John Reed

It was a stroke of genus, when Wexler decided to send him to Stax, for me that was when a star was born.

Where are these facebook selling groups?

When in chin stroking anorak wearer mode, I really like them. As people have said, it can get you searching for new stuff and looking back into your collection. It's a good way of showcasing your set to people who were unable to attend the venue you played. It might even get you some groupies. I'd rather have these posts/threads than ones like what was the best bacon sandwich you had on your way home from Wigan.

More so for Tony Borders than Al Johnson, with all the interest in their recordings by (obsessional) deep soul collectors, the Charly LP's, The SouthernSoul Message Board and the more recent Pete Nickol's Quin Ivy articles on John Ridley's web site. You would have though that a bit more information about these artists would have emerged. If were in the Quinvy/South Camp vain June Edwards is another one

There were two layouts of the orange ones. One has the date at the bottom and production credits on the RHS. The other one has the date on the RHS with the production credits at the bottom.

Does anyone know anything about Joe Graves? His 4 singles all have their own charm, with his Parkway output getting some plays. His Rack single was picked up by RCA, wouldn't they have created some promo bumph?

11 signed up so far. This is a good opportunity to show other people why you should or shouldn't be on the same bill as Butch.

The red ones prettier. I thought they were slightly different mixes, one being the same as the LP, but dont know which?

Moonville was another one of Choker Campbells many labels. Didnt know it would command that price though, thought all the Moonville releases were cheap. The Soul Merchants - Tender-Loving-Care & Ted Robinson - A Thing Called Love were also released on Moonville, don't know if anything else was release in that label

Surely you don't want 45's, you'd have to keep stopping to change the record every 3 1/2 minutes, or doesnt that matter

Anything by Barry White, you cant get more sexy than the walrus of Luuurrrv.....

Sean, I'm very well, work's been manic with all these EuroZone troubles. I was thinking upto 6 weeks, say by the end of July. Hopefully enough time to receive them all and burn them to the Ipod for listening on the beach in the school holidays. It generally takes me a while to pick the tunes, let alone burning them. So I'm using me as the benchmark, which I'm unsure if that's a good or bad thing. Go-on give it a go, you know you'll like it.......

Roger, send them out for this one.

I know that the price of postage's gone up, but I thought it was time to see if there's any interest in another CD Swap. The Sweet & Deep theme has been running for a few years, so I thought a theme of Whatever Floats Your Boat would be nice and wide to attract people with different preferences who would be open to maybe listening to something different to what they normally listen to. If you're interested, please send me a pm with your real name (not just your SS name) and postal address. I'll keep it open for a week, but I'd like to limit to a maximum of 25 people (if we get to that number), so it doesn't become too unwieldy. Please, only send me your details if you can definitely provide a CD.

I'm quite surprised it didn't sell too. IMO its the best release by him even though its not the most expensive record he's been involved in.

Rich, I agree with you, but the last sentence was a specific question about Bobby Bland and ZZ Hill.

I don't think you can categorize these artists as either, and there isn't really a need to do so. Both have tracks on the same LP (especially their later Malaco stuff) that I would say were outright blues and others that were outright soul tracks. The term BlueSoul has been used for a long time to describe the mixing of the two genres. Just enjoy their music for what it is, without any need for pigeon holes.

Sorry Mike, no offense was meant.

Yep, I have to concede on this one.

I know this is a Northern Soul forum, but he recorded quality soul for over 30 years and apart posts about 'Mornin' there's only one mention of his Albatross release let alone his other stuff, shame really.

A quality artist, whatever decade he recorded in.

The poster in the impressions LP Times Have Changed was a nice touch. The extra promo single in the Bill Brandon LP was a nice surprise also.

Mine is VG, but plays great. Surely its VG cos it doesn't play that great

It is the issue which does command a premium, but I would have thought that its not really an in-demand sound at the moment and that the starting price is more in line with a set sale price, albeit a bit high IMO.

So was I