SPRING SUMMER AND THAN COME'S FALL!

by Dwight L. Quinn
This Summer you'll be hearing a lots more R&B coming out of our doors in these Summer Releases due out June,2013. Kevin of KL&R2 in particular are working on an aggressive Soul project that will almost surely put him and KL&R 2 in a demanding position. 
And,James Gilbert our hot,new Recording Artist that hails from Kansas City, Missouri has already shown us what he can do. James has brought a whole new dimension and broadness to our sound and the fans are letting us know that by keeping James at the very Top of our Song Chart each week. James is expected to be releasing his second Album on the Quinn Records Label this Summer. With new and original cuts,and you guest it, it will have all of that KC "Rock" in each of the Songs along with those powerful vocal cords spurting out  soulful tunes.Oliver Johnson, the guy that brought the trumpet to soul, said that he has a bunch of new songs that he put together between gigs. Oliver will be offering a bit of both,Jazz and Soul in this package this Summer. I can't promise you how the weather is going to be out of doors but I can surely promise you that inside of Quinn Records TM, it's going to be HOT! And than comes Fall, this is the time when we usually Releases our last project for the year,i.e. October, but there's something usual about this coming October 27th, 2013 but from my perspective, it doesn't seen like it's been that long,but time doesn't lie either. This October 27th, 2013 will be marking our 42nd year in the Blues Business,"My-My Ain't It Funny How Time,Just Slips On Away?.-GO SLOW-Blues Crossing! 

SUBMITTING YOUR MUSIC TO QUINN RECORDS TM

by Dwight Quinn, April 26th, 2013

Today the phone calls are a bit different than they were a few minutes back, when a promising artists would call us and ask, if we accepted unsolicited demos, and in our case the answer would always be "yes and then we would proceed on to give the caller instructions as to  how to send us the demo.
But, today the call come in asking us, do we accept unsolicited demos, and our answer is still,yes, but the different in this call is that the promising artist is now asking us can they email us a mp3 or several mp3's of their song or they would ask us to go to their website to both look and listen to their music. That process is good in one way but harmful in the other. Here's what I mean, Quinn Records TM take music very seriously, and we are always releasing new projects and in most cases with new upcoming artists. But in order to do that on a continuous bases, like year end and year out, we must have an inventory of available music. We get that available music from demos being sent in to us and we process those demos into our inventory and add the demo to our Library. Now only the demos the match our style of music gets to go into that inventory. So when each release quarter  rolls around we don't have to run around looking for new music, we already have it,and ready to go. Call it old school,but we call it resourcefulness. It's clear that technology is great for getting thing their fast,and being accessible, but that human thing that makes us different is utilizing time,each Thursday for many,many minutes we have set aside four hours( 10:00 am til 2:00 p.m) dedicated to listening to the demos that came in that week and when we hear one that meets our standards than we grab it up,process into our Library and contact the Artist with our decision, we don't mess around. We are serious, and we know that the next big act is out there somewhere and we want it. Now the guy that calls in and wants us to stop and go to there website or send us an mp3 along with the 6000 emails that we get everyday, we can't process them in that way. Email gets deleted, computers crashes and gets attacked by viruses, that's not good for neither one of us. Our physical Library don't have those kind of crises or threats, so the artists Demo is always available to us to be used in a Quinn's project.  Our newest Artist to the Quinn Records TM family of Recording Artists, James Gilbert, It's A Real Good Sign, was selected from our Library of Demos and he's doing well, but if it wasn't for our Library of Demos,he would have been over looked. So we have a Demo Policy that is good for both parties, a Demo is a File and that's the way we treat it. And that's the place where we go to four times a year when it's time to get ready for us to release a new project. So I hope that this shaded a little light on submitting your music to Quinn Records TM. Keep your Demos coming in.

