{"id":32693,"date":"2024-05-07T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32693"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:08:00","slug":"good-album-hunting-saturday-may-4-2024-wedding-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/good-album-hunting-saturday-may-4-2024-wedding-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, Saturday, May 4, 2024: Wedding Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, as I mentioned<\/a>, I went to a small town in southeast Missouri to attend my brother’s wedding.<\/p>\n

As it was the first time that I’d seen him in quite a while, we exchanged Christmas presents for 2023, and he had a couple of milk crates with records in them. He said they were from our mother, but I thought that I had gotten all of her records already. When I started dusting them off and going through them, it became clear that most of the records came from someone else. <\/p>\n

I mean, certainly some of them bear the sale tags with a G on them that indicated she’d placed them in the garage sales of the early century, but, again, most of them did not have it, and they were a mixed lot of old\/small label gospel (the kind I thought I’d never own), 80s pop, and folk. I wonder if they were just other records that other people had put into the yard sale that were still in my mother’s garage when she passed away or perhaps they were records my aunt picked up before she passed away–given that they included some photos and art with a note written in our family friend Gloria’s hand, it could be any of the above.<\/p>\n

So I dusted them off and here’s what the stack included:<\/p>\n

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