Chris, I never left my country roots either.
Just finally branched out from them. Sounds like we could have been sisters.
As for record players... I have 2, one my mother is keeping for me and one on my old stereo system in the garage. We haven't gotten it hooked up yet here, but in LR we had it hooked up to the computer so that I could transfer the record to the computer, and from there to CD. Not as good of quality as a CD would be normally, but you get the full effect that you were used to hearing on the song, with all the record's hiss's and static. Then I got smart and hit some of the Napster take-offs out there. Found a lot of my songs that I have on album floating around out there (can you say almost every one of CW McCall's songs?!) and downloaded them for my enjoyment once again. Instead of me transferring it from record to computer, someone else did it for me. Man I love the internet!
CountriGal
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