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tty JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Some people might say that Dick Pierson is living in the past. He does not listen to the radio or to any music that dates past the 1940s unless done in the “old-time” style, and he rarely reads anything written after the 1800s or early 1900s.
Dick is living in the present, though, in Rappahannock near Amissville. His concern with the past, especially its music, is in preserving it and understanding its history. “I learn things from the recordings - things that were left out of the history books and encyclopedias,” Dick said. “I read books from the period just so I can better understand what the lyrics mean.”
There are a lot of lyrics for Dick to study since he has collected upwards of 50,000 titles. He has not been able to count the number of recordings. The oldest recording in his collection dates back to 1888 when the first phonographs had been developed. Those early recordings were made by a company known as Victor (now RCA-Victor)
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