Shinehead

No probs , blues i can use but not at northern nights, the Burnside track in my opinion is garbage.

I agree with you why would you want to hear it on the scene on a northern night , they are totally different types of music i love Robert Cray but it's music to listen to at home or live where the man is sensational, all is was trying to get at was there was no comparison to the RL Burnside track and any Robert Cray music that i've heard.

Sounds a lot like by an uptempo tune by someone like Robert Cray? , obviously you have never listened to any Robert Cray material .

This is it .

This one does it for me great blowing and great vocal too Jr.is a legend Gotta Hold On To This Feeling https://youtu.be/UvfBji1iEQY

Bunnies in Rotherham was another shop that was not bad for buying Shermans and Levis etc bit pricy though that was situated in the Imperial Buildings. You could also pick up a few things at the sports shop Danny Williams remember getting a Slazenger jumper from there .

If your on about Rotherham the Wakefield Famous Army Stores was next to Kendrick Fieldsend and they sold Levis, Martens plus obviously surplus army gear, as for Sheffield i think there was quite a few one as i remember was on the Wicker or there abouts. Just remembered another Wakefield Army stores in Rotherham that one was across from Woolworths think it's a phone shop now.

Some great records on this label love the design of the multi coloured label too the following 2 are big faves of mine and cheap as well !

Maybe i'm alone on this one but i prefer Maxines version of this to the Ray Gant version, she seem to get the real emotion out of the song. Love to hear the Eddie Parker version though.

If the people there enjoyed it what has it got to do with anybody that did not attend ?.

Thats the one ! . Sorry i should mentioned it was a 12 inch.

Is my memory playing tricks? but i'm sure this got booted in the 80s coupled with Bill Harris and another track which i can't recall .

Always loved this .

Three Pounds Sixty including postage i'll have some of those! the last 2 Sean Hampsey compiled cds have had a battering since i bought them his new 2 looks as though they will get the same treatment. Keep up the good work Ian.

From what i've heard of Jasmine most of it is very good and uplifting too and the girl can sing her version of the the Terry Callier classic is the poorest track i've heard by her. Love her version of the Little Walter/ Mitty Collier classic My Babe.

I might have been wrong i thought only one was held there and the council said the place did not have a licence to hold allnighters there or maybe any type of functions.

I got my Blues And Soul delivered to my local newsagent so when it went weekly did not get the bonus you did but as you said it got thinner and thinner.

Itchiban yes Tamiko Jones yes .

Anyone else remember when Blues and Soul went weekly ? it did not last long before it went back to bi weekly though.

Sorry to hear that Dave i thought you were still producing skm a great mag the first one i bought i think had Mary Wells on the cover nice tapes to go with i remember.

Good answer Dave but yours is still going though , what are your sales like are they pretty much as always or have they suffered in recent years.

As someone who has always enjoyed reading about soul music nearly as much as listening i,ve subscribed to all the following mags Blues And Soul , Black Music , Black Echoes , Shades Of Soul, SKM , and the great Voices From The Shadows and InThe Basement am i the only one that since getting on the internet my reading of mags has totally gone, i know most of the above are now defunct but even if they were not i could not see me still subscribing to any other than Shadows i just find that all the knowledge i need can be found on the net. Am i alone in this has the net killed the Soul mag. I have even culled all my old copies of everything except my old copies of Voices.

Think it's probably a reissue of his Decca lp It's Got To Be Mellow. The tracks are as follows on the original lp. Side 1 - 1/ Mercy, Mercy ,Mercy. 2/ It's Got To Be Mellow. 3/ Yesterday.4/ I Can't Stop Loving You. 5/ Nobody Knows When Your Down And Out. 6/ The Tennesee Waltz. Side 2 - 1/ Ode To Billy Joe( part 1) 2/ Ode To Billy Joe( part 2) 3/ Cornbread And Butter. 4/ Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. 5/ Round Midnight

Whenever i need a little lift the Artistics - It's Gonna Be Alright never fails to put a spring back in my step a great track. Plus the album it comes from is a true classic.

Yes the mans a genius.