I buy records. I don’t seek out particular titles or pay more than a buck or two per LP; I go to estate sales and flea markets and dig and dig and dig for stuff that i have not heard yet (or not heard in years). I pick up a few hundred per year. It gets more difficult (but also more rewarding) with each passing year to find music that i have not heard. I generally look for rock and soul recorded between 1965 and 1975.
I like this way of experiencing new music because there is a bit of a folk-music quality to it. As in: whether I like it or not, I am limited to listening to music that other people in my community were listening to some time ago. It’s all music that shaped the hearts and minds of people who drove these same streets, lived in these same houses, played in the bars of my town many years ago. Anyhow, of the 800 LPs that i buy each year, 60 will have a track that I like.
Those 60 end up on these seasonal compilations. Tracks gets transferred from LP through a Proton preamp and into Protools for trimmin.’ I use a Benz MC20E2 cartridge, which I highly recommend if yr in the market for a new cartridge.
Here’s the list for this season. Link through for the details…
Cochise “Home Again”
Alive and Kicking “Tighter, Tighter”
Fairport Convention “Meet on the ledge”
Mark-Almond “Speak Easy It’s a Whisky Scene”
Dave Mason “We just disagree”
Mel and Tim “Starting all over again”
Jay and the Americans “Since I don’t have you”
Marvin Gaye “Troubleman”
Bobby Whitlock “Song for Paula”
Flaming Ember “Westbound #9”
Sandy Denny “It’ll Take A Long Time”
Macondo “Never thought I’d See You Go”
David Lannan “Morning”
Otis Clay “A House Ain’t a Home”
Steve Marcus “Tomorrow Never Knows”
Tufano-Giammarese “I’m a Loser”
Kevin John Agosti “Lighthouse Madness”
Jerry Jeff Walker “LA Freeway”
Al Green “Together again”
Gene Clark “1975”