Wow! times have surely changed. As I'm writing this blog I'm also making new mp3's for my website, transferring analog recordings to digital, editing them in a computer and posting them to the Internet. What an age we live in! Back in the dark ages when I learned audio editing you actually cut and pasted physically with razor blade and sticky tape. That was not so long ago. The progression of technology is astounding. Don't get me wrong I've always been an early adopter of the new technical stuff.
One of the best things available today is reissues of old Gospel recordings on CD and iTunes, like the recording I found in the photo on the left at www.imperialsmusic.com . It is the Imperials first album. Now I've got a CD of an LP that has been in my family collection since it was new although it was in mono and scratchy, I cherished this jewel since I was a teen. Now through modern digital magic I can hear a pristine stereo copy of the album that can be passed on to my kids. The Imperials are my all time favorite group from their inception to all the line up changes to the mid 90's. I almost cried when I heard this new copy. I had never heard it without all the scratches, something kids today don't have to deal with unless that classic LP sound has been added back as an effect (how wierd). I went from LP's straight to CD's in the 80's and never looked back. On with technology.
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