Record Store Day: New Kent Limited Edition Vinyl Ep

Record store day is creeping up (april 16th 2011), here's word of Ace/Kent participation in this ever growing annual event..

Dear all

As we did last year with 'The Stars Of Goldwax', Ace/Kent will be manufacturing a limited edition 7 inch EP, in a full colour glossy pic sleeve, in support of Record Store Day on Saturday April 16th.

This year our RSD EP will be even more exciting than last year, because it will feature four previously unissued tracks from 'The Stars Of Fame' - as, if you like, a prelude to the first of many forthcoming CDs that we are rolling out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of FAME Studios this year.

The tracks that will feature on the EP are:

George Jackson - Search Your Heart (original version of Wilson Pickett's classic)

Ben & Spence - Thief In The Night (original version - we think! - of the Percy Sledge tune that was also done in reggae, by John Holt, as 'Stealing Stealing')

The C & C Boys - Thread The Needle (original version of track that Clarence later recut solo)

Jimmy Hughes - Steal Away '67 Part One (originally thought lost, we discovered the tape for this this after we had released the two JH Fame CDs and decided that it was too good not to issue ASAP!)

The lovely colour cover has features pix of all four artists, and the music is, frankly, fantastic.

I don't know how close everyone will be to a shop that supports Record Store Day - I do know that there's one in downtown Florence, AL if that's a help! - but the 1000 copies of the Goldwax EP sold out pretty quickly, so you'll need to move fast if you want one of these, I would have thought.

I should mention that all four of these tracks will eventually come out on CD, so those who no longer deal in vinyl need not feel that they're missing out in the long term!

If you go to http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk you'll be able to access a list of participating stores across the USA, and a separate list for what they call 'International'. You US guys can find out the names of the nearest participating stores by inputting your state of residence, city of residence or even just your zip.

To test this out, I just brought up the site and put in the zip 19803, which is for Havertown PA, and it gave me a list of eight participating stores across Pennsylvania, some with websites that you can click to from the RSD site.

I would imagine that you'll get something similar for the area surrounding your own zip.

I would imagine, too, that it'll be very easy to get the EP over there, possibly even more so than here in the UK.

Should have mentioned that this release won't be available directly from Ace as we are not a 'Record Store'...

Happy hunting!