“Every song tells a story, don’t it?”

My Consummate Collection for Mary Jane

Emotional memory hangs on every note, sharp, flat, and bass line

Mary Jane’s ID card for Penn State, plus additional pictures. Image by Walter Bowne/ Photoshop/Pixlr

At twenty-five, I was at Mary Jane’s ‘flat’ in 1994 for the first time, leafing through her album collection. I use British terms for pure pretension.