open hours:
Tues. to Sat. 12 – 9
Sun. & Mon. 12 – 6
hello,
this is jason speaking. there’s alot to say & not much time to type it but i’ll give it a shot.
today is wed. oct. 21st 2009 & at some point today jad fair’s brother david will arrive from coldwater, michigan to the true vine with a truck crammed full of vinyl for us to sell. jad called me last week to tell me that he & david have decided to sell both their entire large record collections to this shop. both collections have been in storage for a long time & some of these records were from their first record purchasing days in the 70’s.
if you know some history about half japanese then you could imagine as much as i could that there would be some very interesting music in these boxes. about 20 years ago when i had a record shop in frederick, md, david dropped off a pile of amazing records on my desk for me to borrow. everything in that stack was amazing & that was the first time i heard jandek. half of those records were jandek lps. the amount of records between the two of them is easily in the thousands & david’s drop off today will be part 1 of two drop offs. the next will be in about 3 months from now.
hello there,
here’s some blurbs of about 1% of what’s come through our door this week, just to make a few points in space. but first i will mention an upcoming true vine performance:
DANIEL HIGGS live at the true vine saturday october 18th daniel will start at 3:00 p.m. during open store hours
when he will stop, nobody knows
there is no admission charge
The Baltimore institution the True Vine, has lost an owner (Ian Nagoski), razed its inventory and uprooted itself, walking down the Avenue and turning right to settle into its new home on Hickory. So we figured what better time to forge a relationship with such a vast repository of largely oral knowledge and history than this pivotal time of rebooting and restructuring.
In the future, we hope to have some valuable contributions to our musical knowledge and worldview from co-owner Jason Willett. But for a primer, and the month of October, we will have to settle for an update on the going-ons of the business.
