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TO FURTHER CELEBRATE ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR, ACE RECORDS ANNOUNCES A WEEK OF GIGS AT LONDON’S KOKO TAKING PLACE 4^TH – 10^TH AUGUST

THE CELEBRATION WILL INCLUDE SHOWS FROM LEGENDS SPANNING THE LABEL’S EXTRAORDINARY CATALOGUE, INCLUDING BOOKER T. JONES, FATBACK BAND, THE SEEDS AND THE STING-RAYS

THE SAME WEEK ACE WILL BE RETURNING TO ITS CAMDEN ROOTS, RUNNING ACE AT ROCK ON, A SEVEN-DAY POP-UP SHOP STOCKED WITH THOUSANDS OF LP’S & MERCH, STAFFED BY SOME OF THE ORIGINAL ROCK ON SHOP TEAM INCLUDING ACE CO-FOUNDER TED CARROLL, WITH RESIDENT DJ’S SPINNING GEMS FROM THE LABEL’S CATALOGUE

Jan Savage, founder member of 1960s garage rock avatars the Seeds died in Oklahoma on 5 August. Alec Palao pays tribute and points out the importance of this iconic guitar slinger.

It was the mid-fifties, probably 1956, I was listening to AFN [the American Forces Network] coming in over static-laden airwaves from Stuttgart in West Germany at about 9.30 one weeknight. Suddenly my ears sprang to attention as a wild and frantic sound came screaming from the tiny speakers of our ancient wireless receiver. It was Little Richard and ‘Tutti Frutti’ and I’d never heard ANYTHING even vaguely like it before. It was the most exciting record I’d ever heard and still is.

It changed my life!

I went to the record department of our local electrical store the very next day. Even though we didn’t have a record player in our house, I needed to own THAT record!

At long last! John Broven, a consultant with Ace Records between 1991 and 2006 with many of his CD compilations still in catalogue, has updated and revised his history of New Orleans R&B, originally titled Walking to New Orleans and now known as Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans. He discussed the major changes in the introduction to the new edition, published by Pelican Publishing Co. of Gretna, Louisiana: