Blog: The Vinyl District

TVD Back to the Old House

Throughout her life, my mom has been a wonderful pianist. Entirely self taught and without the ability to read music, she could listen to most pieces and in moments play it back for you almost verbatim. It's a skill she seemingly had to pick up as her father, a violinist and concert organizer, forestalled my mother's desire to study and participate in the classical ensembles he'd put together each weekend in the family's home in Newark, New Jersey. And my mother never got over it. I think she'd say her father's grand ego and perhaps chauvinism on some [...]
Link Text:The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday (Mp3)
File Name:Pleasant Valley Sunday.mp3
Bitrate:56 kbps
Artist:Bolshoi
Title:Happy Boy
Link Text:The Bolshoi - Happy Boy (Mp3)
File Name:01 Happy Boy.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1986
Artist:The Blow Monkeys
Title:The Bullet Train
Link Text:The Blow Monkeys - The Bullet Train (Mp3)
File Name:03 The Bullet Train.mp3
Bitrate:210 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:The Kinks
Title:catch me now i'm falling
Link Text:The Kinks - Catch Me Now I'm Falling (Mp3)
File Name:07 catch me now i\\'m falling.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:The Vapors
Title:News At Ten
Link Text:The Vapors - News At Ten (Mp3)
File Name:News At Ten.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1980
Location: Washington, DC