STILL Records (from Holland)

[JSngry]

A friend recently hipped me to two compilations on this label - Screaming Black & No Black Money Baby. The music is obscure, really obsure, really really obsure, really, really REALLY obscure R&B from, I'm guessing, the 1950s and early 1960s. The former's music seems to be New Orleans in origin; not sure about that of the latter. Some of it is of severely "local" quality and some of it is just totally killer Sound quality vaires wildly, to put ti mildly. But it's all obsure. Really, really, really, REALLY obscure. Other than Chris Kenner & Lloyd Price on the former, I've never heard of any of these artists.

Which is not all that odd. I mean, I'm a big R&B buff, but I'm in no way a hardcore collector. But when I do a Google search for an artist & song on one of these discs and the only relevant hits that I get are from their inclusion on these discs, I figure that the shits got to obscure. Really, really, really, really, REALLY obscure. I mean, who the hell has, much less puts out, two previously unreleased demos by Baby Little & The Hardbreakers (sic), or a previously unissued cut by Doug Powell & The Valiants? I feel as if I should have heard of Marie Williams And "Cat Scratching" or "You Shouldnt Oughta Done It" by The Night Owl, but damned if I ever have. And neither has Google, other than on one of these CDs.

So who are/is these people/person known only as "The Dutchman" at "P.O. Box 1200 OBL 3260 AE HOLLAND"? And where the hell do they find all these 45s that you'd have a hard time finding even in a backwoods Goodwill store?

As always, thanks in advance!

[J.A.W.]

All I could find was the exact address:

P.O. Box 1200

3260 AE Oud Beijerland

Netherlands

(3260 AE is the Dutch zip code)

[couw]

label remains mysterious, but more comps here

you can find the link through the parent site http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/ by clicking on [this and that]

[JSngry]

label remains mysterious, but more comps here

I would encourage our resident deep R&B experts to peruse the list of records included on these comps and tell me how many they have heard/heard of.

[couw]

All I could find was the exact address:

P.O. Box 1200

3260 AE Oud Beijerland

Netherlands

(3260 AE is the Dutch zip code)

that same address is used by Collector Records

( Collector / Down South / White Label )

[JSngry]

All I could find was the exact address:

P.O. Box 1200

3260 AE Oud Beijerland

Netherlands

(3260 AE is the Dutch zip code)

that same address is used by Collector Records

( Collector / Down South / White Label )

What kind of labels are those in terms of music?

[couw]

All I could find was the exact address:

P.O. Box 1200

3260 AE Oud Beijerland

Netherlands

(3260 AE is the Dutch zip code)

that same address is used by Collector Records

( Collector / Down South / White Label )

What kind of labels are those in terms of music?

I wouldn't tell you if I knew

... I would of course! I just checked the address and came up with more labels using it here. One of the few labels/conglomerates without web presence it seems.

[JSngry]

Obscurity heaped upon obscurity, it would seem...

[Adam]

A front for money laundering?