# Record Tribe Blog


## Posts

- [The night the bass started singing](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/the-night-the-bass-started-singing/): How a 24-year-old from Florida turned Weather Report's Heavy Weather into a bass record.
- [Why I keep buying Aja](https://blog.recordtribe.com/collecting/why-i-keep-buying-aja/): Steely Dan's 1977 record, and the four copies on my shelf.
- [Five pressings of Blue Train, side by side](https://blog.recordtribe.com/pressings/five-pressings-of-blue-train-side-by-side/): One record, five copies, and what changes from one to the next.
- [Kind of Blue, from the second row](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/kind-of-blue-from-the-second-row/): What Paul Chambers is doing while everyone listens to the horns.
- [The turntable I should have bought first](https://blog.recordtribe.com/gear/the-turntable-i-should-have-bought-first/): What I play my records on now, and what I'd tell myself in 2006.
- [Jaco's first album, 50 years on](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/jacos-first-album-50-years-on/): The 1976 debut that told every bassist what the instrument could do.
- [Which Black Market to buy](https://blog.recordtribe.com/pressings/which-black-market-to-buy/): Three pressings, one record, and the one I would keep.
- [Word of Mouth and the big band years](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/word-of-mouth-and-the-big-band-years/): The 1981 record that sounds like nothing else he made.
- [Reading a dead wax inscription](https://blog.recordtribe.com/pressings/reading-a-dead-wax-inscription/): What the letters scratched near the label tell you about a pressing.
- [Head Hunters at 53](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/head-hunters-at-53/): Herbie Hancock's 1973 record still opens every fusion conversation.
- [Joni Mitchell's Hejira, and the bass that wanders](https://blog.recordtribe.com/album-stories/joni-mitchells-hejira-and-the-bass-that-wanders/): Four songs, one bass player, and a record built around both.
- [The record that made me buy a fretless](https://blog.recordtribe.com/collecting/the-record-that-made-me-buy-a-fretless/): A used copy, a long drive home, and a decision I never regretted.

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