Thursday, October 10, 2013

BLUES THIS MORNING ( THE MOODY BLUES SONG)

by Dwight L. Quinn
10/10/2013

"Blues This Morning" is a 2009 song by the Kansas City rocker singer/songwriter/musician
 James Gilbert.
It was written by K-City Records owner and Producer Eugene Smiley,Sr.,and was first
released on Big Woody's, Going Home cd and recently released on the Quinn Records TM's
2012 popular 2-CD Box Set album Go Slow Blues Crossing. The album is a concept album
chronicling the typical style,side and sound of Blues "Blues This Morning" featured on the third track, which is titled "Blues This Morning."
It is one of two songs written by Eugene Smiley,Sr. on Go Slow-Blues Crossing, with the other being "A Real Good Sign." The song (by Special Guest Carl Marshall, titled" I Got The Blues Trying To Find Love") get a group of musician together taking turns in telling about their personal experience of how they got blues while trying to find love on a pleasant, sunny morning, while the chorus and bridge suggest wistful nostalgia from the inquisitive Carl Marshall the narrator:

"My baby left me this morning, And I just couldn’t understand
Ask her why she’s leaving, She said she’s found another man"

"Blues This Morning" was one of James Gilbert's first compositions for the Moody Blues.
It was also the second Moody Blues recording to feature him on lead vocals, the first song
being the cover of "Rainy Night In Georgia", from Keep On Keeping On. The album would
later go on to include some highly successful songs for the Moody Blues, such as "Oh Baby
You Don't Have To Go" (LiL Aaron Mosby), "Send Me Someone To Love" (Mississippi Red),
 and "Last Night" (LiL Aaron Mosby).
"Blues This Morning" was later released in 2013 as the second track on the Quinn Records TM
CD/SP  single "Keep On Keeping On".

"BLUES THIS MORNING", is on our GO SLOW-Blues Crossing (2 CD Box Set)   click on link to order our 2 CD Box Set,Now!
Code: 612106121222
Listen to: Blues This Morning


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Monday, October 7, 2013

VIDEO OF QUINN RECORDS TM'S RECORDING ARTIST KL&R2 REHEARSING THEIR BRAND NEW RELEASE TITLED, "LET'S GO PARTY".

by Dwight L. Quinn
10/7/2013

 Here's a video recorded by Carla of Winksays Production capturing Quinn Records TM's recording artist KL&R2, rehearsing their brand new soul n blues release titled, "Let's Go Party". Meet the members of Kevin Wheeler's Rockin' Soul n' Blues band  "R2", starting with Kevin,Jr..(drums), Larry,(key boards), Harvey Lee,(Percussions & Background vocals),JP.,(Bass) and Mike Bella,(Lead Guitar).



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Friday, October 4, 2013

OLIVER JOHNSON WILL PERFORM WITH RICAHARD BROOKS FORMERLY OF THE IMPRESSIONS AND AJSR & MOTHER'S CHILDREN AT DEJA VU LI CAFE

Richard Brooks
by Dwight L. Quinn
10/4/2013


Singer/songwriter/composer/trumpeter and international recording artist Oliver Johnson is bringing back to St.Louis for the second time around,Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and original founding member of the legendary iconic group,The Impressions, Richard Brooks whose new critically lauded Album Richard Brooks I'm Back is fast becoming a fan favorite, will perform with AJSR & Mother's Children at the Deja Vu li Cafe at 2805 Target Drive, Florissant, Missouri on Sunday, October 20, in St. Louis, Missouri. 
 Oliver Johnson will be join by other guests including Renee Smith and saxophonist Peaches for one jam-packed night of music. 
 INBeat calls Oliver "an artist who continues to grow before our eyes," and says Richard Brooks is a "critical acclaimed songwriter and artist.."




