Got a few records for Christmas.
Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early - Takes One To Know One
Jelly Roll Kings - Off Yonder Wall
Asie Payton - Worried
Fat Possum for Christmas is awesome. The one I was really looking forward to was Elmo & Hezekiah, but the best one turned out to be Asie Payton. I'm not sure exactly how I went this long without getting into him, but I'm happy I could get it corrected. Plus, free sticker and a button. And my mom decided she wasn't going to keep them for herself. Yeah!
New Year's Eve I decided to do a thrift store run-through. It had been probably over a month since I'd gone to any thrift store, which is pretty much an eternity for me. And I was rewarded pretty well. Got a few Queen records in very good condition, a few Elton John records, the second Terry Reid, and a few others that are inessential but good to have, like a couple Wings albums and Lou Reed's Transformer, things like that. At one place I found a copy of Them's second album. It's not in great shape, but it's a pretty unusual find for a thrift store. It would be a good find in a record store, so there was no way I was leaving it there. And I also found Yessongs. I was excited about that, however, I wouldn't call my search for Yessongs over. The cover on this one is terribly water-damaged, though the vinyl looks to be in okay playable shape. It'll be better once I dust it off. I'll still be keeping my eyes open for it, but this copy will tide me over until I can find one in better shape and including the booklet.
Then, fun news to go along with this, with the additions of the thrift store run to my spreadsheet I have exceeded 1000 albums. In actuality I did that a while ago because, almost two years since I started the spreadsheet, I still haven't entered my classical albums into it. So, that only took 13 or 14 years. Let's make it 2000 by 33.
