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Lucky's Record Bar

Featured Store: Lucky’s Record Bar

Lucky’s Record Bar opened on June 26th 2021 in a tiny space in the old Buttermarket in Redruth, Cornwall. Proper Music’s Graham Jones paid a visit and reckoned it is the smallest record shop in England. The smallest record shop in the UK is VOD Music in Mold, North Wales. He asked owner Kevin Downing […]

The Beat And Track

Featured Store: The Beat and Track

Graham Jones asks Paul Maskell, owner of The Beat And Track, “What was it like to open a record shop during Covid?” My anticipated first-day-of-trading apprehension dissolved just as soon as my first customer stepped through the door at 9.00am. ‘Mr Kingsmill’ as he was then known , Rich as he is now known, promptly […]

Music Week Awards 2021

Proper shortlisted for the Sales Team Award at the Music Week Awards 2021

We’re honoured to once again be shortlisted for the Sales Team Award at the Music Week Awards 2021 which will take place on September 14, 2021 at Battersea Evolution. This is the second year running that we’ve been shortlisted for the award having previously won last year and back in 2017. Pat Howe, our Head […]

Sir András Schiff with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

ECM Records reach number 1 in the Specialist Classical Album Chart

“As you would expect from Schiff, though, the performances of both works are wonderfully rounded and mature.” – The Guardian “If I could give this release six stars, I would.” – The Times “These beautiful period instrument performances directed by Andras Schiff on a restored 1859 Blutner, bring a compelling freshness to Brahms’ much loved […]

Murray McLauchlan

Press Release: Murray McLauchlan

LONDON: Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Order of Canada recipient and 11-time JUNO Award-winning artist Murray McLauchlan challenged himself to look within himself for issues pertaining to systemic racism, privilege, and economic disparity on his landmark 20th album Hourglass, released on July 9th, 2021 through his long-time record label partnership with True North Records.

  1. Bones Of Gilead Richard Thompson 0:43

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  1. Chasing Shadows Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys 0:35

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  1. Fade & Fall (Love Not) Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band 0:30

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  1. Kindness Ben Glover 1:00

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  1. Blues Run The Game Martin Simpson 0:30

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