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Last year my father was going to throw out his and my mother's LPs. I quickly offered to take them. He had well over 1000 of them. Even though they aren't terribly valuable I really enjoyed going through them all and the memories they invoked were priceless. I purchased a mid sixties Dual turntable and have been listening to them all in my free time.

The other day I was vacuuming and decided to play my mother's Janis Joplin records. I remembered many a Sunday morning when Janis or Areatha hit the turntable it was my cue to disappear because house work was soon to follow. Cancer took her from us twenty years ago. She was 52. I am that age now and still miss her more than I can say. However, whenever I hear Janis sing Ball and Chain or Aretha sing Day Dreaming on one of those old LPs my mother's presence fills the room. I imagine that one day Miles Davis' Bitches Brew will have the same effect on me. It's an oddly emotional experience that for some reason I only get from vinyl.