Hi

I have just to-day seen Jean Ward as she recovers from a hip replacement. It will be a little time before she is fully up and about but she is determined to make a few more appearances when her health permits. She also want's to try and produce a new album - something to look out for.

Jean was always very sorry that arguably her last and best LP "Stay Not late" was only available in small numbers, so if you have one it is a real treasure - look after it.

No new repress or CD release is likely as the master tape is damaged beyond repair, but through Jean I have permission from the rights holder (Bernard Wittey of Folksound records) to produce a small number of copies of the best vinyl records we could find.

Its wonderful what digital systems can now do these days but having tried several of the commercially available automatic systems to clean up the tracks, most dull the sound so much and especially Jeans voice the copies do not do justice to the tracks.

Work continues using a studio grade DAW to try and improve these tracks further, but it is very painstaking searching the greatly magnified wave forms and removing the unwanted artefacts, re listening to ensure the sound is a faithful as possible. This is proving both time consuming and mind numbing!

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of Stay Not Late, then please drop me an email to:-

Rightsound@aol.com

I Don't review this email address very often so it might take a month or so for me to reply, but you've waited this long so a little longer wont hurt will it?.

Kindest regards
John C.


Please note that Jeans collaborations with Mike and John Raven are not available through me.