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Sunday, September 29, 2013

QUINN RECORDS TM RELEASES NEW ALBUM ON NOVEMBER 5 THE BEST OF OLIVER JOHNSON

by Dwight L. Quinn
09/29/2013


Two time Sodexho Award-winning blues/soul/jazz trumpeter Oliver Johnson is  one of the most proliferated trumpet greats of all time....Oliver, known as the guy who brought the trumpet to Soul." On November 5, 2013 Quinn Records TM will release The Best of Oliver Johnson, a rocking collection of Oliver's top tunes  celebrating Oliver's six years as an international blues/soul/jazz recording artist and a professional musical experience that started  at age seven. Recorded in Centreville, Illinois and produced by Quinn Records TM producer/ songwriter/ label owner,Dwight L. Quinn the album is a mix of blues and soul sounds that allowed Oliver to stretch his thundering-trumpet solo's to all time highs.

Oliver wrote,You Make Me Sing The Blues track, Quinn wrote five additional tracks and the album was topped with four covers. The songs were collected from Oliver's best-sellers. The Best of Oliver Johnson will bring Oliver's discography to nine albums,since signing with Quinn Records TM in 2004.

 Making up the core of Oliver's Nite Train band on the CD are Benton (drums), Henry Taylor
(guitar), Oliver (keyboards), Nephew Davis (bass), Oliver (Trumpet). Oswald Peters and Julio each add guitar to three tracks. Oliver, who vocal duties are to wam-bam the audience, was inspired by the sessions to monorate in the songs, something that ole band musician use to do, talk to the audience and/or the band members while the song is in play, singing If You Repay Evil For Good,Oliver would break out and direct his Nite Train Band and shout out to whoever is listening that it's hot up in here, making The Best of Oliver Johnson the most personal, free-jamming and just plain fun recording of  his nearly four-decade career.

According to Oliver, "I have a personal attachment to the music in this album. Mr. Harry Turner my music teacher while in high school would always reminded me that music is about feeling -- And I don't ever forget that".
My hope is that everyone who listens to,The Best of Oliver Johnson feels it. I know that I sure did!" Oliver  is signed with the prestigious LA De Da Entertainment and Events in St. Louis and he will be touring nationally in support of the album.

Oliver's history is proof that dreams do come true. Oliver at age six, began his study as a vocalist with his mother,Roberta Johnson of Uttica Mississippi. Roberta, who was a gospel church singer, also introduced Oliver to the music of performers like Louis Armstrong and Nancy Wilson. When Oliver was eight years old, a famous jazz organist Tabb Smith and his groups use to rehearse in Oliver's home. At ten years old, Oliver started the study of the trumpet with Mr. Harry Turner of the Count Basie Band.

Oliver's first professional performances at thirteen, started at the Cosmo Hall in East St. Louis that featured regular acts like Ike Turner, Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Milton and Albert King.
After high school Oliver started touring with Waestmoreland, Inc. The Band that eventually became Albert King's Band included Motown-Recording regulars like, Tyrone Perry and Paul Jackson. For twelve years (12) Oliver toured throughout UK and Japan playing trumpet and singing with Mel and Tim (Backfield In Motion), Joe Tex (Skinny Leg's and All), Shirley Brown (Woman to Woman), Albert King (Born Under A Bad Sign), Gladys Knight & The Pips, Rufus Thomas (Walking The Dog), and Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y Baby).

Aside from Oliver's regular performances he has recently played the Black Rep's Production "One More Time". Oliver is mostly known for his versatility in many different music formats, from Be-bop trumpet to Falsetto R&B singing.

He first recorded under his own name with his Cheese and Butter album a self-produced, project with the help of Roberta his mother. Hard Times! was his second project, Hard Times was later picked up and re-issued on Quinn Records TM label.
He made his first solo albums two in the late 1990's, with bands featuring outstanding musicians, including famed guitarist Oswald Peters. With his be-bop sound and rockin blues band (later featuring side man Henry Taylor), it wasn't long before he was adopted by the southern soul audience as one of their own. .

