Staff photo by Jenna Walker/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chad Bledsoe, the owner of Chad’s Records on Vine Street, laughs in his shop where the walls are lined with vinyl albums including Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones and Kiss.Each day, Chad Bledsoe sits at the front of his shop, surrounded by the faces of some of the greatest pioneers in music.
Buddy Holly, Elvis and others hide the white of the walls.
Bledsoe, the owner of Chad’s Records on the corner of Vine and Lindsay streets, carefully picks up a vinyl disc from the turntable and cleans the record before sliding it into its sleeve.
The store, on the edge of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, overflows with new and used vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, even a few music-related goodies.
Yet the store remains largely empty aside from scattered visits from Bledsoe’s regulars.