Stan Kenton - A Merry Christmas!
Here's a telling quote from my yuleblog entry two days ago: "It's hard to find newer obscurer new releases in a town of 225,000 (like Fort Wayne). You don't find many stores stocking their shelves the way they do like in New York, Indianapolis, or Chicago." Case in point: Billy Idol released a Christmas album last year. On our family trip to Chicago a month ago, I found this title in nearly every store I visited (with the hefty $25 price tag attached). Every music store in Fort Wayne didn't carry the album. One clerk awoke from his slacker haze long enough to look shocked and state dismissively "Billy Idol didn't record a Christmas album, man!" For a collector, living in a medium-to-small town can be rough. For a Christmas music collector whose time window is three months out of the year, it's disastrous. However the Borders store in Fort Wayne really stepped up this year. Their well organized Christmas section was the first goo...