Oliver signed with Quinn Records TM in 2004, releasing Hard Times: On The Other Side of Midnight!
(which earned him his two Sodexho Lifetime Achievement Awards). In 2007 he joined the late Earl Wilson Jr. Gateway Classics annual events!. He won a Sedexho Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for his dedication to the arts.
During the mid-2000s Oliver has continued recording and touring relentlessly, playing clubs, concert halls and festivals all over, electrifying audiences wherever he performs. Oliver's 2012 Argosy Casino Show featuring the legendary Richard Brooks original founding member of infamous,Impressions was hailed as an over-whelming success.
Oliver and his Nite Train Band continues to tour and work nitely in clues and venues all around the St. Louis City and Metropolitan area and shortly Oliver  will be touring  internationally with his own band.


The Best of Oliver Johnson proves Oliver Johnson's be-bop rocking trumpeting  is a true force of nature, while his songs and lyrics are a living history of the blues n soul earning him the reprutation as the guy who bought the trumpet to soul.
His thundering trumpet like Gabriel's is blowing the walls of blues and soul away. His improvisations on the blues and soul are full of fun and good humor. The blues and soul don't get much better."




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Thursday, September 26, 2013

FIVE QUINN RECORDS TM ARTISTS ARE RECEIVING HUGE INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION

[09/27/2013]

On Thursday, September 26th 2013 The APD Global Radio Indicator Charts ™ posted in it's Top 50 Albums - Today, #20-Quinn Records TM Present GO SLOW Blues Crossing. Soul blues singer James Gilbert's Blues This Morning is the # 1 song, followed by Mississippi Red,Send Me Somebody To Love.

 The late LiL Aaron Mosby a.k.a. Blues Man is making notariety again with the powerful rendention covered of Jimmy Reed's 60's hit Oh Baby, You Don't Have To Go. However LiL Aaron is not a stranger in the UK by no means of the word. Had performed in front of a sold out record crowd of twenty thousand at the Holland, Blues, Festival in 2001.

 Blues singer/guitarist Osee Anderson, Breaking Up Somebody's Home employing his signature guitar licks like those of the late great Jimmy Hendricks and the famous Guitar Watson adds a whole new dimension to Albert Blues-Boy Kings Stax's Records hit recording,Breaking Up Somebody's Home.

 Quinn Records TM artist Kevin Wheeler's domestic releases has dropped today in Brussels Belguim and Victoria Australia.

 FM Brussel [FM98] (98.8 FM) Date: 09/26/2013 05:17:33 am www.fmbrussel.be Elsene, Brussels, Brussels Belgium
 1.) Let's Go Party
2.) The Soul of A Man (Medleys of Solomon Burke)

 West Gippsland Community Radio [3BBR] (103.1 ) Date: 09/26/2013 05:17:33 am 3bbrfm.org.au Drouin, Victoria Australia
1.) Let's Go Party
2.) The Soul of A Man (Medleys of Solomon Burke) 

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

KEVIN WHEELER/KL&R2 CAMP DEBUTED A NEW TRACK TODAY.

by Dwight L. Quinn

The music pro-lif-er-ators over at the Kevin Wheeler/KL&R2 camp debuted a new track today targeted to the audiences of the world’s leading Soul n' Blues guru, the late great Solomon Burke.

” Launched as a tribute recognizing Mr. Burke's great contribution to the art and to the soul n' blues music industry, Kevin's team's aim is to set out and re-discover the profound life impact of this icon works.

The track was made into a medley of songs selected from a broad collection of world-class hits, made famous by Mr. Burke and were fan favorites exclusively for Soul n' blues users. The KL team titled the new track," The Soul of A Man (Medley of Songs by Solomon Burke) the mix of medelys includes, If You Need Me,Tonights The Night and The Price I had To Pay and clocks in at 4:08 minutes in length.

 The songs intro begins with a thundering drum role that would catch the listener by surprise at first, and the second wave Kevin makes this heart-felt announcement, dedicating the song to Mr. Solomon Burke and praying that he rest-in-peace and then he proceeds on into these touching medlodies of moving songs, consisting of “If You Need Me","Tonights The Night," and" The Price I Had To pay". “The Soul of A Man",(The Medleys of Solomon Burke) will rank high among the great works of Kevin Wheeler & KL&R2.