JAMES GILBERT QUINN NEWEST MEMBER TO IT'S FAMILY OF RECORDING ARTIST IS BEING WELL RECEIVED BY RADIO PROFESSIONALS

James Gilbert made his debut presence  known on the Quinn Records TM label on September 28th, 2013 with a reissued  original  hot cut  titled "Keep On Keeping On", his version of Brook Benton's "63" R&B hit song,"Rainy Night In Georgia" "and a original  slow-moody Blues cut,titled "Blues In The Morning". The songs has made James Gilbert one of the most recognizable new up coming R&B/Blues artist  in the industry today. To further prove this statement ,Airplay reports received by Quinn is used to compile Quinn's Top-10 Song Chart and James songs has been ranked on nearly all of the Charts since the release of his  debut CD,"Keep On Keeping On". Kansas City is where James Gilbert calls home.  KC has always been a key market for Blues Music and over the years Kansas City have produced some of the biggest names in  R&B/Blues music such as, Annette "Cotton Candy" Washington, Arnold "Gate mouth" Moore, and Lighting Hopkins just to name a few of the many Kansas City R&B/Blues  gurus. Now,James Gilbert is walking along that path with his strong ambitious R&B rocking Blues style that has people calling him the next great KC Blues giant like,"Lightning Hopkins, while re-kindling the fire that made Kansas City one the top ranking Markets  in the Blues Business.I'm really excited about James, said Dwight Quinn founder of Quinn Records TM, he can carry us to a level of high achievement, because Blues Music is our Business and having a talent like James delivering the real-true sound of the Blues will give us that recognition. Blues Radio has very high standards when it comes to Blues Music, so when you see those Professionals embrace a Artist like they are doing with James Gilbert, than you better watch out, you could very well be looking at the next Little Milton Campbell,Albert King or Bobby Bland coming over the horizon, said Dwight Quinn.

A short tour is being planned that will cover thirty-three U.S. Cities, giving James the opportunity to take his Blues Business to the streets. James said that he's eager to get started because performing live on stage is in his blood and that's where I'm at my best self, James said. James has six songs on Quinn Records TM's New Release,"GO SLOW-Blues Crossing", which is a Special Compilation that features eight of Quinn's Blues/Soul Artists. James Gilbert bringing the Kansas City blues sound to the Album makes it hard to cut it off, when you play it. You get a whole mix of Blues styles, such as, Osee Anderson Chicago style, LiL Aaron Mosby,Delta stlye, Oliver Johnson,Urban style, Mississippi Red, Traditional style and Carl Marshall Texas blues styles.
 James has been invited to do several Radio interviews with the most recent one was on April 15, 2013 with Kevin LEGS Walker of btinternet.com (UK). James has also, been actively promoting his need project through  Radio Drops and Voice Overs that he has been in great demands for by the Media.

Quinn Records TM has just recently released new Single by James Gilbert titled,It's A Real Good Sign. It's A Real Good Sign has already hit the Quinn's Top-10 Song Chart for Monday, 2013 in the #4  spot, making it the third Song that James has on Quinn's Top-10 Song Chart. It's a powerful indication from the Airway that this new Kansas City songster is about to Break. It's A Real Good Sign.
The song "It's A Real Good Sign was published by Quinn Records TM on their YouTube Channel,"Quinn President Choice", please have a listen. Enjoy!

OLIVER JOHNSON GOT NEW MATERIAL COMING OUR WAY.

Oliver Johnson "the guy that bought the trumpet to Soul", has been busy working Shows six and sometimes seven nights a week found time to get a little Studio work in between gigs. Today he told me that he have come with some awesome new material that will fit Quinn Records TM taste to a tee. Well, Oliver should know what kind of music that we like. Since he's credited with over eight Albums and four Singles on the Quinn Records TM's label. Oliver Johnson is a very active member of the St. Louis blues, jazz and Motown community. He appears frequently at R& B concerts, clubs, and private parties both as single performer and as a leader of his own group,:The Nite Train Express". Oliver at the age of 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, the famous Jazz organist Tabb Smith and his group would rehearse in Oliver's home. At ten years old, Oliver started the study of the trumpet with Harry Turner of the Count Basie Band. Oliver's first professional performance, at age 13, 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 Westmoreland,Inc. This band that eventually became Albert King's Band included Motown recording regulars like Tyrone Perry and Paul Jackson. For 12 years Oliver toured throughout Europe 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 and The Pips, Rufus Thomas (Walking The Dog), 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 serious Be-bop trumpet to Falsetto R&B singing. Oliver signed on with Quinn Records TM in 2004 and have since created an impressive Catalog of titles both in the R&B, Soul and Jazz genres constantly performing headliners shows in venues all over the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

NEW SONG ADDED TO QUINN'S PRESIDENT CHOICE CHANNEL-HEAR IT-FIRST!

by Dwight L. Quinn

It's A Real Good Sign by James Gilbert (QR131232-1)

HIT-THE FLOOR-PE-POLES!

