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Stop name dropping Mark!!

Hi Tony, Consider my wrists well and truly slapped!!! A huge 'hats off' and 'thank you' to yourself, Dean and Alec for all your hard work!! I'll let Sean buy you all a beer at Cleggy!! Kev

Kev - I'm sure that Ady would be on here himself to correct you, if he wasn't so busy with Cleggy prep work. If he was, he would be the first to say that the bulk of the congratulations for this project should be directed at our colleague Dean Rudland who put it together, and - to a lesser degree - to Alec Palao and yours truly, who did the tape research and copying down in Muscle Shoals. Credit where credit's due, please!

Yes, Sean, toiling away at the tape coalface for hours on end, the slog only broken by frequent trips to the Garden Gate Cafe - I really don't know how we withstand it all..... ...and we're such gluttons for punishement that Dean, Alec and I will be Memphis and Muscle Shoals bound again next weekend for a further 10 days of repairing tape splices and getting covered in shedding oxide. Honestly, the things we do for you, lot, I dunno!!!!!! Seriously, we can't wait to be back in MS. There's still plenty of good-looking stuff to transfer, and if we run out of that we can always investigate the unissued Liza Minnelli album... Once we've done that and a number of yet-to-be-connected contractual dots are joined, the projects will flow like wine. And to answer someone's question, yes, the brand new Kent Spencer CD with 'Breaking Point' WILL be on sale at Cleggy, as will a special, limited edition Kent Select 'Let's Talk It Over' T-shirt, perfect for wearing while you watch our lot beat their lot at footie on Saturday night!

...Really enjoyed Eli's latest CD, trust we'll be able to pick up the 45's over here as well?... regards, Kev Hello Kev, The retro Capitol 45s (numbered 31357) were only for sale on Eli's EU and US tours (the US tour actually starts today) and I also made a batch for Capitol/EMI New York to use for promotion. The new batch (for EMI Music Distribution) are commercial copies for sale in the USA before the album is released over there (August). It's a limited edition but I expect some might end up on eBay etc. They'll have a different catalogue number (26684) and modified label text but will retain the general retro style. I think they'll become pretty collectable. Paul

Amazon are now temporarily out of stock, but Play.com had some in, so I got it from there

Hello Kev, The Selecta/Shotgun 45s by Sam Dees and Eddie Floyd will be out early July, as soon as I've caught up with jobs for other clients. Extra busy here because I'm also pressing some more Eli 'Paperboy' Reed 45s for Capitol/EMI (a commercial batch for sale in the USA next month), a Four Tops 45 for Phil Dick's Soul Intention label and an indie 45 for a UK group. By the way, I've just finished mastering and design work on a "new" George Jackson CD album for Garry Cape's Soulscape label. It's called All Because Of Your Love and is a continuation of the Grapevine albums George Jackson in Muscle Shoals (2002) and What Would Your Mama Say? (2005). It's at the plant now and will be released on June 21st. Best wishes, Paul www.selectarecords.com

Hi Ady, Congatulations for yet another stunning compilation, you've certainly done the musical heritage of Memphis / Muscle Shoals proud over the last few years!! Best of luck with the Wiggins Brothers on Saturday, still can't believe I'm going to see and hear them!! Kev

Hi Ady, Congatulations for yet another stunning compilation, you've certainly done the musical heritage of Memphis / Muscle Shoals proud over the last few years!! Best of luck with the Wiggins Brothers on Saturday, still can't believe I'm going to see and hear them!! Kev

Got mine ordered, thanks for mail Sean, can't wait for the cd.

Now sold out

Correct Mark, it has taken a long time for the back catalogue to see the light of day. Some of us has been chipping away at Rodney Hall (Rick's son) to release this stuff for a long time. Hell, I even went over to Muscle Shoals myself to persuade 'em! I knew we should have taken Bully with us! What I don't know yet is if there will be selected re issues of the FAME stuff, or the whole lot! We need ACE to do with FAME what they did with Goldwax, issue all the 45's both 'A' and 'B' sides! Kev

Looks great value for money. Soul will always be better than burnt toast

Yeah, I've got a lot of back shopping to do as well. Ok, you may want to trawl through his other items but if you're specifically looking for Kent releases amongst his sales then just search his items for either Kent (obviously) CDKEN or CDKEND. Slightly cheaper on his website but the postage is extra so with the all-in Ebay price of £9.99 there's really hardly any difference.

Paul, agreed. Like yourself I get my Ace/Kent CDs from Boogaloo161. Very good seller with a great selection and at a very good price. Can only endorse everything Sean and others have said about "Steppin' Stone". Excellent! Very much looking forward to the Fame and Spencer Wiggins CDs coming out. God I love this music

Hi Paul, When is your Sam Dees 45 due out? Kev

Bonus - 3 trax from Minits, order placed, thanx Sean

Music has never been so cheap. You lot seem to like cheap music. You've got cheap taste.

You can also get it on eBay from boogaloo161 (Roger Stewart) "buy it now" for £9.99 with free postage. https://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item335dd686ae I get quite a lot of Ace/Kent stuff etc from him. Highly recommended.

Mine arrived today as well via Amazon! Great to hear the tracks in the comfort of my own home as oppossed to Sean's car (even if it does have an excellent sound system!) I've already copied it onto my 'pod, so I'll check the gracenotes later Mike! The Spencer Wiggins cd should be out next, but I can't wait to get the Candi Staton track in my grubby little paws!!! Great work from the guys at Ace/Kent. Can we now have the complete FAME back catalogue please!?!?!?!? Kev

I was pleased to see an obituary of Richard in the Times today. I hope this acknowledgement from a British institution of his importance to so many people will give a little bit of comfort to his family and friends.

Wow -speechless what a sad piece of news, i hadn't had the pleasure of meeting him, but by the sound of things he was a "good" person. I wonder if he left any close family? On the brighter side, at least he got to find out and appreciate the northern scene and realized there were people out there that truly appreciated his talent. DJ

Beautiful. That`s the sort of thread that makes us better than the rest. Dave Shaw

Please pass on to Steve Whittle, Lovely piece mate, are you ok? I know how much you loved the guy, and I feel for your loss my friend. Gimme a call some time ok? God bless you Steve. Dave Shaw