For the record, Angie Semple from Canada had to stay at the historic Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio for just that. The record.
“Do you want to know why we’re staying here?” the Ottawa resident said on a recent Friday evening in the luxe hotel’s lobby, hugging a record by Howlin’ Wolf and U2’s “The Joshua Tree.” “A high-level amount of that.”
Semple nodded to a nearby alcove where a wall of walnut wood shelves housed hundreds of records. In front of it a young man ran a turntable at a gold mirror booth with a pair of slim black floor speakers. The music of the moment: 2025’s “Viaggio” by Nicola Conte, a jazzy collection of ’70s Italian library music…