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If you’re reading this with no prior knowledge of the Porretta Soul Festival – which is unlikely, as I have been gushing about how good it is pretty much since Ace got its website up and running – you have just missed the 29th edition.  Quite a big ‘miss’ if you are a soul and R&B fan, as the weekend of July 21-23 2016 was exceptional to say the least.

Gary Sanford Paxton passed away peacefully on the night of July 16^th 2016, his wife Vicki Sue at his side. His friend Alec Palao recalls the life of the original rock’n’roll maverick.

Ace’s Alec Palao remembers Dan Hicks, former Charlatan and leader of the Hot Licks, who died on 6 February 2016 of cancer.

It’s hard for me to offer the standard obituary for Dan Hicks. He really was a one-off, and I am truly honoured that I had the opportunity to work with him on more than one occasion. It’s also hard to categorize his style of music, although one oft-used description was folk-jazz, or as Dan would joke, “fo-jazz.” Western swing, bluegrass, ragtime and the blues all fit in there somewhere too, but it’s Hicks’ lyrical persona, the drily witty erudite raconteur with a keen eye for observation, that elevates him to the ranks of the truly inspired. ‘Canned Music,’ ‘I Scare Myself,’ ‘How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away,’ ‘Capo On My Brain,’ ‘Euphonious Whale,’ and so many others: his legacy is a finely-honed, devastatingly-humoured cache of brilliance.

Lemmy was one of the last of the original generation of true rock’n’rollers.