Billy Hawks - Heavy Soul!As part of Ace 50 BGP has hooked up with our old friends at Concord Music to reissue one of the most important albums in our story. In 1987 as the dance jazz scene morphed into acid jazz Billy Hawks Oh Baby (I Believe Im Losing You) was filling the dance floors where either Gilles Peterson or Baz Fe Jazz were playing. The Prestige Records album, Heavy Soul!, that featured the track, was impossible to find, and frustrated DJs were desperately trying to

for a DJ to unearth that ravishing groove that will lead the dancers to the stars

to a back porch in Nashville

it’s bounced around the Glaswegian underground for decades

Danish indie rock duo The Raveonettes first met in Copenhagen in 2001

rather than the mass pop culture

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synths masquerading as drums and Minsky-Sargeant’s scratchy

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Once again Hannah Peel sprinkles her magic over the album with string arrangements and The Paraorchestra were invited to add their expertise to 4 tracks

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More than half the album's titles draw from the traditional blues and country repertoire Fahey had spent his teen years and young adulthood collecting