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Levi's celebrates 1955! Vintage 501 jeans and t-shirt package
Levi's seem to be celebrating a 50 year anniversary a bit late, but still, this is quite a nice little package... A pair of vintage 501XX five-pocket dry jeans with an authentic 1955
cut, zinc button fly, copper rivets and big E Red tab, as well as an
off-white/cream 1950s Levi's sportswear t-shirt and a vintage-style
brown paper laundry bag as packaging.
You can get this from Oi Polloi for £159.99
Via RetroToGo
1st female DJ to DJ at Ronnie Scott's, London UK
DJ Amma will be dj'ing at legendary jazz club Ronnie Scott's this upcoming Friday. Her dj'ing CV contains gigs like Jazz Café (London), Stokefest Festival (London), Dust
Club (London), 11 Market Place (London), Cargo (London), Fez Club
(Reading), Poonana (Reading), Yardbird Jazz Club (Birmingham), 93 Feet
East (London), Mix (Winchester & Reading), The Fly (London) and the
Pigalle Club (London) etc ….
Make sure you don’t miss her this Friday, see details below:
Date: Friday 18th January 2008
Address: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club (upstairs), 47 Frith Street, Soho, London,
W1D 4HT, UK
Music: Jazz, Hammond, Rhythm & Blues, Early Funk, Northern Soul, Ska etc.
Time: 9pm to 3am
Price: Free 7pm to 9pm - £5 b4 11pm - £8 after 11pm
Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road
ROCKABILLY 514: NEW YORK PREMIERE ON JAN. 19th
The Knitting Factory is hosting the New York Premiere of ROCKABILLY 514 on Saturday, January 19th, 2008.
Saturday January 19th, 2008
8h00pm (doors open)
Screening at 8h45pm.
Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013
212.219.3132
There will be a live rockabilly band and a DJ to make you jive all night long!
Rockin' in California
This weekend you can catch Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys live twice. If you are in California that is. Friday night they play with Phat Cat Swinger and then on Saturday the band will play in Arcadia where they take over after Bobby Bluehouse does his thang.
Friday Jan. 11th
Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys
The Blue Cafe
210 Promenade
Long Beach, California
90802
Saturday Jan. 12th
Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys
Arcadia Blues Club
16 East Huntington
Arcadia, California
91006
Tribute to Ritchie Valens Winter Dance Party 2008
Winter Dance Party Concert Saturday February 2, 2008 at the Henry J. Mello Center for Performing Arts in Watsonville Ca. Tickets are available by calling The Santa Cruz Civic Box Office (831)420-5260, online at www.santacruztickets.com or in person at the Santa Cruz Civic Box Office, 307 Church Street Santa Cruz Ca. Ticket Prices- $20.00 $25.00, Golden Circle Seating $75.00 a couple or $40.00 each. Doors open at 6:30 show starts at 7:30. Opening the show is The Backyard Blues Band, featuring Ritchie's brother Mario Ramirez.The Fabulous Ray Anthony as" Ritchie Valens", The Great John Mueller as "Buddy Holly" with The Rockin' Winter Dance Party Band and Scott Walker "Hello Baby" as "The Big Bopper" .
Portion of proceeds to benefit Guitars Not Guns.
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode - His Complete '50s Chess Recordings (Hip-O Select)
It's exciting to see that Universal is finally putting the Chess Records catalogue to good use. This 4 CD release on their Hip-O Select off-shoot, limited to 5,000 copies, is the first time such a comprehensive array of Chuck's material has been available in the one place since Charly Records released many Chess artists' box sets in the early '90s which were later withdrawn for legal reasons. Similar comprehensive 2 CD sets have also been appearing on Hip-O Select for other Chess artists, such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters. I'm sure the sound will be superior to the old Charly box sets, and am particularly looking forward to (fingers crossed) Little Walter being covered!
RWR
James Brown: The Singles Vol.4: 1966-1967 (Hip-O Select)
A year on from James Brown's passing, there has been a rather low key series of releases by Universal via their Hip-O Select off-shoot, documenting his singles releases in chronological* order. Aimed squarely at the collector, each double CD set features around forty tracks, and is limited to 5,000 copies, with the latest release being The Singles - Volume Four: 1966-1967, which might give you some idea of how prolific the man was, if you didn't already know.
If like me you already have the excellent Chronicles series of releases, such as Roots of a Revolution, Soul Pride, Foundations of Funk etc you will of course find major overlapping with this more comprehensive series. I wonder what will become of the rag tag selection of album tracks not yet released on CD? I may well need to purchase (for my tastes the pick of the bunch) The Singles - Volume Two: 1960-1963, having just (for the first time) listened to the excellent (as ever) J.C. Davis instrumental side Sticky. If you only have the Live at the Apollo Vol.1 album but would like to hear more James Brown from the same era, Volume Two is the one to go for.
On a related note, I'd like to mention another–by no means new–release that may just have slipped under your radar. From 2005, titled simply Nat Kendrick & The Swans, on Henry Stone Music, this 13 track CD features prime early sixties James Brown band sides, from the sessions which gave us Mashed Potatoes with several sides featuring King Coleman on vocals, a handful of instrumentals, and two tracks featuring the vocals of Yvonne Fair at the end. Recommended.
RWR
* - Worth noting that due mostly to label shenanigans, James Brown's releases were not always put out in the order that they were recorded, so especially during The Singles Vol.3 (he was on a bit of a protest stint with them during 1964 especially) you will find some sides recorded earlier, but not released until then.
The Coasters and The Robins
The Coasters - There's a Riot Goin' On: The Coasters on Atco (Rhino Handmade R2 7440)
and
The Robins - I Must be Dreamin': Robins on RCA's Crown & Spark, 1953-1955 (El Toro Records R&B 111)
I only really got into The Coasters (like, head over heels) about a year or so ago. Doing some serious scouting about the net at the time led me to believe I'd missed the bus somewhat. Looking for something more comprehensive than the many Best Of's available, Rhino's double CD set 50 Coastin' Classics looked like just the thing for me, but was out of print, with second hand copies in demand on eBay, at appropriately inflated prices. Sequel Records' CD issues of The Coasters' albums (with bonus tracks) were in the same boat. I ended up with two CD's on Collectables, and one hard to find Sequel one to fill in most of the blanks, and was fairly satisfied. Until now. Rhino Handmade has only gone and released a limited edition four disc set with probably all the Coasters you'd ever need, including a fair few tracks I hadn't heard before (some of which I really like the sound of). You can hear a short sample of each track on the Rhino Handmade web site.
If you want to dip your ear into The Coasters' catalogue, but four discs sounds a bit excessive, and you like stuff like Hank Ballard & The Midnighters and The Five Royales, I'd thoroughly recommend starting with their first album The Coasters, which should be fairly obtainable. However, if you get the bug, like I did, you're going to be pumped for getting hold of the many, many other great sides they turned out in the fifties and early sixties (unless of course you're into vinyl, or go for this set).
Another recent Coasters-related issue is The Robins: I Must be Dreamin' on El Toro Records, which brings together their mid-fifties, post-Johnny Otis output, up until they became The Coasters, and in fact includes the skeleton of the first Coasters album, which was originally recorded as The Robins (although not the whole album). Listening through the audio samples from El Toro's web site I found the bulk of the material to be pleasant, but for my tastes a bit generic vocal group R&B, until I got to the tracks that ended up on The Coasters, which fairly lept out of the speakers by comparison, both sonically and also in terms of having found their own character. No doubt however there will be others who prefer the earlier style.
RWR
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