THE CUSTOMS—“Let’s Get It On”/“Bring My Cadillac Back” (Shake It!); LINDA & GLINDA CONOVER—“You’re Gonna Miss Me”/“I Wanna Get Happy” (Fraternity):: Cincinnati was a hot town for R&B and rockabilly back in the days when King and the other local labels were flourishing, and every now and then the old fire breaks thru the placid surface of the Queen City. The Customs,, featuring Peter Greenberg (once of DMZ) on guitar, have already broke up, but you outlanders don’t need to know that, and the band’s left us a cool femembrance anyway, in their 45, a pair of spirited covers of first-generation rockabilly tunes. Glinda and Linda Conover are a biowriter’s dream: identically tiny blonde twin sisters who clean the table when they play pool as a team, and who write and record pro C&W discs in their spare time. The Conovers’“You’re Gonna Miss Me” is not the 13th Floor Elevators’ classic, but you may find it just as interesting, in its country-backwaters twists. The Customs’ 45 is $2 postpaid from Shake It! Records, 2530 Luna Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219; check with your usual country outlets for the Linda & Glinda single. R.R.

HORACE SILVER—Sterling Silver (Blue Note):: Pianist Silver has always been a fiercely original jazz stylist with a good-humored bluesy approach that makes his preferred hard bop context* more accessible than most—almost everybody can dig the blues. This collection of previously unissued stuff (plus three cuts originally issued on 45’s) from ’56-’64 delineates late Blue Note hip elegance and Silver’s disarming mixture of restraint and soul. Classy.