Adrian Belew said The Talking Heads were the hip soundtrack to the 1980s.  Shockingly enough they’re still hip but they’re no longer just a soundtrack. They’re the whole movie.

This is the inside of Sweat Records in Miami, proud supporter of the Co-Op lp and today’s Brown Brothers retailer of the day.  Say his to Jason and Emile for us when you check out with your copy of The Co-Op.

Traveling salesmen are critical to humanizing a company’s products and ethos and here at Brown Brothers we have one of the best in the world. David M. Elkins is a man men want to be like and women just plain like. If you buy music you will forever cherish the day this beautiful soul comes-a-calling. It doesn’t hurt that he also owns our company and is selling music he helped create and believes in with all his heart. Long may you run Mr. Elkins.

This is the live room at the now-defunct Clinton Recording studio, where The Co-Op was recorded.  It has been written that it was the largest of its kind in Nyc, used for orchestras in the past. The ambience in the room was unbelievable and a big contributor to the lp’s glorious sound.

Vintage 1979 technics turntable vintage 1986 teac 2016 Totem speakers.

It takes real vision to create a new record label. It takes double vision to create multiple labels working in very similar genres simultaneously.

Looking for good BBQ in Florida ? It’s rarer than it should be for the South but this former nfl’er’s namesake is serving it up according to bbr’ s resident gourmand.

The Brown Brothers can vouch for the fact that Leadville, Colorado is one of the highest places to be in the U.S.  You know where else you can get real high? Listening to our Co-Op lp on a good sound system.

Entry to The Jazz Record Center on W 26th st. in Manhattan

Off the elevator….

Jazz Record Center W 26th St. NYC

Fred Cohen #1

yet more…

beautiful visions…

Doings of the Brown Brothers…..

Academy Records NYC – 12th st. – among the crates….

Brown Bros #1 digging thru the crates @ Academy 12th st.

The Modern Jazz Quartet- an obsession of the uptown Brown Bro these days…

another look at today’s purchases – it’s an MJQ world….

Day started in Lexington KY with Brown Bro #1A opening up a new account @ CD Central – hurry in if yer in the area – they only have a few copies of The CO-OP

We are hitting the road, driving north from Fort Lauderdale with a bag-ful of The Co-Op Lps. If you are a radio station, retailer or just plain ol’ consumer located between Miami and Lexington, Kentucky hit us up before Sunday, January 16 and we’ll get you some German vinyl and Mike Anderson art   It will be an artifact you will treasure.

Meet Derrick Hodge, one of the most beautiful musicians and spirits with whom we have come into contact.  He is like a beam of pure light in a universe of darkness. Pluck on supreme bass man.