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| I’m Peter Everett and I run Kinace Records. |
| I’ve been passionate about records since I bought my very first one (‘Memphis Tennessee’ by Chuck Berry) back in 1963. By the time I went to university I had enough records to launch a mobile disco (‘Seventh Son’), getting the students bopping to Stax and Tamla while the rival outfits were calling themselves names like ‘Lace Tulip’ and playing psychedelic sit-on-the-floor music. |
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The legendary songwriter John D. Loudermilk gets around the grounds of his home near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in a golf-cart that was given to him by Elvis Presley.
Left to right - that's me, Radio 2 folk producer John Leonard (front) country deejay Nick Barraclough (rear) and the great man himself (driving). |
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After university I went into the local newspaper business, but still ran the disco until my taste in dance music (‘Shotgun’ by Junior Walker) finally lost touch with that of the customers (‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ by Middle of the Road) and I gave up the struggle. |
| From the newspaper I moved into local radio and before long, as well as working in the newsroom, I was hosting a music show, playing new releases and demo tapes. I was the first to give radio-play to the Buzzcocks, Magazine, Slaughter and the Dogs and many other Manchester bands. I gave a job as record-reviewer to Paul Morley, who was later to write for the New Musical Express and manage Frankie Goes To Hollywood. |
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| I suppose I could have gone from there into one of the music networks, but the truth is that I didn’t really enjoy being a radio dee-jay. I spent so much time listening to new releases to see whether there were any half-decent tracks on any of them that I had no time left to listen to the music I loved. So I went into Radio 4 instead and occasionally I made documentaries about music. For instance my first feature was about Manchester band ‘The Smirks’ and was called ‘It’s Hard Work This Rock’n’Roll’. Another documentary – ‘Dancing In The Rubble’ - was about Liverpool music in the early eighties and featured the first ever radio-play of ‘Story of the Blues’ by Wah! (which went on to be a number one hit). |
| Then I made the series I’d been working towards – a complete history of the British teenager from 1945 to the middle of the eighties. ‘You’ll Never Be 16 Again’ (named after the Roy Orbison B-side) went out three times on Radio 4 and (expanded to seven hour-long espisodes and with introductions by John Peel) twice on Radio 1. It generated a book that you can read right here on the Kinace website. |
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| "Is it rolling Bob?" Here's a man I was thilled to meet. Bob Johnston produced the classic Dylan albums of the mid-sixties, including Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline. He also recorded Johnny Cash at San Quentin. |
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| After 25 years at the BBC I left the staff (though I still do radio freelance work) and spent even more time growing my record collection, with buying trips to New York, Chicago, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans. Once I’d decided to launch an online record shop, I grew it even more. If you look at Kinace’s exceptional collections of American roots music – blues, soul, country etc – you’ll see where my musical heart lies, but I reckon there’s something here to suit most tastes, so please browse. |
| And now that you know me, feel free to drop me an email and discuss the sort of music you like and anything in particular you’re looking for. Perhaps I can recommend something you’ll enjoy. |
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| Happy listening. |
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| RADIO PRODUCTIONS by PETER EVERETT |
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| Peter Everett with the great Ronnie Hawkins at his home near Toronto |
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Kinace Records
16 Temple Road
MANCHESTER
M33 2FP
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