Quests . . . sales & returns
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Sometimes buying music becomes like big game hunting. You know what you want, you know roughly where you'll find it, you just have to track it down and catch it. 2 years I've been chasing this album and yesterday I finally stumbled across it. It all came from being put on hold by a bank a couple of years back, aside from the usual selection of Enya & South American nose flute music they kept playing this song. When I eventually got through to a human being I asked what they had on their hold mix & surprise surprise they didn't actually know. I had listened to the song about 4 times in full whilst I waited and managed to jot down some of the lyrics which were Googled and bought up the title. Since then I have listened to pretty much every version of Tall Trees In Georgia that I have come across & rejected them all only to find that I had been hunting the Buffy Sainte Marie orginal.Yesterday saw me feeling pretty low as I went to collect the left over copies of my good friends album from the 2 independant stores that I had manged to get to stock it up in London. It had sold a grand total of 1 copy. It was just a bit of a letdown that no-one had taken a chance on what was an interesting looking album at a resonable price. If I had come across it in the racks & not had any involvement in project I would of parted with the cash. It's just kind of sad that in my small suburban chain store I've shifted more copies than in the heart of Londons album buying mecca. My last stop before walking back down to the Underground was Berwick Street in Soho and there in the racks next to my friends album was, I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again by Buffy Sainte Marie with the song I had been stalking on it.I took it as a kind of an omen, not quite sure what it's pointing to with but there seemed to be some kind of strange symmetry to the fact that the 2 were there together waiting for me. Almost as if them not selling was the way for me to find the song I wanted. I do wish that I had found the album under happier circumstances but to finally own this damn song is a minor miracle.




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