The Tracks & Tales Guide Daily

A running journal of the listening bar world — fragments, reflections, and discoveries written in the moment. Each piece follows the culture of slow listening as it unfolds, one record and one room at a time.

Stevie Wonder, Fifty Years in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder, Fifty Years in the Key of Life

Yesterday, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life turned fifty. The last session ended at 4:54 in the morning, and this week the record still ask...
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Twenty-Six Addresses

Twenty-Six Addresses

An order list puts everything in alphabetical order, which is the least romantic way to watch anything travel. Twenty-six copies, eighteen places, ...
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The Long Track

The Long Track

A September traffic queue, an Electribe 101 record put on for no good reason, and a title track that wouldn't end. Was it nostalgia, or just being ...
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Nobody Left

Nobody Left

Every rule in digital publishing says a two-thousand-word email about a single record should cost you readers. This one didn't cost a single member...
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The Letter I Kept

The Letter I Kept

A letter arrived a few days before Christmas, at the end of twelve years at Virgin, and it went into a drawer. Forty-two weeks ago I started writin...
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Five Sessions In

Five Sessions In

Five sessions in, the growth has been gentle and the feedback unnervingly consistent. Two things keep coming back, and neither was on the list: peo...
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