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Kevin Brunkhorst's avatar

Stunner post, Syd.

Joe Harley's avatar

Truth is spoken here.....

Charles Dirksen's avatar

::listening to The People Tree on a flight from ATL -> BOS right now, reminiscing about getting dust all over myself from digging in bins of vinyl in an ancient Used Records store:: THANK YOU, SIR!

Syd Schwartz's avatar

Thanks CD. I hope it lived up to your standards and expectations

Charles Dirksen's avatar

It was/is so fantastic I listened to the lengthy Deluxe edition and several tunes within it multiple times, it's awesome and I'm astonished that I was wholly ignorant about it until your post, frankly!

Fred Hill's avatar

Excellent post though didn’t read on first glance but should know by now. Since I do trust you now implicitly. So I’ll give ‘Memory Lane’ a listen - now I’m a huge Ronnie Lane fan so a better Lane ? Nah, maybe an equal Lane we’ll see. Certainly appreciate your continued reporting on fake music & fake fans and ‘likes’. I heard about it first from you & from Ted Gioia the Honest Broker. Such a mess and there’s only a few reviewers I really trust anymore. I also enjoyed your memories of crate digging. Now I wasn’t a crate digger but I worked in a Jazz Collector’s Store - Berigan’s in Oakland where we were seeing the diggers come in during the ‘Acid’ phase buying from the crates where we put the “worst” or dollar records. The store even became the model for the store in Michael Chabon’s novel ‘Telegraph Avenue’ though he changed the genre from Jazz to Hip Hop.Little did we know that some bit of one of those records could become a sample on a hit record. Anyway I’ll get back to you on ‘Memory Lane’

Fred Hill's avatar

Ok, ‘Memory Lane’ is great’ It’s been on regular rotation streaming in my car lately and I do like it a lot. Thanks