Legendary L.A. session group, The Immediate Family.

Hey we're WEEKLY now! This week, we continue to ramp up to Record Store Day (April 20) with another look at two special releases coming out on that special day.

RSD's Rick Johnson has put together a live recording of last November's tribute concert, Lenny Kaye & Friends: Live At The Cat's Cradle, a 50th Anniversary Celebration of Nuggets. We'll hear from Rick and then hear from the drummer from the star-studded event itself, Jon Wurster (Bob Mould Band, Mountain Goats, Superchunk).

Then ex-New York Dolls guitarist Steve Conte unveils his RSD release, The Concrete Jangle, most of which was co-written with friend of the show, Andy Partridge (XTC).

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

Executive producers for RSD: Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

For the full RSD 2024 list and other RSD related news and events, go to RecordStoreDay.com.

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This episode is dedicated to the late Karl Wallinger (Waterboys, World Party).

Paul took a month off, and plenty happened while he was away, including the announcement of the RSD List for 2024, and the announcement of Paramore as this year's Record Store Day Ambassador(s).

Plus, to celebrate the fact that our show is now 'going WEEKLY, Paul cooked up a rockin' new theme song! 

Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton is back to roll out all the announcements, and then Variety's Chris Willman chats with Paul about a few things on The List that caught his ear.

Record Store Day is April 20, 2024, to see (and download) The List, and to catch up on all the late breaking news from RSD, go to RecordStoreDay.com.

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers who also composed the theme and selected interstitial music.

Executive Producers (for RSD): Michael Kurtz, and Carrie Colliton.

Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, RSDMRKT.com, and Furnace Record Pressing, the official vinyl pressing plant of Record Store Day. 

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"Record stores can't save your life, but they can give you a better one." - Nick Hornby

It's the return of The First Record I Ever Bought, and this time we look back at the past year to bring you the first physical media purchase stories from Corinne Bailey Rae, The Replacements' Tommy Stinson, Allison Russell, Lloyd Cole, Kristin Hersh, Stewart Copeland of The Police,  Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison, Dominique Durand & Andy Chase from Ivy, The Immediate Family members Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, Waddy Wacthel & Steve Postell with documentarian Denny Tedesco, Bauhaus/Love And Rockets founding member David J, and Dave Wakeling from The English Beat / General Public.

For all the exciting news about this year's Record Store Day, including The List for 2024, go to RecordStoreDay.com.

Thanks to Carrie Colliton and Michael Kurtz at RSD.

The RSD Podcast is written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

Sponsored by our good friends at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, RSDMRKT.com, and Furnace Record Pressing (the official pressing plant of Record Store Day).

While host Paul Myers is away, we're looking back at two different interviews from 2023 featuring artists who were nominated for Grammy Awards this year. One of them, Jason Isbell, was also in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award nominated film, Killers Of The Flower Moon, and was 2023's RSD Ambassador along with his partner, and friend of the show, Amanda Shires. Jason and the 400 Unit delivered the Grammy nominated album Weathervanes, which we discuss in this interview. And we're also running an interview with Allison Russell, who caught the Recording Academy's ear for her triumphant 2023 album, The Returner.

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme and selected interstitial music.

Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, RSDMRKT.com, and Furnace Record Pressing (the official pressing plant of RSD.)

Thanks to RSD co-founders Carrie Colliton and Michael Kurtz.

When Paul invited the filmmaker Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Grace Of My Heart) to remember the late great Shangri-Las lead singer Mary Weiss (who passed away on January 19th at the age of 75) we thought it was only going to be a 15-minute segment. In hindsight, this was always going to be the full hour. Enjoy!

And Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton alerts us to some important RSD announcements coming up at RecordStoreDay.com, and remarks on the passing of Melanie Safka who passed away on January 23rd at the age of 76).

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme and selected interstitial music.

Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, RSDMRKT.com, and Furnace Record Pressing (the official pressing plant of RSD)

Thanks to RSD co-founder Michael Kurtz.

Sleater-Kinney founding members Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker are here to discuss the pain and defiant joy that informs their vibrant new album, Little Rope (Loma Vista).

And J. Smith-Cameron, "Gerri" from HBO's Succession, pops by to tell us how exactly she ended up starring in the Carrie Brownstein-directed video for S-K's "Say It Like You Mean It."

Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton zooms in from Raleigh, NC, to discuss some significant new developments from the world of RSD. For the most up-to-date information on all things Record Store Day, drop by RecordStoreDay.com.

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme and selected interstitial music used in the show.

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Happy New Year from The Record Store Day Podcast.

We ring in 2024 with a 40-minute special episode featuring legendary Southern California session players, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, and Steve Postell, also known as The Immediate Family, which just happens to be the title of a new documentary by Denny Tedesco (The Wrecking Crew). And through the sporadically shaky miracle of Zoom, we had all six of these guys converge to talk about their collective brotherhood, the great artists they've worked with, the new documentary, and their own upcoming album, Skin In The Game.

For the latest in Record Store Day news, go to RecordStoreDay.com.

The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and RSDMRKT.com. 

Once again, it's time to take our annual glance at some of the records that make it a cool yule, and this year we have a very qualified guide in returning guest, journalist and author Annie Zaleski, who has written about 100 of them in her new book This Is Christmas, Song by Song (Running Press).

And since it's our holiday party, Paul talks holiday music with RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton.

The Record Store Day Podcast is written produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

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Season's Greeting From All Of Us At The Record Store Day Podcast!

At the holidays, the best kind of "Wrapped" is physical media (records, CDs, and even music books) nicely wrapped and placed under the tree. From time to time we do episodes about music books that celebrate the art of record making, and on this one we speak with author Ben Greenman who worked with the legendary Sly Stone, to give us the memoir Thank You (Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin) out now from AUWA Books, with a foreword by the publisher, Questlove himself.

We also spoke with Slate's Chris Molanphy about his extensive study of the historically significant Lil Nas X hit, "Old Town Road," in his book Old Town Road, out now from Duke University Press.

And Bay Area journalist Joel Selvin speaks on behalf of his late co-author, Arhoolie Records founder and mainstay Chris Strachwitz, about their new book Down Home Music, featuring Strachwitz's photographs from travels in the American rural south to curate the music that inspired a generation. 

And RSD's Carrie Colliton explains the new RSD MRKT initiative and even recommends a few books of her own.

For more information go to RSDMRK.com, and RecordStoreDay.com

Also sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

The RSD Podcast is written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

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It's the annual RSD Black Friday Special, featuring interviews with a selection of people behind certain titles on "The List."
Dave Wakeling, co-founder of The English Beat, talks about the Birmingham ska band's landmark 1980 debut, I Just Can't Stop It, newly expanded into a 2 LP set with bonus live and dub tracks.

Amoeba Records' David Prinz and Polly Parsons (daughter of Gram Parsons) are here to talk about a newly unearthed live recording of Gram Parsons And The Fallen Angels (featuring Emmylou Harris) called The Last Roundup: Live From The Bijou Cafe in Philadelphia, March 16, 1973.

The painter Anna Jensen has assembled a cast of heavyweight musicians to toast her (very much alive and healthy) husband, Drivin' N' Cryin's Kevn Kinney on the tribute album Let's Go Dancing: Said The Firefly To The Hurricane.

David J., co-founder of Bauhaus and Love And Rockets, has a triple LP set of his demos called Tracks From The Attic.

And RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton checks in from Raleigh, NC.

Record Store Day Black Friday is November 24, for the full list and all things Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com.

Written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.

Sponsored by Dogfish Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables.

Thanks for RSD's Michael Kurtz.

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