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Andy Rix with details of a new Shrine Article and info

Andy Rix with details of a new Shrine Article and info magazine cover

Details of an informative article on the legendary Shrine label

One of the DMSC regular dj team not only manages to entertain big style at Lowton over the weekend with partners in crime and DMSC regular dj Rob Thomas and John Poole He also helps spread the word with news of a new lengthy informative article on the legendary Shrine label. Which has been published on the website of major newspaper Washington Post

 

Link to Washington Post article is no longer active - see comments below for updated link

Washington's Lost Soul
By David Segal May 11, 2003


The band is drunk. Not falling-down drunk, but more than tipsy, and it's only midnight, which means the band will soon be loaded. Edgewood Studios on K Street is packed with musicians and well-wishers, including Bo Diddley, who lives nearby. And over in a corner stand the Cavaliers, a five-man vocal group and the stars of this session, here to record a rowdy, 2 1/2-minute R&B track called "Do What I Want."

It's the autumn of 1966, and this is the Cavaliers' last chance. Every member of the Washington group is about 30 years old, which is borderline past-it in the pop business. The group knows that if "Do" doesn't chart, the dream of singing and touring full time is doomed. But it's hard to worry tonight. There's a party mood at Edgewood: The musicians, more soused by the hour, keep fumbling the tempo, and to give the song some roadhouse ambiance, the crowd is whooping and shouting through each take.

A couple of weeks later, a local label called Shrine Records releases "Do What I Want."...





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The Washington Post Shrine Article from 2003 mentioned above can now be read in full via the link below, along with on the same page, a 'more recent' (as in 2012) article from the author titled 

The resurrection of Melvin Butler, Eddie Daye & other forgotten DC record artists

 

Washington's Lost Soul
D.C.'s Answer to Motown Failed Nearly 40 Years Ago, But Today Shrine Records Is a British Treasure.

By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 11, 2003; Page N01

 

https://wemezekir.blogspot.com/2012/04/resurrection-of-melvin-butler-eddie.html

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The Shrine stock in 1968 was still mainly held on the shelves of Waxie Maxies record warehouse on 14th St in DC. Round the corner (on 7th St) was Waxie Maxies main record store. In the 1968 riots triggered by the slaying of Martin Luther King both buildings were attacked and burnt out. Hence the lack of Shrine vinyl for us collectors to chase.  

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