Music News coming from the inside of Quinn Records TM an Independent Record Label of blues, gospel, jazz, and soul music, homebased in St. Louis. Missouri.
I remember when I opened the label several years ago. As a team we were working on how we wanted to position the label, looking for the emotional benefit that we could offer to our customers. We finally landed on "We'll give you what you want" as our positioning. We never used it as a tagline, but more as a positioning statement for how we would serve up what we offered customers. Many of our customers were mid-size independent retail record stores, operating in small and large urban cities. The idea of helping them to get the kind of music that they wanted was engaging. Our work would get them track able sales results and they would recognized that.The fact that we were and still are today a brand promotion label gave our positioning statement double meaning. Once it caught on, our brand's positioning became the basis for building the brand experience across our entire marketing plan. We realized that the key was to make sure that our actual brand experience delivers on what was intended in the positioning. In the label at the time, we made sure we helped our customers showcase and display our products to get the recognition they needed in order to generate a sale. We make a big deal when one of our customers sale our products by celebrating every successful sale. It became part of our personality and part of the experience of working with us. This came directly out of our positioning statement:"We'll give you what you want." Take a look at our brand and what we've done for positioning. Notice, our tagline is a big hint: Quinn Records TM: "Where the sound of blues,gospel, jazz and soul music is made." Notice the level of emotion in each of our tagline, which essentially highlights our brand's positioning. Here's how we translate the tagline into our positioning statements: Quinn Records TM: Makes you feel like you'll get what you asked for. We digs deep into the emotional benefit that we offer to our customers. We're always thinking about how we want our customer to feel about us, every time they think about us. We tried to capture that in a brief statement that best describes what we can offer, and keep a list of options on hand. And throw them out to the team and do a little brainstorming. It's makes for a lot of fun,especially when those creative juices start flowing and ideas comes from seemly out of nowhere. Visit us: www. quinnrecords.net Download Our Mobile App
by Dwight L. Quinn Blues This Morningby James Gilbert (QR 131232-1)
CLOSE THE DOOR- PE-POLES-AND CLOSE IT QUICK. CAUSE, SOMEBODY JUST THREW A "ROCK" IN OUR BLUES- THE SIZE OF A BRICK! WHO DID? "JAMES GILBERT, DID!"
YEP!
Blues This Morning is bumping head on with the likes of the sound of
the early 60's,i.e. Little Milton Campbell, B.B. King,
Bobby Blues Boy Bland, Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, and the
style-like-list goes on and on, James Gilbert's nailed this song
he put his Soul in, Blues This Morning.
Rock is James fundamental style and it is awesome packed, when he blends both the Rock-a-peal and moody blues together, then you got an ex-bluesion,
on your hand,Blues This Morning, has that rumble.
James powerful vocals don't leave much room for criticism because this song
has all of the flavor that's needed to stir up the
taste buds of Rocking Blues Lover's all over the universe.
It's Smooth and Rock hard-Blues This Morning," CD.
Available: CD Compilation Tracks: 16 Album: GO SLOW-Blues Crossing Cat.No. (QR 121222-1) Format: CD/CAS/12"Vinyl/ Digital Genre: Blues/Soul Order Online: www.quinnrecords.net Published 6/25/2013 YouTube Quinn'President Choice
Have a listen, "BLUES THIS MORNING" Enjoy.