WHO THREW THAT "ROCK" IN MY BLUES?

"JAMES GILBERT, DID!" 

It's A Real Good Sign really spells out who James Gilbert
 is and how wide spread his musical talent goes. 
Rock is James foundation, as you can pick up in, 
It's A Real Good Sign, this song has a lot of jam in it,
along with James powerful tenor vocals gives this song 
all of the zest that it needs to get across to Rocking Blues 
Lover's allover the world.  
It Rocks! It's A Real Good Sign. 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 4/16/2013 YouTube Quinn'President Choice
Have a listen, "IT'S A REAL GOOD SIGN" Enjoy.

QUINN HIRES HARVEY LEE AS ITS' NEW ENTERTAINMENT MANAGER.

by Dwight L. Quinn
April 15th, 2013

Managing performances, events, artists and company's entertainers will be the responsibility of Mr. Harvey Lee Entertainment Manager for Quinn Records TM. Harvey Lee is coming to Quinn Records TM with over thirty-five years of Entertainment Management experience. Twenty-six of those were spent the United States Army where he performed as a Musician in Military Bands around the Globe, part of that experience lead Harvey into Club Management while Stationed in Germany. Harvey continued his musical activity playing local and national Bands here in the U.S. and performs occasionally as a Club DJ for various events.Harvey's love for the music business allowed him to gain great exposure and success in Booking acts as part of his wide array of Entertainment activities. A natural people-person a heart, Harvey is a natural for this job. Harvey will work extensively throughout the world. The job that Harvey will be doing for Quinn will provides limitless opportunities to travel nationally or internationally in markets where Quinn's music prominent This is a stressful and demanding job, but Harvey's project management and people skills will assists him in managing sufficiently. The position requires the Harvey to multi task effectively in this competitive, fast paced environment!! As the first order of business Harvey's main focus for Quinn will be to identify, select, create, oversee, manage thirty-three (33) small type venues with seating capacities not to exceed 800 and not less than 400 seats on an ongoing and continue bases, with the expected revenue goal of approximately $264,000 annually and develop an opened door communication with company artists, vendors, local radio stations, records stores, press etc. Harvey also will be working with parks, lodges, holiday venues, international organizations, company artists, hotels, and other companies involved in the entertainment industry. Harvey will create and have a team of professionals to manage and delegate responsibilities to. They include costume designers, makeup artists, sound and lighting technician, performers and other professionals.We Welcome Mr. Harvey Lee aboard. You can contact Mr. Harvey Lee by email: harveylee@quinnrecords.net -GO SLOW-Blues Crossing!

QUINN APPROVED KL&R2'S NEW R&B/SOUL RECORDING PROJECT FOR JUNE 2013.

Early today Quinn approved a very ambitious R&B project presented to the Company by the R&B group KL&R2 who has been a member of the Quinn Records TM recording family since 2003. KL&R2 and Quinn have for a very long time wanted to do a real down-to-earth Rhythm and Blues/ Soul project that really represented the heart and true nature of Soul music. And in order to do such a thing we had to go back in the past and search out  and identify  a source among a huge regiment of  talent that was performing  in the era of Soul from the time of 1962
up til 1966, that would fit the message and style that we wants to relay to our customers and Soul music fans. Kevin, the front man for KL&R2, came up with a choice that Quinn could not refuse. For the focal point of the project Kevin chose two top hit cuts recorded by the late-great King of Soul, Mr.Solomon Burke," If You Need Me Call Me"and "Tonight's The Night". Kevin told Quinn that  he felt this famous artist and without one  shadow of a doubt  he could pull this project off as tribute to the King of Soul Solomon Burke. Kevin couldn't have come up with a better choice,because Mr. Solomon Burke was right there at the beginning of the Soul music era and ranked high among the top Soul acts of the time.So with Quinn's blessing, Kevin got the the green light to go ahead with the project that will be launched the first week in June, 2013. The project will be recorded and videoed  in front of a Live audience and Kevin has promised us and his fans that he's going to nail this very ambitious Soul and Blues project that is  due to be  released on the Quinn Records TM label this Summer 2013. -GO SLOW-Blues Crossing!