New, Limited JC Brooks & Uptown Sound LP available NOW! ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’ 45 still available.
We are proud to release this limited (to 180 hand-numbered copies!!!) color vinyl pressing of JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound’s debut LP, Beat Of Our Own Drum, that comes in a killer metallic blue silk screened jacket and includes download code on the entire album available HERE.
Also still available is the “Get It Together” 45 backed with the dance floor filler “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”.
Purchase the classic black vinyl version here
Purchase the LIMITED Chicago RED VINYL version here
‘I am Trying to Break Your Heart’ 45 available now!!! JC Brooks & Uptown Sound sign to Bloodshot!
Congratulations to JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound for signing with Chicago’s Bloodshot Records! The announcement included the video for their cover of Wilco’s ‘I am Trying to Break Your Heart’, which is seeming to be a DOUBLE SUMMER SINGLE and is STILL available here and in retail stores on classic 45 format!
Purchase the classic black vinyl versionhere
Purchase the LIMITED Chicago RED VINYL version here
Coming soon!!!!
Hello! Sorry for the long silence on the site, we’ve been super busy wrapping up several projects including the Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson album, a stellar collection of Birmingham demos from Jerry Weaver and a very limited, hand-numbered color vinyl repress of JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound’s Beat of Our Own Drum!
Speaking of JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, the band will be performing at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival along with Rabbit Factory’s DJ John Ciba playing sets each night. Come find us!
Also, Eryn Walanka is deep into the Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson documentary. We will be posting a trailer shortly.
Thanks!
The Rabbit Factory, Inc.
JC Brooks & Uptown Sound ‘Get It Together’ LIMITED COLORED VINYL CHICAGO PRESSING! 45
After burning through the first pressing of ‘Get It Together’ b/w ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’ over the summer and during the group’s Spanish tour, we decided to press a very limited “Chicago edition” of RF10 to celebrate the hometown of JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Wilco and the Rabbit Factory. There are only 250 copies featuring the colors of the Chicago flag — blue and white labels surrounded by beautiful, clear red vinyl. Includes download code & mini poster advert.
The black vinyl will remain in print but when this Chicago edition is gone it’s gone!
The video for ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’ has just hit 100,000 views!
The band recently went on tour to Spain to promote the European release ‘Beat of Our Own Drum’ on Vampisoul. Check out their tour blog
Our friend Chuck Sudo reviewed the 45 for the Chicagoist!
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???