Aretha: Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP Dr John Cooper Clarke & Hugh Cornwell The label’s co-founder Geoff Barrow

The label’s co-founder Geoff Barrow of Portishead was one of the many who’d been drawn to the music as it made waves online

The 1997 debut studio album was the first of their three self-titled albums and was produced by Scott Litt

the plantation history and the ups and downs of the Black community that made homes of this reparation town

2021’s collaboration between Ed Sheeran and Elton John ‘Merry Christmas’

one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer

Aretha: Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP Dr John Cooper Clarke & Hugh Cornwell The label’s co-founder Geoff BarrowThe super talent Aretha Franklin just turned 18 years old when she recorded her album Aretha with The Ray Bryant Combo. This 1961 album was her first album release on the Columbia label and showcases her covers of a range of jazz and pop standards. It was the material upon which Arethas soul kingdom and unique personal style were built. Producer John Hammond followed the formula he once prescribed for his discovery Billie Holiday: standards and blues