New Additions: She Don't Tell Secrets seven inch single by The Guise

Sometimes in the many hours of crate-digging at various record stores across town, stumbling upon one unknown record in a local bin opens up a rabbit hole of information. That's the case with, from what I've figured out so far, the only release by The Guise from 1983 on Doubletree Records that I found at Magnolia Thunderpussy a few months back. Turns out Doubletree was a second sub-label of Kingsmill Studio, which released nearly a hundred records on the main Blue Ash Records in the 1970s and 80s. The Guise also appeared on Volume 3 of the Q-FM Hometown Series with a song called "You Don't Have To Cry," a track similar to their power-pop style on this single.

Blue Ash Records and Kingsmill Recording Studio

Blue Ash Records was a Columbus based recording label that existed for about ten years, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s with about fifty releases. Digging up information on the label has been difficult, to say the least. Discogs says they were the in-house label of Kingsmill Recording Studio, which itself has little information available. There's an entry at 45rpmrecords, but with even less info. The usually reliable BuckeyeBeat.com has no info, and much of the search results on Google end up with Blue Ash, Ohio, the city outside Cincinnati.

So, if you're reading this, and have any info on Blue Ash Records and/or Kingsmill Recording Studio, feel free to reach out.