We commend him for his great courage and love for the art and music to take on such a huge undertaking in the effort to keep the Works of a past legend such as Solomon Burke,alive. It ends with a higher,powerful tenor rises that is the signature of Kevin's large vocal ranges that pushes the song skyward as the minutes ticks down to closing of the popular soul medleys the esteemed brava that Kevin has played to crowds worldwide. 

“I was always a Traditional Quartet Gospel singer before I was making soul tracks,” said Kevin. “The Traditional Quartet Gospel singing is the backbone of soul music. Gospel [have] been the direct contributor, and soul n'blues are the way I can bring fresh sounds to people. Real Soul feeling don’t wait for the right timing, it just lets go.. Soul music gives me an audience of stable adults that LOVE soul and dance music from urban stlye genres. I now have the ability to share that soulful and enlightening vision in its purest form with all my fans.



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Friday, September 20, 2013

TERRESTRIAL RADIO'S CRITICS WOULD HAVE YOU THINKING TERRESTRIAL RADIO IS "DEAD".

9/20/2013

Let’s Look Well Into The Matter


Satellite radio, as an example, gained 453,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, bringing its total to 24.4 million. In the same first quarter of 2013, Pandora has around 70 million active users, Pandora One gained more than 700,000 new subscribers, which brings their total subscribers to 2.5 million. Spotify has over 24 million active users,currently and over 6 million paying subscribers.

 Terrestrial radio’s absolute biggest competitor, is iTunes accounting for about 75% of global digital music with over 600 million users worldwide. iTunes has just recently revealed their own iTunes Radio which will compete with the streaming services.

 These numbers reflect global users rather than only in the United States, so the numbers cannot be taken as face value right now. But these are the numbers that critics quote, and even still, some of these numbers can hardly touch the impact of terrestrial radio in the U.S. today.

 Why Digital Radio Is Gaining Strength.

 The question is, how has digital radio gained such speed and momentum, enough to begin to compete with terrestrial radio? For starters, the instantaneous selection of music from one’s library is something that terrestrial radio simply cannot do. Waiting for your favorite song? You don’t have to wait for it to come on the radio—just browse, select and push play.

Another advantage to digital radio is the breadth of one’s music library. Terrestrial radio has its certain playlist of songs decided by the DJ at that time. But with digital and streaming radio, you are the DJ. You have the entire selection of your uploaded or streaming music library at your fingertips, ready to be called up at will.

 Still another advantage is mobility. In the advent of mobile phones and tablets, carrying around your music library has never been easier. There are thinner and sleeker Walkmans these days, but carrying around a device just for radio in addition to your mobile phone or tablet just doesn’t sit well with the majority of consumers.

 Despite All Of The Hype, Terrestrial Radio Still Has Its Own Unique Benefits.

While digital radio is gaining momentum due to these benefits, terrestrial radio still has a hold on the American public for reasons of its own. For starters, some people prefer to not have to choose the music they listen to, and they like a DJ playing the top hits or genre-specific hits of that station for them.
This also helps with song and artist discovery, just in a different way than some of the streaming services.

 Terrestrial radio lives and breathes local content. As wavelengths and signals can only travel so far, radio stations are generally encouraged to maintain some sense of locality in their programming and possibly even sound choice. This includes local news, music from local artists and even advertisements for local businesses that you just can’t get from digital radio.

 In terms of artist royalties, radio stations, for the most part, have got a system, and it’s a system that has worked for many years. Streaming and digital radio services are still trying to work out the kinks in their own plans for rewarding artists for their music, and many people—especially artists—are turned off by this fact.

 And finally, terrestrial radio is free. Several of these digital and streaming providers do end up having free music as well, but terrestrial radio will always be free. No subscriptions necessary. If these providers ever decide to go subscription only, terrestrial radio will always be free. While digital radio does pose something of a threat to terrestrial radio, the traditional medium is just too far engrained to be going anywhere anytime soon. There may be some adaptation involved as the music industry continues to evolve over time, but for the most part, terrestrial radio has found and will continue to hold a special place in the hearts of music listeners.

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