Morning all.

After testing the water with a few folk thought we'd have a crack at a 'Deep Sweet & Group Ballads' CD swap. Lower the tempo for the on-coming hot summer days. Considering the success of the related audio threads on Soul Source thought it might be worth a shot. There's an incredible wealth of tracks out there. So from whatever decade - whatever the price - All of one genre or a mixture. The choice is yours.

Let's get some southern rasping and pleadings and cool harmonys burned!

Shall we say 20 to be involved? With the World Cup going on - Is an approx. 4 week 'window' suitable to everyone?

If you could PM me (with an email address) if you want to be included I'll put all the necessary details together.

Thanks!

Rich

Oooh, I'd be up for it although my PC is knackered at the moment. How miserable can we get?

Count you in then John? You can be as miserable as you like! I can see 19 people crying into their eigth glass of red wine listening to these CD's

I,ll have some of that Rich

Kev

Great idea Rich

Count me in !

Cheers Pat

Great stuff guys. So far we're up to 6 (if we're including you John?).

Great stuff guys. So far we're up to 6 (if we're including you John?).

yes please

count me in then rich you have my e-mail

Of course Dylan. Top man.

Morning all.

After testing the water with a few folk thought we'd have a crack at a 'Deep Sweet & Group Ballads' CD swap. Lower the tempo for the on-coming hot summer days. Considering the success of the related audio threads on Soul Source thought it might be worth a shot. There's an incredible wealth of tracks out there. So from whatever decade - whatever the price - All of one genre or a mixture. The choice is yours.

Let's get some southern rasping and pleadings and cool harmonys burned!

Shall we say 20 to be involved? With the World Cup going on - Is an approx. 4 week 'window' suitable to everyone?

If you could PM me (with an email address) if you want to be included I'll put all the necessary details together.

Thanks!

Rich

I'd like to take part, thanks

Great stuff Mike. We're now up to 7 miserable sugar coated harmonizers

I'm in .....cheers Eddie

Great stuff Eddie. Many thanks. Now at 8 involved. We'll run it open till say Tuesday? Give everyone a chance to see the thread and who will want to join in.

Looking forward to this!

Rich

Now up to 9. plenty of places left!

Rich

Just a heads up to say we're up to 10 involved so far. Can all have who have signed up so far that haven't done PM me their mailing address'. Thanks!

11 confirmed now.

Eddie Hubbard

Jocko

John Reed

Dylan

Kev Cane

Mark - Funky Feet

Arkwright

John Lloyd

Harrogate Soul

Pat Biggerstaff

Mike Lofthouse

Jaco

Now 12!

Edited June 19, 201014 yr by harrogatesoul

11 confirmed now.

Eddie Hubbard

Jocko

John Reed

Dylan

Kev Cane

Mark - Funky Feet

Arkwright

John Lloyd

Harrogate Soul

Pat Biggerstaff

Mike Lofthouse

Jaco

Now 12!

If there's room for a little one, I'm up for this too!

steve

Great stuff Steve. Lucky number 13!

Eddie Hubbard

Jocko

John Reed

Dylan

Kev Cane

Mark - Funky Feet

Arkwright

John Lloyd

Harrogate Soul

Pat Biggerstaff

Mike Lofthouse

Jaco

Soul Integrity

Big H

Now standing at 14. 6 spaces left!

Edited June 19, 201014 yr by harrogatesoul

Count me in...... I've given up waiting for the remainder of the Darkside CD swaps...

Great stuff. Consider yourself added! Up to 15 now.

Eddie Hubbard

Jocko

John Reed

Dylan

Kev Cane

Mark - Funky Feet

Arkwright

John Lloyd

Harrogate Soul

Pat Biggerstaff

Mike Lofthouse

Jaco

Soul Integrity

Big H

Wrongcrowd

Hootenannie

Kitch making 16 in total.

Edited June 19, 201014 yr by harrogatesoul

Eddie told me about this last night. Great idea Rich.

If you can squeeze me in I'd love it.

Cheers,

Sean

Eddie told me about this last night. Great idea Rich.

If you can squeeze me in I'd love it.

Cheers,

Sean

Sean, it means physically posting CDs mate, you know wrapping 'em, putting a stamp on and putting it in the red box at the bottom of the street.

