Don Byas “Moonlight in Vermont”

Posted on April 23, 2008
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I remember going to a used record store with my father when I was ten. I’d been to many record stores before, but none were quite like this one. There were just so many records stuffed into a small unorganized space. I looked through boxes and boxes of record while my father talked and laughed with the store clerk.

When I finally found one I wanted, I brought it over to them. It was the newest looking record I’d seen in the boxes. That’s probably why I chose it. I didn’t know who Don Byas was. I liked the smooth album cover–all white with his name in black block letters. It had a picture of a man playing the saxophone on it but the picture liked like it had been cut out from a magazine and pasted on the cover.

That night at home, I listened to that album again and again. My favorite song on it was Moonlight In Vermont. I’d listen to it before I went to bed for about a month.

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