Who would find a little used record? So it was that Lance Royers, a pilot who owns a plane shop in Bowling Green, Kentucky, found an unknown musical treasure in the back of his shop when sorting out records. Understandably, the 78rpm record found in the pile was of interest to Lance and he came across a record shop in Nashville, Tennessee, that played "all sorts of rare records," including recordings of Nashville artists that he thought might be the earliest known recording of Martin Luther King Jr. The vinyl found in the record shop was marked "Rare Record Shop...

Carpentry work goes beyond hard and dirty labor to thoughtful, thorough analysis of how surfaces will best host the work. How deep will the shelves go? Will we build a floor to support a record player that needs a shelf of its own? Vintage electronics collectors build records, but can we build them to sustain them for the years to come? Or are those things destined to break and end up in a dumpster? The album is the sonic representation of time and memory. You wouldn’t buy a brand new record player with the intention of shredding vinyl, would you?...

Cheerfully remembering his childhood records collection, with shiny vinyl on the cover, Gram found the record store that would change his life: Record Bar, a sprawling vinyl emporium with enormous bins of records. A short wait later he found a long-awaited record he wanted to buy, a compilation of the jazz record label Blue Note. "Of course, I came home and found the record was pure vinyl vinyl with a vinyl record store across the street, so I could easily find a replacement record to go with the album I already had," Gram says. "And I bought the vinyl record."...