By Dwight L. Quinn I'm just a bigger fan today as I was in years past of Groups like the Chi-lites out of Chicago, Illinois. I had the pleasure of speaking with Marshall Thompson Saturday by phone in great length. And I was totally delighted with the wisdom and enlightenment that I gained from my conversation with Marshall. He brought me out of that Old School mode and into the understanding of the now a day, what-you-should-know, about the entertainment climate the habits, attitudes and practices that influences the Live Music Market. Well it soon became pretty clear that I had been walking around with blinders on, being distracted by the effects, and paying little or no attention to the,cause i.e.(the Market). We both agreed that the Music business has definitely changed and the audience (the Market) that we play to today is just as different as we were (the Market) in the 60's. I can't emphasize enough as to how different that we were. And it's that different that causes,change, how they buy, how they listen to music, how they move it around, what's acceptable today as opposed to what was and wasn't acceptable yesteryear is 360 degrees different. But the fundamental foundation of the Business are still intact. Marshall Thompson new Album, Hot On A Thing is riding on the waves of the today's sound but like a pro, Marshall carefully applied this legendary Groups signature-sound-style that is a legacy of the Chi-Lites. For those of you, who haven't had the pleasure of hearing, Marshall's new Album, Hot On A Thing. I highly recommend you to click this link and Listen,
Just fourteen and half more weeks will mark a very special milestone at Quinn Records TM. It will be 42 years ago that I recorded and released my first album, by a local r&b group from St. Louis called The Amazing Dramas. Thus began the amazing legacy of River City Records and approximately one month later the label was re-named Quinn Records TM. LiL Aaron Mosby’ Rev. Anderson Sparks, Chas. O. Collier & The Original Golden Ares of Cincinnati,The Kirkwood Spiritual Ares,The Masonic Quintet,Albert Phillips & The Divine Messengers, Jimmy Jones’ Carolyn Adams, Terry Williams, Oliver Johnson, Nikki Cunningham, KL&R2, Osee Anderson,Mississippi Red,Melvin "Smokehouse" Moore, Rev. Roy Page & The Spiritual Ares, Leroy Crisp & The Orig. Southern Harmonizers, Carlina Q. Aldridge, James Gilbert all were recorded by Dwight L. Quinn. Adding to this musical legacy. Quinn has released over 633 songs, over 50 jazz, 150 gospel and 110 r&b,soul,hip-hop,owned D.L. Quinn Music Publishing and Boogie City Music Group in St. Louis. Since 1971 Quinn Records TM is still going as strong as ever with new releases on KL& R2, James Gilbert, and Oliver Johnson available now. GO SLOW-Blues Crossing. We continue our look at the Boogie City 33 tour scene with James Gilbert feature on GO SLOW- Blues Crossing CD Compilation, Oliver Johnson and KL&R2. Oliver is looking towards the last week in September, 2013 to get things rolling. The Show is planned to awesome Artists will be performing the hit recordings and will feature Nationally known Recording artists performing on each Show. Will have a complete Show Schedule a few days and we will posting this Online at Quinnrecords.net. It’s time for Quinn to get the Digital Mood. We've got a nice bunch of new songs being release for this year and I am making my customer choices easier. I've added a Digital Download Station category online at the Quinn Store, and I've reduced the songs that I'm offering to you in Digital format from $0.99 to $0.89 go to www.quinnrecords.net and buy digitally. It’s the fastest, easiest and cheaper way to buy our music.. And don’t forget, the Quinn Records TM Top-10 Song Charts are now posted Mondays and Fridays on our website as well. Dwight L. Quinn Founder
by Dwight L. Quinn If there's one thing that I've notice , here at the Company, is the strong sense of creative energy that seem to never stop flowing in the Artist family at Quinn Records TM. I'm delighted to have such great talent around me who are not only looking out for their own career growth and welfare but they also put their skills and talents where ever needed in the Company doing whatever it takes to keep both areas operating at full steam. This week alone behind the scene Artist Kevin Wheeler has been working diligently both in the Studio and in the field recruiting, interviewing and rehearsing new Band members for the kick off of KL&R 2 road shows, with the plan being focused on most shows being self-produced. Kevin has remixed his I Got My Swag On Album, and has expanded the Album to include three (3) new songs. Kevin has brought on Harvey Lee on as his percussionist. The Artist Family has decided last week to increase the Band size from five to eight musicians, that's going to include two horns, that will give them a total of three horns in the Band. A.J Dickerson,who's a well known Music Scholar and entertainer in his own rights, in the St. Louis Music World was instrumental in partnering Quinn Records TM with a local venue to bring Live Southern Soul, Blues and Jazz Shows through this new St. Louis venue. Mr. Dickerson, Oliver Johnson and myself, met Monday at the Club with the owner and finalized the arrangement. The first Show according to Oliver Johnson has been scheduled for Thursday September 26th,2013 and there will be regular scheduled Live Shows from that point on. I want to re-introduce St. Louis to the outstanding Southern Soul acts that are out there today, that would be a new exciting and long awaited experience for the St. Louis Market. James Gilbert is bringing a new and exciting image to Quinn Records TM with his education and major in Broadcasting,Voice overs for Radio and Television. James has already made a great noticeable impact on the Company not only as a great outstanding artist but his behind the scene work it's very welcomed. James is now the official Voice for Quinn Records TM taking us into the today's world of visual and sound technology.
