Stephen R. Kimball is a writer and marketing communications professional living with his wife and two kids in the Ithaca area of Upstate New York.
In addition to music, I like books, coffee, and clothes—especially skinny ties.
”Whether it’s jazz or punk or anything else, you have to fight against the purists who want to narrow the definition. That’s what kills music because it stifles it to death.”
—Joe Strummer
“For me, these songs weren’t movies, but experiences in which I could lose myself. There was a definite spiritual dimension to these repeat listens. When I fell into records … I’d land in spaces more elevated, inspiring, and yes, divine than my mother’s living room… . More than attending the Baptist church on our Brooklyn block or praying before bed, or anything officially ‘Religious’ in my life, these repeat listens felt spiritual, even transcendental. I was looking for God in the vinyl.” —Nelson George
