STEPPING OUT
RECORDS
Independent label: Red Shoes were
once a four piece folk rock band from Birmingham comprising of husband and wife
Carolyn Evans Vocals and guitar and Mark Evans vocals and guitar, Derek Eynon
bass and vocals, and on drums John Bate, then Mark “Wombat” Mullen, then the
great Nick Millward (now a Jazzman for Kenny Ball) and latterly Bert Priest.
Great original songs, well chosen covers, lush three and four part harmonies and
a thunderous rhythm section forged a band that was a mainstay of Birmingham’s
live music scene, between 1983 and 1989. Managed by Dreamstar at one point, then
Paul Flower, many A&R doors opened, and a stream of recordings were made,
for radio sessions and beta testing of studios. Howie Klein then ran KUSF radio
station in San Francisco, and brought to the American airwaves the band’s
own-label first single “All Fall Down” in 1985. Howie was later to become the
president of Reprise. The band collaborated with Clive Gregson, who produced
some tracks, and contributed a monumental guitar solo to the band’s “Jumper Of
Love” released on the flipside of the aforementioned single. Distributed By
Stepping Out Records.
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