The Artist Family Team working together, communicating,sharing ideas among each other and helping each other in there career goals is something to watch. They most definitely want the customer to know that they will be at all times, giving to them by way of there music, their very best.
As the model for a label has changed, so has the role of the artist in the industry. Artists today are more powerful than ever, noting that an active Artist can reach high on Charts today with very little traditional radio or other marketing. They are business people, marketers... They know how to relate to their audience and know how to connect properly. Selling "Show Tickets" is the Artist goal. The income is huge for an Artist who sells from 6,000 to 28,000 tickets per year with a indie Label. Quinn Records TM and other different independent labels have different programs and signing with John Doe label, for example, is not the same as signing with Willie Earl records. Artists need to be aware of which indie labels do what best before signing a deal. An Artist that's into Techno Soul is not going to do well with a Traditional Blues indie Label. And with today's artists having more options than ever of how to release their music, The old record contracts are being tossed aside in favor of a more egalitarian split -- and with digital platforms becoming ubiquitous, the differences between major labels and indies will be reduced. Yet the role of the label -- as the vessel, the support structure and the team assisting the artist in achieving success -- will not be going away. The power is and always have been with the artist "but the infrastructure and guidance of a label is still a very important and necessary role in the music industry." Visit Us: quinnrecords.net
You know the old wisdom "All that shine is not gold, and " Looks are Deceiving and so on. Well there's a whole lot of truth to those aged old pieces of wisdom. And I discovered it in my early days in the Music business, I came into the Business like most, totally with no reality at all, I told my reality to wait outside for me until I get back, I got this! Than all of a sudden I noticed that I went from eating choice cut fresh meat to can meat, potted meat,spam. I'm asking myself now what going wrong here, this is not the way it suppose to be, I'm in the record business. I' ll go to my office,put up the phone to make a call , no dial tone, so I leave but when I get the parking lot, guess what, my car is gone,so I calls the police so that I can make out a police report for a stolen car, well don't you have any idea who may have stolen your car the policeman would ask, and I would say yeah!,police would ask,than who and tell'em the Bank stole it. Man those days was rough when you leave reality waiting outside. I'm glad of one if nothing,else, my father always taught me and brothers to honest with your self first and you'll find it easy to honest with others. I realized that I was going to succeed at this business unless I go back and get my reality back and than go forth.
Now I see my business as a business, a living entity that needs focused attention, that need to know not only who its customers are,but what they want, in terms of products and service. We don't second guest. Don't be fooled Music is Entertaining but it takes Business management with planning to get it to and from the stag to the Bank. I average 20 working hours a day, trying to get Quinn Records TM right, right doesn't mean that we're doing something that is wrong, right in our strategy that means,simply staying on course with our idea and plan. We're not in the Hit making business, we don't trade on Wall Street,we're in the Listening business specializing in Artist Development and make music for, as they use to call it,"turn-table" use and for customer who only like new music in their favorite genre and wants it right now. We're diverse, we build on diversification it gives us a broader base product line and allows us to keep niche music that identifies with an eager to served Market making available the music that they are most familiar with thus rekindling again a useful and valuable product in today's market. visit us online at; http://www.quinnrecords.net
First, I want to began by wishing all of you a very Happy and Safe 4th of July. And despite how bad our Economic condition may seem, we have always managed to overcome adversities and bounce back, that is the American way and we should first above any and all things be conscious of that fact.
I don't think that there is not a day that goes by that I don't asked the question,What kind of business am I really in? And I asked that question regularly because sometimes you can loose your direction or should I say focus as to what it is that you are doing and where are you going? Well, over the years I finally narrowed that question down to two simple words that I clearly understood and thus the enlightenment put me directly on track and I began to see clearly what kind of business that I was really in. The business that I'm really in with Quinn records TM is, the listening business. When I first started in this business I was always prepared to tell myself and anyone else who asked me, what kind of business am I in, I would be quick to answer by telling them that I was in the music business, or the record business and so on, but I notice that these terms was never clicking, they where empty, to broad, the music business was to generic, what was really going on here? than it came together it dawn on me, I'm in the listening business. Now all of my planning and goals are built around that business, the listening business.Now I feel perfectly at ease, my directions are clear and I'm comfortable at being the Clerk behind the counter at the Record Store.
