This Week at Quinn Records
Wednesday Deal Spotlight: Oliver Johnson's "Hard Times"
Oliver Johnson's 2005 blues album Hard Times (QR051131-1) now leads this week's Wednesday Deal. It sits alongside the gospel best seller Songs We'll Never Forget by The Masonic Quintet of Waukegan, Illinois. The deal runs every Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Central: take 30% off with code WED CODE30 at checkout. Shop the Wednesday Deal →
The New Shop Music Store Is Open
Our Shop Music page has a new look. It has 28 releases on CD, cassette, vinyl and video, and you can browse by genre, by artist, or by song and album title. Each title now shows whether it's in stock and how many copies are left. Several CDs, including Choice Cut, Songs We'll Never Forget and Giving You The Blues, are down to their last copy.
Shop Music →
"The Same Thing" Is Coming to CD in October
Gene "Poo-Poo Man" Anderson's album The Same Thing is still in heavy rotation on QRTM Radio. The CD edition is now set for October 2026. Until then, get the digital album for $5.94, or single tracks for $0.99.
Buy the digital album →
Boogie Gear Store, Remixed
The Boogie Gear Store now looks and works like a full online outfitter. You can shop by category (Hats & Caps, T-Shirts & Tops, Bags, Drinkware, Footwear and Hoodies), search for items, filter by price, and sort. The Signature Brand pieces are listed first: The Cruise Master Bucket Hat ($25.46) and the Quinn Records TM Tee ($22.00). Boogie Gear orders over $189 ship free. Shop Boogie Gear →
New on QRTM Radio: What's Playing Right Now
The QRTM Radio page now shows what's on air and what's coming up next. Sunday mornings start with the Sunday Gospel Hour, with hymns, quartet gospel and testimony music. Next comes Jim EG The Cruise Master's Burn Blues Burn Revue, with Delta, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago blues. Soul Kitchen, with deep soul and classic R&B, follows at noon.
Listen Live →
Catch Oliver Johnson Live in St. Louis
Oliver Johnson plays live every Thursday and Friday night, 9:00 PM to midnight, at The Hide Away, 5900 Arsenal Street, St. Louis, MO 63139. He plays soul, R&B, pop and jazz. Hear the records, then go hear the man. Event Calendar →
Featured Story
Hard Times Never Sounded So Good: Oliver Johnson's 2005 Blues Album Returns to the Spotlight
BY DAVE WILSON
Some records don't age. They just wait for the right Wednesday.
Oliver Johnson's Hard Times is a 2005 blues album from the Quinn Records TM catalog. This week it's front and center as the label's Wednesday Deal. It's the kind of record the label was built on: honest blues about real life, cut in St. Louis by a musician who has spent decades on bandstands across the city. Oliver Johnson is best known as the man who brought the trumpet to the soul. On Hard Times he goes straight to the blues, and he means every note.
2005 was a big year for Oliver at Quinn Records TM. It also brought Come Thunder Come Lightning, the jazz sides Reminiscence of This Magic Moment and On The Other Side of Midnight, Day Dreaming Again, and the holiday record Christmas Must Be Love. Of all of them, Hard Times is the one to start with.
You don't just have to take the record's word for it. Oliver is still working, live every Thursday and Friday night at The Hide Away on Arsenal Street. This year he also returned with Nite Train on the new release Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right. Few artists on the label connect the catalog to the present so directly.
Release details
Artist: Oliver Johnson
Title: Hard Times (CD, Blues, 2005)
Catalog No.: QR051131-1
UPC: 614357362133
Price: $15.98 list, 30% off with code WED CODE30 at checkout on Wednesdays, 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Central.
Free shipping on CD, cassette and vinyl orders of $89.99 and up.
Frequently bought together: On The Otherside Of Midnight (CD, $15.98).
Buy Hard Times on the Wednesday Deal →
Listen on QRTM Radio →
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