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Richard Thompson Returns! The acclaimed English singer/songwriter, and highly influential guitarist is back with a fantastic new album called Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes (in stores now from New West Records). In his second appearance on our podcast, Thompson gets granular on the process of songwriting, and shares candid revelations about the singers who inspired him, memories of fallen contemporaries like John Martyn and Nick Drake, and the time he shared a hot tub with a Beatle.

Happy November, and have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole list and start planning your crate digging strategy now. 

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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80-year-old Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest living American songwriters, and he's just released a brand new album, Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs Of Jimmy Webb (out now on the Sun Records label!), which finds him dusting off, rewriting, and recording a set of older songs that were pitched to legends but for various reasons, never recorded. Until now. He's joined by fellow greats such as Graham Nash, Amy Grant, Michael McDonald, Beth Neilsen Chapman, and more. Jimmy is also the subject of a Great Performances special, Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter which debuts on PBS on October 30th.

And have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now. 

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Last week, EELS released their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened, and it's another in a long line of albums packed with songs that feature beautifully human, often broken, characters who flow from the eloquent and imaginative pen of songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as simply, E.

E joins Paul to talk about the new songs, some old songs, his process, his life, and the many other humans that made him what he is today, which is one of the best and most prolific American songwriters in our midst, and the subject of a forthcoming Judd Apatow-produced documentary.

And have you heard the news, Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now. 

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Welcome to Season 8 of The Record Store Day Podcast!

Americana legend ​Buddy Miller ​ushers in our eighth season to discuss ​his recently released album, Buddy Miller (New West Records). His first solo set in 15 years features guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, The War & Treaty, Lee Ann Womack, Dan Penn, and more. Along the way, our wide-ranging conversation covers Buddy's work with Robert Plant (Band of Joy), his wife Julie Miller, and memories of working with the late Dolly Parton and Solomon Burke, and with Hayden Panettiere on the hit ABC television series, Nashville, alongside T-Bone Burnett.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Singer/Songwriter Meg Lui is here to talk about her long-awaited debut album, Instant Validation, which was co-produced by Sufjan Stevens for his own Asthmatic Kitty Records label. Along the way, Meg talks about the Catskills community she shares with partner/collaborator Keenan O'Meara, musical theater, why she dropped out of Berklee, the constant risk of being slaves to our digital devices, and why an album with "instant" in its title took so long to realize.  

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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One of the highlights on the new Michigander album, Over Before You Know It (in stores now via Totally Normal Records / Thirty Tigers) is a song called "Freaking Out." Michigander's Jason Singer is here to explain why that song title aptly explains the last couple of years he's been having, and how he put it all back into the 10 insanely catchy tunes on his band's sophomore release. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have just released their new album, OurHome, which finds Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, who formed in Dublin, recording in Tokyo, Japan. They're here to talk about how heavy metal inspired their around the world journey, where it took them, and what they've taken home as a result. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Legendary blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is here with GA-20 guitarist and producer Matthew Stubbs to discuss their raging new collaboration, Blues Now (New West Records), which is out now at your local independent record store. Along the way, we talk about Musselwhite's early days working in Chicago blues record stores, the so-called "Hillbilly Highway," and his hollywood connections to filmmaker Martin Scorsese, and Dan Aykroyd, who based his harp wailing Blues Brothers' character, Elwood Blues. 

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Mike Campbell, the humble guitar hero from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakersd and co-writer of dozens of indelible classic rock hits, makes his RSD pod debut to unpack his new album, Mission Of Mercy, the fourth release from his band, The Dirty Knobs. Along the way, we also touch on the genius of Brian Wilson and Campbell's work with Dylan, Petty, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, and The B-52's Kate Pierson, who makes a memorable guest appearance on the new album. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Happy September! 

The recent return of Canadian national heroes Rush and the emergence of Quebec's Angine de Poitrine have made our Toronto-born host feel a little homesick, so we've invited media icon George "Strombo" Stroumboulopoulos for some cross-border rock talk about bands, records, concerts and our shared passion for music. The True North, Strombo and free - from the shores of Lake Ontario to wherever you're listening! 

Plus, Nashville mainstay Buddy Miller talks about working with the late, great Dolly Parton in an excerpt from his own future full episode of our podcast. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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2026 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees Billy Idol & Steve Stevens talk about their 45-year brotherhood in rock, recorded live on stage before a standing room only crowd at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans as Keynote speakers for Record Store Day Summer Camp 2026.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Portland based singer/songwriter Laura Veirs discusses how a new relationship helped her regain full agency of her recording environment, and how she not only ​wrote all of the delicate yet empowered songs on her stunning new album, Temple Songs, but she also played 99% of the instruments, put it out on her own label, and even built the studio herself. Veirs also shares details of the upcoming 10th Anniversary re-issue of case/lang/veirs, her collaboration with k.d. lang and Neko Case, with bonus live tracks and a previously unreleased song.

