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Best Record You Have Ever heard
Artist: Al GreenAlbum: I'm Still in Love with YouRelease: London, Hi!Date: 1973Recording: Memphis - Hi Studios 
Charleston S.C. vinyl shop recommends
If you are able to get to Columbia, SC (about 100 miles from Charleston), there is maybe the best used vinyl and CD shop in the nation. I live in the metro Washington,DC area and whenever I visit my hometown, which is Columbia, I go by Papa Jazz. ... 
BB King...for a newbie
"I Don't Want Nobody Hanging Around My House When I'm Not at Home" and "The Thrill is Gone" are two of his signature tunes and my Favorites. Try to at least have these two in your collection in any form. 
Most achingly-beautiful music
and Kool and the Gang have musical compositions /performances that I have found to be achingly beautiful. The Coltrane/Ellington rendering of "Sentimental Mood" is about as beautiful and piercing as it gets. Grover Washington, Jr. performance of "... 
Carmen Sings Monk
I have acopy of that album on LP. My TT has been in disrepair for a few years so I haven't played it in a long time. It's a beautiful album. Interestingly, I believe that it used a digital master. However I always found the sonics to be very good.... 
New Maggie 3.6 OR 10 yr old Sound lab A-1 s
I got the chance to listen to the Soundlab Millenium 1 and the Soundlab Dynastat (a hybrid). They were driven by very expensive equipment. They sounded quite good indeed. At low volume you do get more detail with the Soundlabs versus the Maggie. H...