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has made popular, the years and the producers.
He catalogues them alphabetically on the shelves, each sleeve wearing a color band containing its “vital statistics,” including style, recording date, the artist and other facts. Most of the vinyl discs are dated by Pierson’s artistic hand.
While he admits some may be cracked, broken or chipped, they all play and they all “have pretty good sound. Like this one here,” he pulls another disc, dating back to the turn of the century.
His familiarity with each author, publishing company and time of production becomes a mental encyclopedia — a guided tour to accompany each disc.
Though he says he spends little time among the stacks — he explains most of his time is spent reproducing the original recordings onto tapes for marketing — it’s hard to imagine his absences from the corridors of sound.
His business, Sounds of a Century, sells, nationwide and internationally, 60-minute cassette tapes of vintage music — such as tapes of one artist, of one era, of one style, and others — to other collectors, novice collectors, people giving birthday or wedding anniversary parties, and
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