Ramona's Excellent Goodwill Find

She found a Canon Rebel 2000, with a 28-80 lens. You always have to be wary of cameras from thrift stores, but after I looked over it as best I could, she decided to take a chance on it, hoping it would work.

After picking up some costly CR2s for it, it worked! So now we have two Rebel film bodies in our camera family. :)

Fat Cats: Record store number two in Boone!

Fat Cats was the store we were originally trying to get to in Boone. This store was a little weird, a little crazy, and all cool. Big wall with record crates on the left side, and video rentals on the right of the store. Chatted for a good long while with a cool shopkeep in here, he suggested a great Thai place that we went to after.

Ramona: "This has Superstition on it. Enough said. Also, it has the braille inside."  

Ramona: "60s band, famous for Knock Three Times, and famous for from the movie Now and Then. Kind of like Ohio Express, very sing-along sixties style."

Ramona: "Never heard of this dude. On Vanguard, looks like early Baez and Dylan, one of those folk singers, dirty hippy in wingtips types. Should be interesting!"

Ramona: "Ike and Tina Turner Live at Carnegie Hall. Tri-fold, double LP, with lots of pictures of the happy couple, including one of Ike with machine gun bullets on a belt around his scrawny torso. Hopefully it has a lot of raw, live singing from Tina. Has Proud Mary, and Piece of My Heart."

Mr. Empty: "Picked this record up because I'm descended from Stonewall Jackson on my father's side, and I thought this guy might be related to me. Turns out that's a stage name, so, bummer. Anyway, Ramona tells me this is a rare record. It better be good or I'll just be disappointed all around."

Mr. Empty: "Found this record once in Fat Cat's for like $10, which isn't terrible but it's a little more than I usually am in the mood to pay for a Herb Alpert album that isn't Whipped Cream. So I put it back, and then when I went to their discount, "3 for $5" crates, I found it and got it for a lot cheaper. I haven't listened to this particular record but everything he did with Tijuana Brass is really great jam music."

Mr. Empty: "Classic BOC, not in the best condition, but I got it for nice and cheap, so I don't mind. "

Mr. Empty: "A later Carly Simon record, she started to get a little ragged with the hair but that's okay. I still dig it. :P"

Mr. Empty: "This is a Little Red Riding Hood record. Look at that scary-ass wolf! So many teeth!"

641 RPM: Our first record store in Boone!

This was the first store we found in Boone, we actually ran into it a little bit by accident, we were looking for another record store and saw this one first. We parked and ran up, the first thing we see is hand-made peppermint slipmats on a bunch of record players spinning in the front of the store. This was a good sign, and this store definitely had a chunk of good records for us. Not bad pricing either! We chatted with the shopkeep for a bit, he was cool.

Ramona digging in 641 RPM

Mr. Empty: "My Bonnie Prince Billy collection grows ever larger. This one is a split 7" between BPB and The Black Swans, and they're both doing covers of songs from Larry Jon Wilson, who recently passed on. I'm very excited to listen to it."

Ramona: "A promo copy of one of Melanie's first albums. Melanie was one of those folk singers from the 60s who were playing off Dylan's success, she had a hit in the 70s but she's extremely prolific. Saw her a couple years ago, too."

Ramona: "Just played a show with Jesse Colin Young a week ago, the frontman for this band. Sang a duet of their song "Get Together" with him. This doesn't have that track, but it does have their grammy-nominated song, "Darkness, Darkness" on it. Very cool, I'll have to see if I can get Jesse to sign this for me, too."

Ramona: "The famous Richie Havens from Woodstock. He's a hell of a guitarist, anything he puts out is worth picking up just for the guitar playing. He put out a lot of weird 80s albums that were weird, hopefully this isn't one of those though lol. It has covers of C.C. Rider and Boots of Spanish Leather."

Mr. Empty: "Okay...this is a weird one. This album is in EVERY book of album covers, and I've seen it over and over again but never actually seen a copy in person!!! No idea what this band sounds like, but the cover reminds me of King Crimson so...maybe they're similar? :P"

Mr. Empty: "This was my huge find! This is David Cross, doing stand-up. On vinyl. :O and and and the record is VELVET!!! and it comes with a DVD! :O :O :O DAVID CROSS!!!"