Are you sure you're up to it

Sean, it means physically posting CDs mate, you know wrapping 'em, putting a stamp on and putting it in the red box at the bottom of the street.

Are you sure you're up to it

No, you're right Dave.

Count me out mate!

Sean

No, you're right Dave.

Count me out mate!

Sean

Stay in mate, it gets easier after the first one

Stay in mate, it gets easier after the first one

I'd love to get in on this.

Not wishing to go off thread but just a heads up on these. On the Bay for a paltry £3.95 post free

Item # 140347693123

Already have it and for that price (post free) its a steal (multiple copies).

No connection to seller, just letting ya all know.

Edited June 20, 201014 yr by Dave Turner

Count me in.

Alan

Not wishing to go off thread but just a heads up on these. On the Bay for a paltry £3.95 post free

Item # 140347693123

Already have it and for that price (post free) its a steal (multiple copies).

No connection to seller, just letting ya all know.

Nice one Dave, well that's me CD's sorted for next two swops, I'll just copy 'em and send em out

Just a thought bout the swop, how about making the cd's we send contain stuff that ain't been posted to refosoul yet? just a sugestion. I'm sure it would produce a lot of tunes ripe for posting up.

steve

Nice one Dave, well that's me CD's sorted for next two swops, I'll just copy 'em and send em out

Just a thought bout the swop, how about making the cd's we send contain stuff that ain't been posted to refosoul yet? just a sugestion. I'm sure it would produce a lot of tunes ripe for posting up.

steve

Good idea Steve. Although, I'm not fully up-to-date with Refosoul postings. Must try and take some time to thoroughly go through the Sweet & Deep thread.

Sometimes it takes a track on a CD to "prick my ears up" whilst doing the ironing

There is always gonna be some duplication with tracks and I'm looking to try and include stuff that possiby, but not guaranteed, won't be included on others. So what I put on may not be the cream tracks but still IMO good ones.

Nice one Dave, well that's me CD's sorted for next two swops, I'll just copy 'em and send em out

Just a thought bout the swop, how about making the cd's we send contain stuff that ain't been posted to refosoul yet? just a sugestion. I'm sure it would produce a lot of tunes ripe for posting up.

steve

I just looked at that CD. Not that I care at $5 (who's making money???), but it's clearly a bootleg (apparent by a bunch of the tracks). That's not surprising but why does it say Sony in the bottom? It's not actually produced or distributed by Sony is it?

I just looked at that CD. Not that I care at $5 (who's making money???), but it's clearly a bootleg (apparent by a bunch of the tracks). That's not surprising but why does it say Sony in the bottom? It's not actually produced or distributed by Sony is it?

I thought it was a Kev Roberts KRL/Goldsoul offering/release? I'm Sure Roger Williams on here did the art work.

how about making the cd's we send contain stuff that ain't been posted to refosoul yet? just a sugestion. I'm sure it would produce a lot of tunes ripe for posting up.

Steve,

Sounds a great idea... I thought of quite a few tunes which I thought that were slightly out of the ordinary and they were already in RefoSoul . Think that might be quite a tough task.

Edited June 20, 201014 yr by John Reed

Steve,

Sounds a great idea... I thought of quite a few tunes which I thought that were slightly out of the ordinary and they were already in RefoSoul . Think that might be quite a tough task.

I know what ya mean John, quite a few I pulled, then had to shove 'em back coz they already up there!

Also a bit of a problem at times coz people don't always spel 'em rite!

steve

Great stuff. Consider yourself added! Up to 15 now.

Eddie Hubbard

Jocko

John Reed

Dylan

Kev Cane

Mark - Funky Feet

Arkwright

John Lloyd

Harrogate Soul

Pat Biggerstaff

Mike Lofthouse

Jaco

Soul Integrity

Big H

Wrongcrowd

Hootenannie

Sean Hampsey

Darks

Ady Pountain

Miss Goldie

Gazman

OK! Magic number of 20 is up! Thanks to everyone (think everyone is listed above!). Some heavyweights in here which is great to see - I'm punch-bagging from light welter I reckon

I've collected most of the information together. If you haven't done so already can everyone make sure they've sent me their email and mailing address.

