Here's an article from the New York Times covering the resurgence of vinyl in the last few years. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/fashion/31vinyl.html.

Country singer Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash at the height of her career. Over 25,000 people attended the singer's funeral.

Buddy Holly in Concert...

Here's a little bonus... Enjoy!

Related to the never-ending debate over the quality of music on vinyl vs. compact disc, research done by a Canadian scientist reports that "teens who used to view CDs as superior to older vinyl records now consider vinyl superior to the newer format." The rest of the article can be read here, and if that's not enough, comments and discussion on the report  are available here.

The Spring 2006 Austin Record Convention was held last weekend. The University Star has a recap in an article titled Tables turned on record collecting at Austin Record Convention. There was also early coverage from Kilgore News Herald and News 8 Austin.

Here's some (five to be exact) interesting record collecting related articles that I've come across in the last few weeks.

• Every record collection has its roots in a moment of complicated joy. We hear a song, and it makes us happy. We want to hear it again; we want to feel the same feeling as the first time we heard it. The easy solution is to acquire a copy of the song, so we can bring back that feeling or something like that feeling whenever we want. (The feeling is never exactly the same. Sometimes it degrades, at one rate or another, over time and repeated experience. But sometimes it stays very similar.) Read the full article from Seattle Weekly.

Here are a some articles that I've recently come across involving record collecting.

1) The News Journal interviews Michael Ace, host of WVUD's "Cruisin' America," in a story called "Passion spins at 45 rpm: The soundtrack of his youth thrums a steady backbeat to Newark collector's life."

2) In an interview published back in December, Asbury Park Press talks with Garry Tallent of the E Street Band about his record collecting history and a few of his prized possessions. "I set out a long time ago to try to collect all five Buddy Holly Deccas and all five Elvis Suns. 45s. I like 78s, but they just are so breakable. I had four of 'em for the longest time and getting that last one was just hard to find." The full story is still available online here.

3) From The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington, "Music collection connection" covers a local record collectors convention.