20 Years ago when Chad Kassem started Acoustic Sounds, the collectible LP market consisted mostly of pre-owned product. As modern-day audiophilia progressed, reissue labels went a long way towards diminishing the preowned market – at least as far as mail order was concerned. Acoustic Sounds grew to become... ...[more]

Henry Townsend, the legendary bluesman from St. Louis, died Sunday, September 24 near Grafton, Wisconsin, where he helped to shape history on the famed Paramount Records label 75 years prior. He was 96.

Townsend died of pulmonary edema in a hospital just south of Grafton, where... ...[more]

Roger Greene listened mostly at 33 1/3 RPM, but he lived at 78. The 35-year veteran of the Hi-Fi business died Wednesday, March 1 at his home in Duluth, Minnesota. He had battled Leukemia since September 2004. Roger would have been 54 March 13.

Roger worked at... ...[more]

Unlike any festival you've ever attended, the Blues Masters shows are held in a nearly 100-year-old church-turned-recording studio with intimacy, ambiance and acoustics second to none. The sanctuary was built and designed before microphones or amplifiers, so you can just imagine the sound! Blue Heaven seats just 450... ...[more]

"I've never come out to the front to do my thing. I'm just doing mine now. I don't want to be no rich guy. I just want to live comfortable. That's all. And to love people and to have people to love you."

Harry Hypolite, the natural-born... ...[more]