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Despite struggles, small-town bluesman keeps aging music alive

With callused hands, Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents created more than 70 years ago....Read More

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Loop News - March 17
2021

Tired of collecting normal vinyl records

Most fans of vinyl are happy collecting 33 1/3 RPM albums, 7-inch 45 RPM singles, and the odd 12-inch. A subset dig for rare 78 RPM discs, especially the blues recordings of the 1920s and ’30s. But what if want to get reallyesoteric with your library?... Read more

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Global news - Allan Cross - March 14
2021

Marcia Griffiths set the record straight sabot Electric Boogie

Reggae icon Marcia Griffiths has sought to set the record straight regarding the genesis of her mega-hit song Electric Boogie, which she says has been incorrectly described as being a cover version....Read More 

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DANCEHALLMAG February 27
2021

The Best Turntables for 2020

In 2020, an increased amount of time at home saw people around the world diving into a tonne of music to make things feel better....Read more

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The Vinyl Factory - December 14
2020

A tribute fit for a King

Long before artistes like Black Uhuru, Junior Reid and Wayne “Sleng Teng” Smith helped put Waterhouse on the music map, there was Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock... Read more

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Observer
Monday November 16
2020

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