[johnfowles]

I awoke this morning to a news item on New York's News Station 1010 WINS that today is Record Store Day.

I later read on
http://www.digitalspy.com/music/feat...oBTa6jQ0gNWF1Q
"For the past seven years, Record Store Day has provided a celebration not only of the classic format, but of record shops and the institution of record buying as a whole. Taking place across the country, the annual festival comprises special in stores, events and, at the heart of it all, a host of limited edition pressings, rarities and re-issues available to buy"

and

"the 'vinyl revival' has increasingly gathered pace for those wanting their music on something a little more tangible than invisible computer files. Vinyl sales rose by 15% in 2012 and even further in 2013, while independent record shop sales rose by 44% last year too"

"record" is of course irrevocably linked in my mind with poring through racks of 12 inch vinyl albums


and I was immediately reminded of the fact that Sundown has just been reissued on heavier vinyl and that Char had been crowing about her copy, and drifted back to sleep with the cogent thought that Sundown whilst being Gord's major album seller was surely already adequately pandered to audiophiles by the previous MFSL half speed audiophile version

see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Fidelity_Sound_Lab
and that it was a shame that the opportunity had not been taken to instead produce vinyl versions of one or all of the three CD only albums (WFY, APPT and Harmony)
The next thing I knew was that Susan and I were in a local record store
(I have no idea where as even our local specialist CD Store in the Route 22 Mall in Union NJ closed some years ago!)
but the owners had gone to a lot of trouble to promote LPs
there were several small listening booths comprising 5 foot high 12 inch square columns containing a turntable and a sort of listening hatch and a single large 6 or 7 foot square table "cabinet" holding vinyl albums I walked around it and found a 3 foot square section marked Gordon Lightfoot holding a load of his records amongst which were a batch of about ten unfamiliar plainish white albums with blue text
I examined one there was no album title or photo of Gord and the text on both sides seemed to be merely a list of song titles, much like as shown in Char's scan of the inner liner of her new record.
It is a fact that ever since Don Quixote my grasp of each album's song content has been tenuous and incomplete so I was surprised by several of the song titles and unable to identify which album it was supposed to be (it did not contain Endless Wire so obviously was not that album) but six or seven of the song titles were new to me and did not include Magic Minstrel Show.
I took it over to Susan who spotted that on one side it said "Special Compilation"
After I woke up I was most disappointed to find that clear as the dream had been I was unable to recall any of the new song titles, sorry 'bout that.
Whatever I really must get on and try to finalise my "rarities" CD see the thread at
http://corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=26108
I am though going to rename it "Album 21 Extra Rare"