And, that's the feeling that you're get when you follow Quinn Records TM, we have the ability to let you hear our music first-hand at every opportune time that is made available and at what ever vehicle available to get it out to our fans. We make our music available for you to listen to it at your own convenience 24/7.
We know that it is unusual for Record Labels to Market like other Industries, but thing changes, those changes can cause you to have change your course in order to continue be able to effectively compete in an ever changing Industry and Market.
Last week we had the good fortune to introduce to you our new CD Single Blues This Morning by James Gilbert (QR 121222-1) that became the top song on the new Blues CD Compilation,GO SLOW-Blues Crossing that was released this Spring.
Blues This Morning is a slow,moody soulful cut written by Eugene Smiley an awesome articulate song writer and composer.Smiley laid down a mixed of styles that you can easily pick on as you listen and involve with this song, for instant the piano part is much a Ray Charles signature, a melody that haunts you, and spells out Little Milton Campbell in all expects, the drive and mood puts you back to top of the sixties when Stax Records began to experiment with Soul and Specialty along with Peacock was putting a New spin on the way Blues licks was being laid down no more twelve bar Blues licks, the search was on for new sounding blues,Soul with deeper into the Church house. Blues This Morning got all of Old Soul flavor put into it. And James Gilbert a young up coming Bluester with powerful vocals is wailing out the sound that he heard from his mentors of the Blues and Soul arena. James has to be given an "E" for excellence for vocal job on Blues This Morning.
It's moody! It's the Blues."Blues This Morning CD.
Available on CD Compilation;
Album: GO SLOW-Blues Crossing Cat.No. (QR121222-1)
Format: CD/CAS/12"Vinyl/ Digital Genre: Blues/Soul
Order Online: www.quinnrecords.net
Published 6/27/2013
On Sales this 4th of July week is our ever-popular "Jazz On Washington Ave by Oliver Johnson for $ 9.98 and I really believe for you Jazz Lovers that Jazz On Washington Avenue is a long awaited works. Oliver Johnson put together an assemble of St. Louis legendary Jazz musician for Jazz On Washington Ave, that included jazz pianist,Henry Burns,St. Louis renowned bass play Raymond Eldridges Jr. and on drums, Wallace Alvin Troop, jazz and blues guitarist, Henry Taylor and horn,Oliver Johnson himself. The entertainment history of these talented musician are extensive, making Jazz On Washington Avenue a Jazz treasure.It's available on Sale at www.quinnrecords.net.
Quinn Records TM is known for it's Traditional Quartet Gospel catalog, that has the likes of, The Masonic Quintet, Albert Phillips & The Divine Messengers, Rev. Roy Page & The Spiritual Ares, Leroy Crisp & The Original Southern Harmonizers, Rev. Anderson Sparks & The St. Louis Silvertones, Elder Henry Moye & The Kirkwood Spiritual Ares and Charles O.Collier & The Original Golden Ares.Our Gospel catalog is a valued collection of a Artistry that is lacks the music industry today, but is a lave and well at Quinn Records TM. You order theses Great Gospel treasures online at Quinn Records TM 24/7 and get free shipping on our Volume Purchase program.Check us out at www.quinnrecords.net.
Quinn Records TM President Choice Channel at YouTube is a great tool designed for our fans. They have first-hand access to hear what Quinn music is being sent and offered to Broadcast Radio. I wanted my fans to hear what we are doing in this highly competitive Market that is coming from Quinn Records TM and YouTube is that vehicle being used to get our music to our fans quick and fast, giving them, the fan the power to judge and decide the value of our music. So, Quinn's President Choice is the place to visit and stay abreast to music we send to Radio. Now you our fans can stay in the know as to what we are doing and how our music is sounding,visit Quinn's President Choice and Hear It-First.
New CD Single;
YouTube Quinn'President Choice Have a listen, "Blues This Morning" Enjoy.
