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It would be safe to assume that all of Ace Records' illustrious staff got into the reissue game as an extension of their passion for record collecting (a certain Mr Carroll would be first and foremost). And the collector mentality continues to inform much of the way we all go about searching for vintage source material; from the way discographies and master numbers are studied like auction lists, via the browsing of tape libraries as one would racks of vinyl, through to that ultimate moment: the fondling of the master tape.

Then, in September 2008, came another awesome box set, the three-CD, 75-track “Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977”, which as Tony Rounce and Martin Goggin explained, set out the story of Southern Soul “in an approximately chronological manner, from its early rumblings at the beginning of the 1960s, through its first golden era in the mid-60s and its second in the early 70s, and on to the valiant attempts to forestall its demise in the mid-to-late 70s” and featuring everything from “million-sellers to obscure 45s that didn’t get beyond the limits of the cities in which they were recorded”. Soul heaven indeed.