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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason.

Billy Gibbons

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
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Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
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Blues Country Embracing English Great
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
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Lying People White
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.
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Country Night Promoted Spring Well
We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
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Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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Art Believe Coffee
It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Hurt Records Water
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
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Film Matter Mirrors
No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won’t vanish, but let’s face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
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Media Past Seemingly Way

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason.

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