Tale of The Tapes: a web article

Stumble upon on travels round the web, suppose at times must be guilty of re-cycling well known tat, but as work on a "if its first I heard about it, slight chance someone else may not be aware"  .....will continue

Here's news of an article from The Courier-Journal, a  website from Louisville,  Kentucky all about a find of studio tapes

a few brief clips  from  the article below

Louisville's music history

The tale of the tapes

Decades of music wait to be unraveled, heard

By Jeffrey Lee Puckett

............sit several decades of Louisville music, waiting to be heard. The boxes of tape are cracked and splitting. Some of the tape is threatening to crumble.

The great Harvey Fuqua is stacked on top of the Bluegrass Alliance. There's also gospel music by former boxer Jimmy Ellis, Midnight Star, Bodeco, Abraham Rush, Nick Clooney and Gary Burbank.On a shelf against the wall are Wayne Young, the Dynamic Invaders, Bob Braun, the Fanatics, Billy Paul, Kenny and the Accents, Dorothy Boy, the Aristocrats.......................

..........Smith is a soul singer from Cincinnati who did well regionally and became a cult figure in England, where the Northern Soul scene often embraced minor American performers. Cincinnati's Chris Burgen, 27, is a music historian who has been helping Cincy's soul veterans re-release their music.

"The significance (of the tapes), at least to someone who's interested in quality soul music from the time period, cannot be overstated," Burgen wrote in an e-mail. "Kenny Smith is a bit of a minor legend in some parts of the world. …

Full article can be found at the Courier Journal website http://www.courier-journal.com