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"A Woman Like Me" - Betty LaVette with David Ritz (paperback, £9.99) now available at A Nickel And A Nail, your specialist bookstore for soul, blues and jazz lovers. Follow the link: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/a-woman-like-me-bettye-lavette-with-david-ritz Whilst you are at it, why not have a browse at the titles we have in and sign up for the newsletter updates.

Lad Teens - Keep on roll in' / White rice (inst) - Cadillac ex £150 Mearle Spears - I want to know - Whit vg + £60 Prince Phillip - Keep on talking - Smash ex £40 Sam and Bill - I'll try - UK Brunswick ex don't see many of these £35 Paypal only, postage UK £8 special delivery (requirement on orders over £50), £3 first class sign for; Europe £8 track and sign, contact me for other options. Thanks.

Re the Daydreams, nope! Sorry...

With regards to the country - R&B link in Nashville, key country 'crossover' writers and producers through the 60s included Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden and Bob Johnston (under the disguise of wife Joy Byers for contractual reasons as the rumour goes). Some songs, like Freddie North's "The Hurt", has obvious country influence, though these writers / producers involvement with black artists often leaned very much more toward true R&B / soul than country soul. Their ability to crossover from country to soul in a more than token fashion, was testament to their true musicianship, though also often with Ted Jarrett in the collaboration, who had a desire to create a soul groove more akin with the cities of the north than some country hybrid. Folk will be aware of Buzz / Cason work with Robert Knight, Joe Simon etc. as this perhaps represents their most commercially successful endevours as far as R&B went. Joe Simon on his SS7 stuff admittedly showcases the country-soul thing perfectly (Mac Gayden wrote a lot of his material and managed him for a while). However people forget / don't immediately realise Gayden and Cason were also involved in some of the Hit / Poncello / Spar product. Some may/ not realise that Gayden wrote Herbert Hunter's northern classic, again demonstrating the desire to capture something that was happening elsewhere, as already mentioned. The likes of "I was born to love you" were hardly favourites on Music Row in the mid 60s. As Gerry Fleming of Athens Rogues said of that period, "Nashville could eat its young", and labels were often just too consumed by the country machine.

Heaps of soul related original sheet music at A Nickel And A Nail - great pieces of memorabilia! Follow the link: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/sheet-music-memorabilia Also 15% of all book orders this bank holiday weekend !!!

Now in stock from A Nickel And A Nail, the soul specialist bookstore, Dave's latest books: The Rare Soul Bible - Volume 2: The Continuation of the Northern Soul A-Z £24.99 https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/the-rare-soul-bible-volume-2-the-continuation-of-the-northern-soul-a-z-dave-rimmer and also the 'reissue' of the original: The Rare Soul Bible Volume 1: The Reissue £21.99 https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/the-rare-soul-bible-volume-1-the-reissue-an-a-z-of-northern-soul-dave-rimmer Can even read his ramblings on how he came to write these, on the website blog / news page.

It's Better To Cry - E. Mark Windle £12.99 available at A Nickel And A Nail bookstore: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/products/copy-of-its-better-to-cry-colour-version-e-mark-windle The blurb: 1960s south east USA. A time characterised by racial tension and oppressive Jim Crow laws, but also of a political uprising leading to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and gradual desegregation. For white teenagers this brought easier access to race music and a new dimension in cool: the sound of soul and R&B. Even before the mid sixties, radio stations with wide broadcasting capabilities were promoting national acts to every corner of the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia. Neighbourhood friends, high school students and college bands were inspired to create their own brand of soul to play in the beach pavilions, inland waterway dance clubs, sock hops, frat parties and campus venues. Bands discussed include Bob Meyer and the Rivieras, the Tempests, Anthony and the Aqualads, the Greater Experience, the Delacardos, Athens Rogues and many others. These blue-eyed and integrated beach bands, soul influenced garage bands and vocal groups have long been embraced by the northern soul scene of the UK and Europe. Their music provides a whole other sub-genre for rare soul enthusiasts to investigate. This book brings the era to life, exploring this vibrant music scene in the south east states through interviews, record label scans and previously unseen band photographs. It will serve as an invaluable reference source for northern soul collectors and beach music fans. The author seeks out to make the connection between the rarer end of northern soul and the 1960s beach / soul scene of the Carolinas, Virginia and neighbouring states with this collection of biographies.

