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Poretta Soul Festival 2013
16th May 2013
Midsummer is always a special month for European lovers of Southern Soul. For the past 25 years, in a small, friendly, picturesque ‘spa town’ in Northern Italy called Porretta Terme, Italian music promoter and Otis Redding obsessive Graziano Uliani has been curating and ‘creatively directing’ Porretta Soul, probably the longest running - and almost certainly the best – music festival of its kind anywhere in the world.
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Country Joe Manufacturing Fault
17th April 2013
Apologies are in order folks. The first pressing of our Country Joe Electric Music reissue has a pressing fault (affecting track three on disc one - the mono disc). If you have one of the affected copies, just email your details to us at social (at) acerecords (dot) com and we will dispatch a corrected copy post-haste.
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George Jackson Remembered
15th April 2013
I only ever met George Henry Jackson once, but it was an occasion I’ll never forget. In January 2010 my Ace colleague Dean Rudland and I left our Muscle Shoals hotel in the small hours of the morning, to drive several hundred miles in weather conditions that ‘appalling’ would be far too kind a word to describe, braving snowdrifts and sub-zero temperatures at an ungodly hour to keep a 10AM appointment to interview George and Harrison Calloway at Malaco’s famous Jackson, MS studios. We were nervous and excited at the prospect of meeting a couple of our musical heroes, and the fact that we were a little late in arriving made us even more so – particularly as both men were already sitting in the Malaco lobby waiting for us when we got there.
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WE AIN’T CHEAP (compared to the out of copyright releases)
14th February 2013
In these straitened times everyone is looking for a bargain. When it comes to the world of re-issues, there is a flood of CDs out there utilising recordings made prior to 1963 that are now free of copyright. Good news for the bargain hunters amongst you, as dozens of independent labels scramble to release ever-cheaper compilations of old masters.
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2012-13 Catalogue Update
12th February 2013
The new catologue is out now. If you have already signed up for it your copy is on its way. If you would like to sign up please email catalogue@acerecords.com with your name and address.
