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'The Story of Vee Jay', compiled by John Crosby

 

 

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FOLK by John Crosby
(at the Ace Records website)

 

Union Square Music/
Metro Records

 

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John has compiled and annotated

 

 

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john crosby

music publicity/PR

PO Box 230

Hastings

East Sussex

TN34 3XZ

 

Tel:   0845 108 7811

Fax:  0870 041 0577

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John Crosby music publlcity/PR has been in operation since 1990, though John's experience of music media goes back to the early 1980s when he ran the press office at Topic Records.

 

He is the author of 'Professor Longhair: a bio-discography' (currently out of print). As a journalist, he was Folk and International Listings Editor for the now defunct CITY LIMITS, wrote regularly for almost a decade for both Q and MOJO magazines, was News Editor for the still very much alive fROOTS (formerly FOLK ROOTS), editor of RIGHT TRACK (the Ace Records newsletter) and contributed to such titles as HMV CHOICE, OLD TIME MUSIC, BLUES UNLIMITED and JAZZ EXPRESS magazines. Most recently (from February 2000-July 2001) he was Folk and Roots music critic at TIME OUT (London).

 

As a record/CD compiler and sleevenote writer, he has worked on over 100 albums including the best-selling 'The Very Best Of Woody Guthrie' (MCI), 'The Very Best Of Leadbelly' (MCI), 'The Very Best Of Cajun' (Dino), Clannad 'An Diolaim' (MCI), June Tabor 'Anthology' (MCI), Mose Allison 'Sings And Plays' (Ace), the 10-CD series of albums titled 'Celtic Journey' (Eureka/Beehive) and Fairport Convention 'Shines Like Gold' (Eureka/Beehive). 'American Roots-The Essential Album (featuring everyone from Flatt & Scruggs to Eva Cassidy) and 'The Story Of Vee-Jay', a retrospective 2CD set (featuring Jerry Butler, John Lee Hooker, Betty Everett, Jimmy Reed and many more), were both released August 2002 on the Metro label via Union Square Music.

 

Pete Seeger 'Hard Traveling' and 'Songs From The Heart', the latter a single-volume sampler of early American folk (including a diverse cast from Dock Boggs to Phil Ochs, Bascom Lamar Lunsford to Lucinda Williams) both came out on Music Club, as did 'The Legendary Woody Guthrie'. A 4-CD Vanguard Records Box set (tentatively titled 'Ceremonies Of The Horseman' and including key recordings of folk, old timey, blues and rock) has been "a long time a-comin''' but may finally appear via Ace Records sometime in 2007.

 

JUST RELEASED: The 3-CD box set 'The Legendary Sounds Of Sun Studios' (MetroTriples METRTCD823) is a collection of classic blues, country and rock 'n' roll sides from the likes of Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Carl Perkins, Howlin' Wolf and other great musical legends (alongside some interesting musical footnotes).

 

For the reissue of Jonathan And Leigh's only CD 'Third And Main' (Vanguard/Ace), John managed to track down both members of this elusive Ohio folk duo and tell their story in a 2500 word sleevenote, complete with previously unseen photographs and memorabilia. Both of the above releases are now on sale in all good record shops and online stores.

  

John has just begun work on what will be a 4-CD career retrospective of blues guitar legend Peter Green. It is due for release in Autumn 2008. More details soon.

 

The rest of this site is a showcase for the artists that John works with in a PR capacity. If you are a singer or musician looking for a UK publicist, please contact John initially via telephone, fax or email (details are on the left of this page).