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Soul and gospel singer Percy Wiggins has sent us the sad news that his brother Spencer passed away on 13^th February 2023.

As one half of male-female double-act Blackburn & Snow, Jeff Blackburn wrote and performed some of the most powerful and moving folk-infused rock to emanate from the West Coast in the mid-60s. On the eve of his memorial, Alec Palao pays tribute to one of many unsung heroes within the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.

The world of popular music has rightly been shaken by the death of Tina Turner, at the age of 83. 

Even though she had not performed in public for many years, Tina remained one of the most iconic artists of the 20^th Century and will be remembered long after the majority of her peers (and indeed, today’s female singers) have passed into history.  Everybody likes some of Tina’s records, even if they don’t like all of them. Ace has been responsible for keeping some of the very best in print for decades, either through licensing or via its long term ownership of the Kent-Modern catalogue, on which some of Tina and ex-husband Ike’s very best singles of the mid-60s appeared. It’s only right and proper that we pay our respects via this small tribute.

By Tony Rounce (with acknowledgements to Heikki Suosalo)

All at Ace were sorry to hear, earlier this week, of the passing of a great soul man and a mainstay of Kent’s catalogue since the 1990s. Whether as a solo singer or co-lead for one of the most important groups of the 70s and 80s, the recordings of the late John Edwards are and always will be cherished by  true soul fans as being among the finest of their kind.