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Now Dig This, you just might need to pop into Antone's Records to purchase the 180-gram vinyl. Platform? Yes, it's the store's front display bin.
In the olden days, a sort of chitlins (and grits) circuit of record stores carried releases by mom-and-pop labels such as Austin's Dialtone, documenting artists rooted deep in regional scenes where "authenticity" proved no more difficult than plugging in and playing. Louisianan out of Mansfield, Crystal Thomas grooves a modern day Southern soul circuit between Dallas and Shreveport, "but she tells me her real love is playing the blues," reveals the imprint's patriarch Eddie Stout.