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and were of a banjo player named Vess Aussman.
The early recordings may be scratchy, but Dick would still rather listen to them than to anything being done musically today. “I’ve tried listening to songs done after 1940, but I found that most of them just didn’t have anything to say,” Dick said. “Today’s music is commercial, and if any music shows realism or compassion, it isn’t wanted.”
Dick began listening to music while growing up in Ohio. “My parents had stacks of records that I used, so I grew up listening to the Carter Family and others,” Dick said. “I started listening to the radio, but I didn’t like what I heard, so I started collecting records.”
Dick’s search for records soon extended past his relatives and friends. “When I had gotten all of the recordings my neighbors had and what the town had, I started going to thrift shops and anywhere else I could think of where old records could be,” Dick said.
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