I'll get everything together and mail out through email tonight everyones details for the swap. I've set up an email address just for the swap so look out for the 'Sweet Deep & Group Ballad' email to come through (on some servers it may come through to your trash box)

Through the sheer wealth of tracks on the Refosoul Sweet n Deep thread I, like a few others will have pulled tracks for inclusion so in an ideal world it would be great but I wouldn't worry too much. Do think it's good to hear everyones contribution in their entirety.

Monday morning work beckons so any questions etc PM me and I'll get everything sorted by the end of play today.

Thanks to all!

Rich

Edited June 21, 201014 yr by harrogatesoul

Thanks for the update Rich

Bugger, been away and missed this. Bugger, bugger, bugger!!

gary

Gaz. If there's no objections glad to have you onboard??

Gaz. If there's no objections glad to have you onboard??

If no one minds thats fantastic!

gary

Added Gary to the list. 21 in total and swap closed if thats cool by everyone.

stuff thats not in ref-o-soul sounds a great idea in theory but in practice I think it would be a nightmare. Time available to compile the CD is the biggest issue i'd have with this suggestion.

I don't mind hearing things that are well known mixed in with the lesser known things. It might remind me just how good certain tracks actually are after hearing them again for the first time in a while.

just as a test I'll run through the mp3s i've recorded so far and see just how mnay are on ref-o-soul. It might be quite embarrasing

Just had another thought re stuff not in Refosoul. I used to post a few tunes in the Sweet & Deep thread and occasionally still do, so by posting stuff in Refosoul has actually cut down my options.

Also as someone has said there are some big hitters participating in this swap, so there isn't gonna be anything new to them on my CD. My preference is would be to leave it open as possible and just make a quality CD irrespective of price or if the tunes are known? Just a thoughts. Got some great Dooley's tunes to sift through when I get home....

My preference is would be to leave it open as possible and just make a quality CD irrespective of price or if the tunes are known? Just a thoughts. Got some great Dooley's tunes to sift through when I get home....

Absolutely agree John and an ethos I think many share anyway. There's a multitude of quality 45s available across all genres for the swap regardless of price etc. Like Dylan pointed out, its easy to forget the well known etc and the joy of re-discovering forgotten tunes from your own collection is an added bonus to the swap. Looking forward to everyones' CD's.

Absolutely agree John and an ethos I think many share anyway. There's a multitude of quality 45s available across all genres for the swap regardless of price etc. Like Dylan pointed out, its easy to forget the well known etc and the joy of re-discovering forgotten tunes from your own collection is an added bonus to the swap. Looking forward to everyones' CD's.

Thinking about it Rich, agree with you John and Dylan. Gonna just do a comp of stuff I got, that I think would make a good selection. going thru refosoul could be a prob with different spellings, and a couple of things I'd like to include, I know I have posted over the years.

....Really looking forward to some great music from everyone:thumbsup:

steve

OK!! - Email sent out to everyone with mailing addresses etc on. Some to come through still but its all on the email. Thanks to all! If for some reason you don't recieve an email let me know.

Rich

OK!! - Email sent out to everyone with mailing addresses etc on. Some to come through still but its all on the email. Thanks to all! If for some reason you don't recieve an email let me know.

Rich

All received Rich.

Right, I better get sorting some tracks out

errrrrrrrrm

OK!! - Email sent out to everyone with mailing addresses etc on. Some to come through still but its all on the email. Thanks to all! If for some reason you don't recieve an email let me know.

Rich

My first batch went out today - just finished the rest and will post them tomorrow. Let me know if you don't receive one!! Hope you all enjoy it!, Mike

My first batch went out today - just finished the rest and will post them tomorrow. Let me know if you don't receive one!! Hope you all enjoy it!, Mike

Hi Mike, look forward to receiving it. Have been getting tracks in mind and will be getting them done over the weekend and hopefully mailed out Monday or Tuesday.

I'll confim when I do.

Dave

Mike's landed this morning.

Looking forward to playing this:thumbsup:

Start getting mine out early next week..

Mike's landed this morning.

Looking forward to playing this:thumbsup:

Like wise, popped through the door. Looking forward to the drive to work!!

Half my CD's burned and the sleeves printed hope to post them all on Tuesday.

gary

Blimey guys, I'm still hacking getting it down from about 4 CD's, let alone going through the burning and sending process. Think I'll do the easy part today and buy the stamps. Look forward to receiving them.