A PEEK INSIDE THE WORLD’S GREATEST RECORD STORE
BY RICHARD GRANT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON VARNEY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | July/August 2021 I first heard about Val Shively—a legendary figure among serious record collectors—from a friend of mine in Philadelphia named Aaron Levinson. He’s a Grammy-winning music producer, composer, DJ and rare vinyl collector who has been buying records from Shively for 40 years. “He has a store…