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Music connoisseurs call it London’s ultimate record collector’s paradise, and, to many local music-addicts, it is like a second home where they can unashamedly share in their love of music with the family of experts behind the counter. Honest Jon’s originally opened in 1974 on Golborne Road in London’s Ladbroke Grove, moving around the corner five years later onto the famous Portobello Road, where it has built up a reputation over the years as a stomping ground for record collectors, music lovers, producers, and musicians from all around the world. The Clash caught the reggae and dub virus at Honest Jon’s. James Lavelle, founder of the legendary record label Mo’Wax, used to work here as a clerk before he rose to notoriety. Damon Albarn, singer from Blur, and co-creator of eclectic pop project Gorillaz, has long been a regular at Honest Jon’s too, but not only as a customer. Together with storeowners Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, Albarn has been involved with Honest Jon’s record label since 2001. The label is a kind of musical mirror of all those sounds that have always been available at the shop. In a “blinkers-off” approach, their release list covers lost Reggae, old and new Afro, variations of Jazz, Calypso, and Folk that have long been forgotten by popular culture, as well as contemporary Folk, dance, and the new electronic avant-garde. Moreover, every release is more than just your typical music product. Elaborately illustrated booklets and brilliantly researched liner notes provide information reaching far beyond the music and give substantial information about the various musical cultures all around the world. Obscure recordings from the dawn of the gramophone era more than a hundred years ago, alongside illustrious veterans like Cedric Brooks, Candi Staton and Lord Kitchener, and contemporary artists like Actress, the Hypnotic Brass Band, T++, and Morphosis are a testament to the fact that Honest Jon’s understanding of sound has more than one focus. For Carhartt Radio, Honest Jon’s co-owner Alan Scholefield selected some music from this profuse catalogue, which staffer Budgie then mixed into a special multidimensional narrative, in which every track tells a story of its own, spanning a time period from the fifties to the present. To take a look behind the scenes of one of London’s oldest record stores, and its internationally celebrated music label, we talk to Alan Scholefield and Mark Ainley about their first days at Honest Jon’s, some funny stories while digging for records, and more.
www.carhartt-wip.com
www.icrates.org
NORMAN JAY HONEST JONES
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www.gq-magazine.co.uk
See the interview here: http://www.carhartt-wip.com/music/music/2013/07/artist-feature-honest-jons
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