Laura Jean Anderson,
The TVD First Date

“I am amazed at the heaviness I still feel about vinyl and the difference it has on my entire listening experience for either hearing a new record for the first time or hearing a classic record for the thousandth time. Vinyl brings along a hands-on experience, commitment, work, a ritual—things I truly value in life and in making music. That same feeling I felt as a kid, I do today, and I know I will for the rest of my life. There’s a timelessness to vinyl.”

“When I was young, my family would play classic records and I remember how special it felt when they let me be the one to put the needle on the record. It amazed me how it all worked! How the needle made the music play! I would stare at it for hours.

Vinyl was starting to phase out when I was about 7 years old. My father was a huge record collector—he had crates of old classic Beatles records, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, etc. At a garage sale, he sold all of his vinyl for 25 cents a piece thinking that there was going to be no use for it anymore. I remember it so vividly in my mind yet I was too young to appreciate vinyl at that time. That day goes down in history with my family. We always talk about what it would be like if that didn’t happen and wish we could take it back. I can only hope that the tradition of listening to vinyl got passed on to another family.

There’s something about the commitment to listening to a record on vinyl that you don’t see in the digital/CD/tape world. I love that about it. Even putting on a record before you go to bed-—you always have to finish it before you sleep or the sound of the record player will be going all night. It’s harder to make vinyl background music the way you can with digital or a repeating CD. I realized how blessed I am to have a record collection in this day and age.

As modest as it is, I value every one of my records—all have meaning and memories. From my copy of Ma Rainy’s Blame it On the Blues to Music from Big Pink, Aretha’s I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You to Jelly Roll Morton’s The Saga of Mister Jelly Lord, to Rumours and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, etc., all have been well-loved and well-played, exuding nostalgia from specific memories attached to each vinyl record.”
Laura Jean Anderson

Laura Jean Anderson’s debut EP, “Righteous Girl” arrives in stores on March 4.

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