Mocca Gallery

from Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press

• My record buying years spanned the Golden Age of Album Cover Art.
• This is a collection of some of the LPs that meant something to me. Just another self portrait of sorts.
• I remember long afternoons browsing through albums at the local head shop and record store “One Sweet Dream“, complete with black lights and incense.
• Later, I spent many lunches with Mr. Johnson down at Rose Records on State Street, flipping through cases of classic vinyl.
• I’d come home with bags full of good stuff. Bought with no recommendation other than the cover art.
• I remember listening to new purchases while holding the cover in both hands, studying the details.
• For big favorites, the turntable would be set to auto-repeat, the album cover would be propped up, facing outwards, always.
• Interesting. I had a program randomly arrange the images. There is only one solo album by John Lennon and only one by Paul McCartney. And yet they ended up side by side, Lennon and McCartney. How cool is that?

Ok, it’s official, the bottom is in.

Once something hits the cover of Time, you know it’s over. (at least temporarily)

I swear, if the S&P 500 can break above 1020 I’m jumping in. (maybe just a little toe’s worth)

PS – October 22nd – two and a half weeks later – the S&P still has not broken above 1020 – I guess we are still searching for the bottom – Oh My.