Still a few copies left if anybody needs one. Also to mention: all orders made this week at the bookstore will go into the hat for a chance of a hardcover copy of the EP/45s picture cover book "Soul Reflections" (worth £24.99). Drawn on Friday... https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/

Lonnie Lester - You can't go - Nu Tone ON HOLD Excellent condition, label and vinyl. £250 plus postage as special delivery within UK, paypal only please. Cheers, Mark.

The Florence Ballard story at A Nickel And A Nail now, your soul specialist book store. Follow the link.... https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/products/the-lost-supreme-the-life-of-dreamgirl-florence-ballard-peter-benjaminson

Peggy Gaines does an incredible version of it on Night Train (with the Hytones), I've posted it a few times on FB. Pity it was never released. Though no doubt someone will now boot the NT videoclip and flog it as an acetate.

A few of these available at £9.99 each (RRP £14.99) at A Nickel And A Nail link below. One of the hottest reads of the moment! https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/products/young-soul-rebels-a-personal-history-of-northern-soul-stuart-cosgrove

A one stop shop for all soul and R&B literary needs View the full soul link

Cheers Kev! Hopefully something there for everybody, but if anyone is after a title they cant get a hold of and isn't on the site, send me a message via Contact Us on the website and I'll see if my elves can track it down By the way Stuart Cosgrove's "Young Soul Rebels" is fairly cheap on there just now, £9.99 if anybody fancies a copy. Grab em whilst you can Mark.

Launched 5 August 2016, website now open for business Follow the link https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com

Cheers John. Always on the look out for new material and authors.

Cheers mate. Launch day for A Nickel And A Nail has been brought forward to Friday 5 August. Folk can sign up at https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/ for notifications The purpose of this thread is not to push the site per se. Really a call to self-publishing authors to be aware that there is a retail platform available to promote their work alongside usual book stock, to a genre-focused market. Kinda get it out there (alongside Soulsource of course!). The intention is to promote the product but also the writers themselves through newsletter / blog articles etc.

Just finished building the website for A Nickel And A Nail: an independent online book store catering specifically for soul, Motown, R&B. We will be selling new and quality used publications, genre related collectable sheet music and magazines / fanzines. As well as retailing product from traditional publishing houses, the intention is to exist as a platform for the promotion and sale of quality self-published historical reference material, and scene-related themes. Please follow the link below to sign up for news as it occurs re opening dates, news and reviews.... https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com

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Have a question or two on these floating around. NOT just the Charles Sheffield but the whole late 50s swamp blues stuff to mid 60s soul Lightnin Slim, Slim Harpo, Roscoe Shelton, Marion James etc. Can anybody throw any light on where these originated from (Germany maybe) and any definitive way to distinguish, other than just newness. Some are pretty obvious, and some use the 'wrong' label design of the two I think but this isn't common and not consistent. Any dead wax clues, subtle block colour differences etc. ? You can almost smell a mucky Excello original I know !

Cheers Mike

Call out to all self publishers. I am taking stock for an online bookstore specialising in soul and R&B, due to open September. I am interested in using it as a platform to promote and sell quality works by self publishing authors on soul, R&B music, and scene related works (northern soul, mod etc) as well as works via traditional publishing houses. If you are one please contact me by pm to discuss further. Thanks Mark.

Call out to all self publishers. I am taking stock for an online bookstore specialising in soul and R&B, due to open September. I am interested in using it as a platform to promote and sell quality works by self publishing authors on soul, R&B music, and scene related works (northern soul, mod etc) as well as works via traditional publishing houses. If you are one please contact me by pm to discuss further. Thanks Mark.

Nashville book I'm working on Mike

Odd that some say the black ones don't have the fault, 99% sure they all do, though the level of the pressing fault may be different between the two formats. I had a copy of the black text format (in my first book) and this had it. One of the band members sent me a sound file of a re-edited version he did in recent years, slightly cleaned up and pitched at the original intended speed.