Someday the stars will align and Chris Davis will find a first-press vinyl of Alice Coltrane’s 1968 jazz album, “Cosmic Music.”

The album, which features Coltrane’s famous saxophonist husband, John Coltrane, on two songs, is one of Davis’ “holy grail records,” he says.

Record fanatic Davis is the founder of the Colorado Springs Record Show, the only one of its kind in the Pikes Peak region. The first of two annual shows is Saturday at The Antlers, A Wyndham Hotel. The second will take place in November.

“I enjoy the humanity of vinyl,” Davis said. “I enjoy the tales records can tell. Sometimes you end up with used records that look pristine and were well cared for, but have some traces of previous ownership. There’s something human about it. A record can get some surface noise and it feels homey — it’s like reading a well-read book where the spine has been worn. Whereas a CD gets scratched and skips and it’s jarring and awful.”

Davis, who founded the event in 2019, was no stranger to record shows and selling records. He’d done shows in other cities and sold records to pay for his last year in college.

“For a while record collecting was like stamp collecting. It was out of the mainstream,” he said. “Only particularly passionate people did it. Fast forward and it’s 2019, and record sales kept climbing and more people got into it.”

A couple of hundred people showed up to peruse the 25 tables at his first show. This weekend he’s expecting 750 attendees and 80 vendors from around the state and a couple of neighboring states who will pile their tables with records, CDs, 45s, cassettes and other music memorabilia. He estimates about 75,000 records will be up for grabs, some starting at a dollar, but most in the $5 to $15 price range. One seller will sell boxes of records for $5. Davis will have about 2,000 albums spanning all genres for sale.

He never knows who’s bringing what to a show. Some of those holy grail records might show up — perhaps “Cosmic Music?” — and cost upwards of a few hundred bucks or more.

Davis wants people to buy and listen to records because it’s one of the only ways to own the music outright. While Apple Music, Spotify and other streaming services are convenient and a great way to find new music, you’ll never own it, he says, which could be a bummer at some point.

“If I had 10,000 albums in iTunes and died and my son said this music meant a lot to my dad and I’d like to listen to the tunes,” he said,

“Apple would say no, you don’t have any right to this music. Your dad bought a license. If you spend a few bucks more you own it. Records and physical media give us a way to connect to the past to things people before us loved.”

Davis didn’t realize his passion for records until college, when he got lost exploring new genres and subgenres of music and musicians he’d never heard of. Buying records became the cheapest and most novel way to find new music, he says.

“I’m fascinated by physical media and you don’t get more physical than a record,” he said. “CDs and cassettes have their charm, but there’s something about the size and tactility of a record. There’s something beautiful about a record collection. You can show it off — if you understand this record collection perhaps you can understand me a bit better.”