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Random Record Pick: Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Climbin’ Up

Vinyl record of Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Climbin' Up.For more photos, connect to @afrancisb on Instagram.

Random Record Pick is a way to organize and archive an always-growing collection of vinyl records. Each record is randomly picked from a shelf or crate or dusty corner of my house, a photo is taken of the cover, and then the entire record is played all the way through, even if it’s terrible. 

Random Record Pick: Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry, Brownie & Sonny

Vinyl record of Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry, Brownie & Sonny.
For more photos, connect to @afrancisb on Instagram.

Random Record Pick is a way to organize and archive an always-growing collection of vinyl records. Each record is randomly picked from a shelf or crate or dusty corner of my house, a photo is taken of the cover, and then the entire record is played all the way through, even if it’s terrible. 

It’s So Hard Knowing

Well, here’s the new song, It’s So Hard Knowing, for this first week of the new year. Right at the end of the week too.

I had the first part of this song, the first part of the first verse, written back at the beginning of December. And…just let it sit around. Knew I liked it. Knew it worked somehow. Knew it was for something.

I’m glad I didn’t forget it cause I think this one works fairly well.

It’s about…well…I’m not totally sure what it’s about. It took me all day to write. Working. Writing. Taking a break. Returning. Leaving. Back again. I guess it’s pretty obvious what it’s about. Like, maybe…don’t assume anything about anything. But maybe not. I don’t know.

Maybe it’ll mean something to you.

Anyway, that’s that. I’ve got a few live performances churning for the coming months, so stay tuned for those, and all the songs each week.