In anticipation of 'The Record Store of the Mind', a new book by Tompkins Square record label founder Josh Rosenthal out October 20th, Tompkins Square Books offers a fresh look at their first release - 2012's 'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes,' by Michael Corcoran. This book/CD package was nominated for a Grammy Award, Best Historical Album, in 2013. Corcoran, former music critic and columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, has spent years unearthing revelatory details on the life of Arizona Dranes, a mysterious woman behind the music that set the mold in 1926 for rockin' singer/ pianists with six "e;test records"e; that have stood the test of time. Until now, very little has been correctly reported about Dranes other than the facts that she was blind, from Texas, had a piercing Pentecostal voice and was the first recording artist to play piano in the secular styles of the day, while singing words of deep praise.