cartwright Running from November 1st -18th London’s Doc ‘N Roll film festival offers up 28 music documentaries that range from a study of ‘lost’ Ethiopian jazz of the 1960s through to a scholarly overview of Tunbridge Wells’ panto’ … Continue reading →

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‘The Blues Come To Texas’ To Be Published

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Tony

Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s unfinished 500 page book to be published on January 29th, 2019 From October 1959 until sometime in 1974, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what was to be a definitive history and analysis of … Continue reading →

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How They Got Over: Black Quartets and the Road to Rock’n’Roll

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Tony

SCREENING: 17th November 2018 at 16:00 LDN – Picturehouse Central Dir. Robert Clem, 2017, USA, 87 mins UK Premiere + Q&A with the director and producer hosted by author Viv Brough In the decades following the Second World War, the … Continue reading →

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New 4 CD Rare Blues Set: ‘Tough Enough’ Down Home Blues: New York, Cincinnati & The North Eastern States.

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Tony
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Australia’s biggest record collection is up for sale

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Tony

After accumulating over 80,000 records over half a century, the passing of Aussie record collector Ken Perkins (originally from the UK) has left Australia’s biggest record collection up for sale. The extensive collection was passed down to his daughter Natalie … Continue reading →

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Trailer: ‘Should’ve Been There’ The Story of The Melody Maker

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Tony

Directed by: Leslie Ann Coles and starring: Barrie L Wentzell, Ian Anderson, Eric Burdon, Alan Jones, Sonja Kristina, Peter Whitehead  – behind the scenes peek at all the rock ‘n roll legends of the 1970s, as director Leslie Ann Coles … Continue reading →

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Battle Ground Korea – Songs And Sounds Of America’s Forgotten War

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Tony

Box set specialist Bear Family are to releasea four CD set ‘Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America’s Forgotten War’, on March 23rd. Bear Family Records have assembled an impressive four-CD anthology that is part 1950s American soundtrack and part … Continue reading →

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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of UK Record Shops

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Tony

A new book by Garth Cartwright called ‘Going For A Song’ will explore the history of UK record shops – from the age of the wax cylinder to the days of dubstep and the recent resurgence of vinyl. It will describe … Continue reading →

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Detroit Record Man – Joe Von Battle

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Tony

Joe Von Battle was a self-made man, who followed a well-trod path from the rural South to the urban north during the Great Migration. His Detroit record shop not only sold the sounds of the black South — blues and … Continue reading →

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