Music: February 2019 Archives

Digitizing My Life: Five Vinyl Album Takeaways - The Fire Ant Gazette - A Texas Hill Country Blog

Eric Siegmund has a USB turntable recommendation, and some lessons learned in the course of digitizing his collection, including the rediscovery of some long-forgotten and best-forgotten purchases:

"The oldest album in the collection was a 1964 release entitled Draggin' and Surfin' with classic songs like Little Surfer Girl and Wipeout. Sadly, I had forgotten that instead of featuring the original groups like the Beach Boys and Surfaris, the LP was recorded by a studio band called The Jalopy Five. The cuts didn't make the cut."