Taste of Chicago FREE download login!
Hello — if you were at the Taste of Chicago and received a FREE Rabbit Factory dowload card with tracks from Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson and JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, please go to:
http://chicago-independent.com/audiocodes
to redeem your tracks. If you weren’t at the Taste but would still like a piece of the free action, send us an email and we will send you a code!
Wiley & the Checkmates appear on NPR!

Thanks to our friends at the Oxford American, the Checkmates were featured in editor Mark Smirnoff’s selections from the music issue. Aside from our favorite southern soul band the issue is full of great southern artists, including a whole disc dedicated to Arkansas artists, please go check it out!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122376545
B’ham Sound Vol 2 Makes Tim Perlich’s Best Reissues of 2009!
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We are happy to have been listed amongst some of our favorites records of this year in Tim Perlich’s Best Reissues of 2009 Blog! Check it out!
Wiley & Checkmates in Oxford American Southern Music Issue!

Mississippi’s own Wiley & the Checkmates appear in the new Oxford American Southern Music issue and the track “Guess You Wouldn’t Know Nothin’ About That” from We Call It Soul is featured on the double disc compilation. Check it out, Allison Feinstock’s piece on the group is excellent!
JC Brooks & Uptown Sound Holiday Revue!

Get ready for the Uptown Holiday Soul Revue, December 12th @ the Double Door, featuring JC Brooks, Heather Perry, Black Bear Combo, East of Edens Soul Express, plus special guests Renaldo Domino, Marvin Tate, and members of Jai Alai Savant, Baby Teeth, and the Blacks! Who knows, this could become the new ‘Waltz’ series in town???
JC Brooks & Uptown Sound with Renaldo Domino in Philly!

Wednesday November 11, 2009
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound w/ Twinight Records Renaldo Domino!
Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus
847 North 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA
8 PM – $8



