...still the best plunderers of the Beeb's vaults...
    (Michael Heatley, Record Buyer and Music Collector magazine)

DON WILLIAMS Volume One / Volume Two [Release date 30.01.12] HUX128 (2 on 1 CD)

Don Williams is one of the most original and gifted talents in the annals of American country music. During the 1970s, throughout the 1980s, and into the early 1990s, Williams had one of the longest hit streaks ever in country music, including 17 No.1s, and 28 others in the top 10.

For over twenty years, Don Williams was a near fixture on the American country charts, with such songs as You're My Best Friend, Some Broken Hearts Never Mend, Tulsa Time, Good Ole Boys Like Me and the pop-crossover I Believe In You.

But the real starting point of the Don Williams legend was the creation of these two solo albums in 1972-1973.

Now digitally remastered, these two LPs are reissued here on one CD. The accompanying 12 page booklet includes photos, extensive liner notes and full lyrics to every featured track.

It is Williams' ability to write, perform and record songs which have a universal appeal that has made him such a true international star. And in 2010 he was deservedly inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Several of today's Nashville newcomers, such as Josh Turner, Brad Paisley, and Alan Jackson, have all cited Don Williams as being a big influence on their own music.

Tracklisting: 1. Come Early Morning 2. Too Late To Turn Back Now 3. Endless Sleep
4. Shelter Of Your Eyes 5. I Recall A Gypsy Woman 6. No Use Running 7. How Much Time Does It Take 8. My Woman's Love 9. Don't You Believe 10. Amanda 11. Wish I Was In Nashville 12. Your Sweet Love 13. She's In Love With A Rodeo Man 14. Atta Way To Go 15. We Should Be Together 16. Loving You So Long Now 17. Oh Misery 18. Miller's Cave 19. I Don't Think About Her No More 20. Down The Road I Go

This classic slice of psychedelic folk-rock was Dr Strangely Strange’s second album, produced by Joe Boyd and originally released in September 1970.

Now digitally re-mastered from the original stereo production tapes, this great album has now been bolstered by the addition of seven live and studio bonus tracks.

This album, which boasts Roger Dean cover artwork, features one of the first recorded appearances of guitarist Gary Moore (aged 19 at the time).

Record Collector magazine recently nominated this as one of the most collectable progressive rock albums of all time.

This reissue is packaged in a full colour digipack with a 36 page booklet and includes exhaustive liner notes and lots of rare photographs and ephemera. The booklet also includes full lyrics and interviews with the band.

Dr Strangely Strange will be playing at the Jazz Café in London to launch the release of this CD at the end of October.

Sunday Times 'Culture' must-have reissue" 13.11.11

"...a compelling hybrid of fragile folk forms and more muscular rock moves"

WEBB PIERCE Fallen Angel / Cross Country 2on1 CD
Release date: 27th June 2011 (HUX126)

Webb Pierce was one of the most popular honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, racking up more number 1 hits than similar artists like Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell and Ernest Tubb.

In the early '50s, every single he released hit the Top 10, with a total of ten reaching the number 1 spot. In fact, Webb's career stands as one of the most successful in the history of country music.

Now reissued on CD for the first time, these two LPs were originally released in the early 1960s, when Pierce was a potent chart force in country music. Included here is 'Drifting Texas Sands', which Bob Dylan selected for the 'Texas' theme of his radio show.

The accompanying booklet includes photographs, liner notes and full lyrics to every featured track.

KITTY WELLS Country Hit Parade/ Winner Of Your Heart 2on1 CD
Release date: 27th June 2011(HUX125)

Kitty Wells broke down the doors for female country singers, paving the way for artists like Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. After a string of hits from the 1950s to the early 1970s, earning her the title 'Queen of Country Music', Kitty Wells was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974. She later won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award, in 1991.

This '2on1' compilation combines Kitty's first two Decca LPs, originally released in 1956 & 1957 and now reissued on CD together for the first time. Featured here are eight top 10 country hit singles, including the classic, 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels'.

The accompanying booklet includes photographs, liner notes and full lyrics to every
featured track.

This timely reissue coincides with the release of Laura Cantrell's new album of Kitty Wells cover versions, 'Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music'.

THE SLITS The John Peel Sessions
Release date: 18 April (HUX123)

The Slits formed in 1976, when 14-year-old Ari Up recruited her friends Tessa, Viv and Palmolive to form a new all-girl punk band, with Ari on vocals.

The following year, they supported The Clash during their UK tour.

Still without a record contract, the Slits then recorded two sessions for John Peel, in 1977 and 1978. Later, after their period with Island Records, they recorded one final Peel session in 1981.

The Slits' BBC sessions have long been celebrated as favourites of John Peel's, and it is easy to hear why. In fact, the band's debut session was always hailed by Peel as "one of our first classic sessions".

These first two sessions explode with vibrant punk energy, aggression and wit. The third session, recorded just months before the band split, also pulsates with colour and life, but points clearly to the direction in which they were heading and the areas they were exploring - dub, funk, free improvisation, African music and hip-hop.

Last year, just a few months before her sad passing, Ari Up granted approval to Hux for the release of the complete Peel session recordings.

This compilation includes all three sessions, plus one previously unreleased bonus track, recorded by the band on a reunion tour in 2006.

This limited edition digipack has a 16 page booklet featuring extensive liner notes and photos.

As one of the great British live groups of the hippy era, Quintessence was the very first band to play at the very first Glastonbury Festival in 1970.

Incredibly, 40 years after that Glastonbury debut, a reborn version of Quintessence was invited back to the festival by event organiser, Michael Eavis.

Fronted for this one night only by original vocalist Shiva Jones, original guitarist Maha Dev’s Quintessence reforge with added horsepower the sound of the British underground.

Mixed from digital multi-track by their legendary Island-era producer John Barham, here are the highlights of that performance along with new studio pieces.

Rebirth is an album to sit proudly alongside their trilogy of 1969-71 Island Records releases.

The 16 page full colour booklet includes extensive liner notes along with reminiscences from Shiva Jones, Maha Dev and John Barham.

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 SHIVA'S QUINTESSENCE Only Love Can Save Us
Release date: 28 March 2011 (HUX121)


Shiva Jones was the iconic vocalist with Island Records' supergroup Quintessence during their mercurial 1969-72 reign.

Although periodically active in new musical ventures in both Australia and the US during subsequent decades, he made no commercially released recordings and had left the Quintessence repertoire frozen in time.

Then, 35 years later, Shiva recruited some of his favourite musicians, including original Quintessence guitarist Maha Dev and Swiss keyboard wizard Rudra Beauvert, to collaborate on a series of remarkably fresh studio recordings featuring old Quintessence favourites along with some wholly new material.

Here, remastered from the original mixes, and with a track listing personally selected by Shiva, is the very best of these recordings.

The accompanying booklet includes liner notes by Shiva Jones and Rudra Beauvert.

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