at joe’s record paradise, the music goes round and round
Johnson Lee said he lost £ 20 pounds on his last move, a record paradise for Joe in Silver Springs, Maryland.
\"I\'m more efficient now,\" he said, standing in the middle of the old last week --
The record store was recently closed, five blocks from the new Georgian Avenue.
\"I\'m more organized.
The last time was torture.
Johnson, 40, looked into the work he and his staff had done and the rest: rock records had been boxed. Hip-
The same goes for jumping and R & B.
Jazz, country music, reggae music and all the CDs.
\"It could also be very bad,\" he said with just a hint of resignation.
You may have heard that the black gum band is back because the hipster band is calling for their music to be released on a groovy disc.
But in places like Joe\'s Record Paradise, vinyl records have never disappeared.
You can buy an LP there for a little money-
Get a dozen songs with just one iTunes download
Or hand over many times for rare jazz or R & B records.
This record will be physically present.
Album art, liner notes, maybe a scribbled ballpoint pen from the former owner --
What your original digital download lacks.
The downside is that it will be more difficult to move.
Oh, it\'s easy to move a record,. . .
Johnson, how many records are in Joe\'s Record Paradise inventory?
Johnson scan 6,000square-
The space of the foot, made a quick calculation.
\"I think it\'s probably close to 100,000,\" he said . \".
Then he remembered the shortage of people and doubled his estimate: 200,000.
Understock: records stored under custom-
Wooden bins that customers read.
They are replicas of the top, because in fact, how many copies of Vanilla Fudge\'s 1967 debut album with the same name do you need to show at any time?
Joe\'s Record Paradise has been in the suburbs of Maryland for six years.
Before that, it was located on the East Goodall Avenue in Rockville.
Before Aspen Hill.
Before that, at Del Mercado square in Layhill area, Montgomery County.
It first opened in tacma Park in 1974 and was founded by Johnson\'s father, Joe Lee, the black sheep of the Blair family in Maryland. the-
Scene booster for DC.
Music has something to do with British Pacers and Root Boy Slim.
When Johnson started working for his father, he was about 10 years old and spent the weekend behind the store running a contracting companywrap machine.
He did other things after high school.
Working in a pharmacy, working in a printing factory, taking care of his grandmother with Alzheimer\'s
Then, about 2008, he took over the record shop from his father.
\"When the economy started to decline, he just threw the key to me,\" Johnson said . \" Named after the Mississippi Delta blues guitarist Robert Johnson, Johnson sold his soul to the Devil
Joe lives on a hill in West Virginia.
Johnson considered the move.
\"The last action was in the snowstorm,\" he said . \".
\"I may have lost my life for a year.
The last thing to do is to remove the poster from the wall: \"Arisha Franklin sang the Great Diva Classic\", hanging next to Gene Simmons at Kiss, who is on the SEAL team, close to Niles lovelgren and Iron Maiden.
New location
8700 Georgia Avenue
In the basement of SunTrust Bank Building
It\'s a little small, but there are more parking spaces nearby.
Johnson hopes to move in all and open the door by next week, but it will depend on whether he has passed the inspection. (Call 301-
Check to see if Joe\'s has the record machine turned on. )
Johnson says he has been looking for more despite his 200,000 records.
\"I go through 10 collections a day, ranging from a stack of records to 5 to 10 boxes,\" he said . \".
\"People called and said they had jazz records.
I said, big band or bop?
If they say \"bop\", I will ask, is \"Riverside, Prestige, Prestige\" a blue note?
\"If this is one of them [labels]
Let\'s do business, I said.
But really, isn\'t it easier to cancel the storefront and sell things online?
\"I don\'t want to sell online because I want D. C.
An area with an amazing record collection, \"Johnson said.
\"Should I sell our culture to the highest bidder or should I leave it in the DMV?
Your Washington-
District schools have parties in the coming months?
I will try to list it in my column.
Send me details: school name, year of class, date of reunion and contact details I can print. Email john. kelly@washpost.
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