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Truth Universal: Grinding and Rhyming

February 1, 2014 by: Brian Boyles

If you had the time and the patience, you could find everything you need to know about life inside Jim Russell Records on Magazine Street. Racks and shelves brim with 45s, LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Concert posters and photos climb every horizontal surface. The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk stand atop an old speaker box next to a runty Christmas tree, just down the shelf from an Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder and laughing figurines of James Brown and Ray Charles. How many gi...

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