For the record

Sam made an album called Sam Chatmon and His Barbecue Boys that has been out of print for at least twenty years. I've been on the lookout for it for at least ten of those years. A couple of weeks ago I found the album in England. I immediately bought if for five pounds with five pounds for shipping. It arrived in a little over a week and I was so excited.

I opened the package at looked at the album and then realized I didn't have a record player and hadn't played a record in at least fifteen years. I showed the album to my daughter and she was amazed. It was so large and had etchings on both sides. I told her how it worked, putting a needle down on the record and the needle transmitting the vibrations to an amplifier and she looked confused. "You mean the needle actually sat on the record? Didn't that wear it out? Sounds pretty dumb to me."

I told her how the album art was so much better because it was bigger but it didn't seem to impress her. Now I have to find someone with a turntable that I can visit and play the album. Plus I can record the music and convert it to CD. It is so odd holding the album, technology has come and changed things so much. It sometimes takes something like this for me to notice.