Vinyl Discovery

A chance encounter with a Chi-Lites LP that is not available to stream.

It’s June 2018, and I have one last trip to Memphis to meet up with Eddie Floyd, with whom I am writing a book. (This one.) Having been to Memphis many a time over the decades, I’ve finally found a neighborhood I like in what can be a geographically disconcerting city. It’s Cooper Young, where Goner Records has boxes full of dirt cheap Stax and Hi 45s, …