John Corbett, a music critic, producer and curator, writes about his long passion for vinyl and for the figure of the collector. The book looks at more than 200 rare or out-of-print LPs, some of the texts coming from his DownBeat column on records never released on CD. Other essays, part memoir and part criticism, cover today's vinyl boom, collector subcultures, and the making of the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, which Corbett says ended his own addiction to collecting. It carries 208 colour photographs.
A presentation, not a review: we haven't read this book yet.
