Nov232009
Audiobooks on … vinyl?
Filed under General by david brooks at 9:23 am
I was in Boston this weekend, and on Sunday morning attended the Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues. I wasn’t expecting much, but it was fabulous, with a Boston-area trio of women called “Test-a-Mony” who are everything an R&B/gospel trio should be - lots of personality, lots of energy, and all three can sing like nobody’s business. The backing band was incredibly tight and reasonably young, too, which is nice, because the blues/R&B business is fading away into a sea of old folks.
As long as we’re talking about traditional audio stuff, take note that the ever-quirky David Sedaris has released his latest audiobook on vinyl. (NY Times item here.) This is so weird a move that I figure it’s done for publicity alone - and hey, it worked!
I have recorded virtually all of my few-hundred LPs into digital, complete with pops and hisses because it’s too much of a pain to clean them up. As a result, I have listened to that music more than I have since early post-college days, when having a record playing at virtually all times was a requirement for daily life.
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