The Music is You
&
Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)

So I thought long and hard about what LP to choose from my collection to put up here for the first Monday LP. I wanted it to be special and memorable. While I did think very seriously about it for the past week, I knew pretty early it was going to be a John Denver album though.

An Evening with John Denver (1975), John Denver’s first live album recorded in University City, California. Denver was at the height of his musical career in the 70s. While often heavily criticized by music critics for being a lightweight, his music is still fairly popular all across the world. One of my favorite quotes from him came from a interview with Rolling Stone Magazine:

“All right, I’m not Bob Dylan. I don’t write songs like that. But I think 25 years from now people will be singing my songs even if they don’t remember who wrote them. Can you remember that Duke Ellington wrote ‘Mood Indigo’?”

So why is this album important to me. Well, this is the vinyl I remember be told at a very young age how to use a record player. I remember slowly lowering the needle to hear this beginning quite vividly. My surprise at being told I could flip the record over and hear something different was only surpassed by me discovering there was a second LP in its case (since it was a four-sided album). So yeah, lots of memories with this one. That actual vinyl I listened to is still back at my parents’ home, but this is just another copy I bought for myself somewhere along the line.