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Recent Release from BBE Music Keb Darge & Little Edith's Legendary Wild Rockers Vol 3 A Collection Of Rare Rockabilly & Surf From The 50s & Early 60s Here's some of the text from BBE website release notes Here we are again, the third volume in a series set to outstrip my “Legendary Deep Funk” comps. We do hope so, as we much prefer the music on these. The funk and soul thing seems much too serious nowadays. Whereas rockin tunes are all about fun. Not to detract from the quality of music on these tunes, but you can clearly here the fun they had recording them. The majority of the tunes on volume 2 were ultra-rare rockabilly classics. This time we’ve gone for pure fun with a few deeper sounding rarities thrown in to add a hint of diversity. Dj’ing is also much more fun for us now as this music generates happiness in the crowd too. The old northern soul days of “drowning in a sea of my own despair” have been replaced with “having a ball”. BBE link here http://www.bbemusic.com/releases/BBE238CDG/Keb%20Darge%20%26%20Little%20Edith%20-%20Keb%20Darge%20and%20Little%20#.UcEPvvmOSSo where you can also purchase all the various formats direct and as per other BBE releases listen to each track in full! Album Description VOLUME THREE : Hep 20-track compilation of unearthed rockabilly 'n' surf rarities! Features The Shindigs, Everett Carpenter, The Page Boys, The Country Dudes, Untouchables, Angie & The Citations and others. Track Listings 1. Come With Me to the Casbah - Ganimian & His Orientals 2. Headache - Angie & The Citations 3. I'm the Wolf Man - Round Robin 4. The Raging Sea (With the Gibson String Band) - Gene Maltais 5. Rock & Roll Guitar - Johnny Knight 6. Short Fat Ben - Phil Barclay And The Sliders 7. Sunset Blues (With the Swing Kings) - Tony and Jackie Lamie 8. Thunder Reef - The Shindigs 9. Geraldine - Ole Miss Down Beats 10. Whiphash - Riki and The Rikatone 11. Ice Cold Baby - Marlon 'Madman' Mitchell and The Rocketeers 12. Rock Rock - Johnny Powers with the band of Stan Getz & Tom Cats 13. Be-bop Battlin' Ball - Eddie Gaines and The 'Rockin' Five 14. Connie Lou - Ray Taylor and Alabama Pals 15. Let Your Hair Down, Baby - Everett Carpenter 16. Crawlin' (The Crawl) - Untouchables 17. Barricuda - The Page Boys 18. Hang-out - Joe Lee and Orchestra 19. Peter Gunn Twist - The Rebel Rousers 20. Have a Ball - The Country Dude

Local Midlands BBC TV has had a brief feature on upcoming release of the Keep On Keepin' On Film video below, the news bit starts at about one minute in

Here's a shout about an upcoming festival that just may be of interest to some, its over 10 days and its in Manchester Which means that it more than likely that it will hit a lot of members on here Its the Manchester Jazz festival 26 July - 4th August Artist wise, while it does features the recently talked about Lee Fields & The Expressions Show at the Band in the Wall on the first weekend 27th July am not up to speed really on many of the other artists, so if any members can/want to point out any must go to or just interesting acts via the comments, am sure it be useful Here's the link to the programme http://www.manchesterjazz.com/festival-programme-2013/ Video Intro http://youtu.be/sMo8nFLqGMU The full festival site link http://www.manchesterjazz.com/

The first of a whole summer hatful of album release news... A Lonnie Lester album from Tramp records who are hitting their 10 year anniversary mark with some stylish releases Here's the blurb... Born in dorena, missouri in 1937, lonnie lester started singing in church at the age of six. as a teenager he performed with doo-wop groups in and around gary. after being on the road with junior walker he ended up in san francisco in 1959. while there he opened for r&b stars like sam & dave, the drifters, aretha franklin, little willie john, and many others. the next big step was his move to chicago, illinois, where he cut more than a handful of R&B/soul singles for the nu-tone label. during the early 70's, he formed a five-piece band called lonnie lester & touch. in the 80's he traveled the country with his band in addition to performing in the indianapolis area. he retired from the music business full-time in 1991, but continues to perform in the indianapolis, indiana area. the 8-page cd booklet contains detailed liner notes and scans of particular labels. Here's the lineup... so this is love the meanest man in town jay walk you can't go you choose git down ain't that a shame I know * power structure pt.1 power structure pt.2 can't let you go pt.1 can't let you go pt.1 I have never been blue * I know (b&g version) * so this is love (alternate version) the meanest man in town (alternate version) Here's the link... http://www.tramprecords.com/artists_cd_lp.html Here's the sampler... https://soundcloud.com/tramprecords/album-sampler-tr9023 Out and available now in the following formats lp - cd - download (note the site says that the lp has the same info as the 8 page cd leaflet) Lonnie Lester - The Story of Lonnie Lester - Trip 9023 Here's the end word... wait a minute baby am telling the truth... http://www.tramprecords.com/sound/45/trlp9023_04.mp3