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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!

Both myself and Ace Records were deeply saddened to hear of the recent passing of Ron Kavana, one of the label's former recording artists and compiler of a series of heritage Irish CDs for the company's Globestyle imprint.

 I very much regret not having had any thoughts of interviewing the man during the twenty or so years I followed his music and got to know him to some extent, so the following piece as the heading suggests is written largely from memory with more than a little help from album notes and credits and retained scraps of conversations with the man himself. The likes of Wikipedia have been purposely avoided. It also helps that I was privileged to work at both Rock On and Ace Records.

Dave Bartholomew, who did so much to create the New Orleans R&B sound and in turn rock ’n’ roll—especially his recordings with Fats Domino—died in Metairie, just outside New Orleans on June 23 at the age of 100.  He was born up the Mississippi River in Edgard, Louisiana, some 30 miles from the Crescent City, on December, 24, 1918.

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.

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.