First off, thanks so much to all of you that have ordered great music from us over the last few years. OK, so this is a bit difficult – the last two years have been the maddest with so many lives lost or changed for the worse. And I know, as Humphrey Bogart nearly says in Casablanca, “it doesn’t take much to see that the life of a little record shop don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…” But I am passionate about bringing the best Rock ‘n’ Roll and closely related music to people and I want to make sure that this shop is not another victim of the pandemic.

A lot of shops have not survived and I get a chill every time I walk past another boarded-up window. I know that this newsletter is going out online and that many of you will never get a chance to visit the real-life shop but being a tiny team we do feel that we get to know some of you online. Sometimes we become friends on Facebook or other social platforms and other times we meet up at events somewhere around the Rock ‘n’ Roll world. The online world has been vital for our survival during the pandemic not only when we were shut for ten months but also during the ongoing time that we are open but the streets are deserted. So again thank you for keeping us afloat but we are not in safe harbour yet. I guess I may as well state it in stark terms, we need the orders to keep coming and to increase even, as our costs are increasing. I believe we offer a pretty unique service and want to make sure we carry on doing so.

Sheesh, so let’s get off the doom and gloom and look at a fabulous new item we have in for this year…

John Tefteller’s Blues Images Calendar 2022 with FREE CD!

Each year John Tefteller issues a calendar that is illustrated with rare Blues images and annotated with mini-biographies, and birth and death dates of notable artists and more. The calendar really is a work of art and worth every penny on its own – but it also comes with a free CD featuring 24 tracks, all of them remastered and nine live performance recordings of Lead Belly from 1949. Limited copies available so get in there quick!

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