The Art of Listening to 45s

Inheriting my mom’s childhood record collection has given me a whole new way to appreciate sound

Ashawnta Jackson
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readAug 13, 2019

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WWhen I was a kid, my parents had a huge record collection. Some of them, they bought together as adults, but most were from my mother’s childhood collection. She had drawn hearts around Jackie Wilson’s picture on the cover of his LP, kept her James Brown…

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Ashawnta Jackson
Human Parts

Writer and record collector. Sometimes not in that order. More at www.heyjackson.net