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John Darnielle returns to talk about The Mountain Goats new album, Days, which just came out last week, but of course the conversation goes all over the place. We preview moments from the album, including the ongoing story behind the song "Candlebox," and how a fictional song inspired real life events. This was a fun chat.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Four-time Grammy® award-winning drummer, producer, educator, activist, and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington discusses the eclectic music and socially conscious words on Trip The Night Fantastic, the brand new album with her group, Social Science (featuring Matthew Stevens, Aaron Parks, and Morgan Guerin), that also features a jam-packed roster of hand-picked special guests including Miki Howard, Arooj Aftab, Ledisi, Debo Ray, Christie Dashiell, friend of the show, Marc Ribot, and many more. 

There's so much important musical information in this episode. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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The highly literate British psych-folk pop rock raver Robyn Hitchcock returns for his third RSD podcast appearance, this time to unveil his cracking new album, The Confuser (Tiny Ghost Records). Naturally, if you know Hitchcock, there are plenty of digressions into topics such as; people named "Roger," temporal literacy, trams and trolley buses, the polka dots of Angine de Poitrine, the culinary prowess of Gillian Welch, and why, as the author of two memoirs (including his newly published Stranded In The Future) he's often an "unreliable narrator" in his own life story.

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Today's guest, Lenny Kaye couldn't be more suited to The RSD Podcast. He's a celebrated author, guitarist, music journalist, and record producer, who has finally, after all this time, released his very first solo album, Goin' Local, out now from Yep Roc. In addition to his many decades as Patti Smith's guitarist and aide-de-camp, Lenny was also the architect of the highly influential 1972 garage rock/psychedelic compilation, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, which launched many sequels, and more than a few bands, in its wake.

We talk about all of the above, and more, in this very special conversation. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Grammy-nominated North Carolinian singer/songwriter Tift Merritt returns to our podcast to discuss Sugar (One Riot records), her first new album of original material in nearly a decade, but of course the conversation always goes much deeper than the record, which is why "T-Bird" is one of our favorite guests.  

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Omnivore Recordings co-founder Cheryl Pawelski celebrates Omnivore's 15 years of Grammy worthy re-issues and archival record projects. This fascinating conversation is peppered with plenty of fun facts and musical highlights. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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This episode debuts on July 7, Happy Birthday Ringo Starr! 

Happy Independents Week!

Legendary jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver is here to talk about this year's reissue of his first album as a bandleader, the 1968 set Charles Tolliver All Stars: Right Now... And Then, (which was reissued for this year's Record Store Day, and which features a stellar backing lineup that includes Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and Gary Bartz), and the legacy of Strata-East Records, the artist-run, artist-friendly independant jazz label he founded with the late Stanley Cowell in 1971.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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In his incredible new music biography, Where The Music Had To Go, author Jim Windolf explores the parallel careers of two of the most influential artists of the post rock & roll era, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. He's here to explain why Bob is more like a Beatle than a Rolling Stone. 

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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The Me That Remains isn't just the first original Amy Grant album in 13 years, produced by Mac MacAnally, it's a deeply intimate, stripped-down, folk-pop reflection on survival, aging, and reconstruction, heavily shaped by a series of profound, recent life-altering health events including a severe 2022 bicycle accident that left this multiple Grammy winner and Kennedy Center honoree with a traumatic brain injury and a long road to recovery. Luckily, Amy fought her way back to tell us all about it in this wide-ranging and revealing conversation. 

For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Last year, the legendary post-punk collective Mekons released HORROR (Fire Records), their first new album in five years. They've just released a dub remix version of songs from that record, entitled HORRORble (Mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) and founding member Jon Langford is here with longtime bandmate Sally Timms for their Record Store Day Podcast debut​ to unpack the new mixes and the history of a band that's been operating​ under the Mekons banner since ​founding the group in Leeds, England, during the heady punk times of 1977. 

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Happy June!

When we first had Sean Ono Lennon on the show we discussed his loving curation and restoration of the work of his famous parents, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. This time he's back to finally talk about his own music, made in collaboration with Les Claypool (Primus). In this timely chat about a not-too-distant future, we unpack (unclip?) The Great Parrot Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy, the smart new concept album from The Claypool Lennon Delirium. 

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Greatest Hits Records & Books in Media, PA, is where our guests, Stu Eli, Jesse Gennett, and Dom Glisson cooked up the idea to record and release an "audio time capsule" of the sounds of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a/k/a "Delco." The result is the 92-track album, The Sounds Of Delco, Vol. 1, a light-hearted but affectionate nod to their region and to the used sound effects records that wash up in the store from time to time. 

Paul also pays tribute to Jack Douglas (1945-2026) the legendary music producer and engineer of classic albums by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Cheap Trick, Patti Smith Group, Aerosmith, and The New York Dolls, who passed on at the age of 80 on May 11. 

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Filmmaker Adria Petty and music producer/engineer Ryan Ulyate have a deeply personal interest in maintaining the high musical and moral standards set by the late Tom Petty. In the afterglow of the highly successful Record Store Day release of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Live At The Paradise Rock Club, recorded in 1978 by Boston's WCBN radio, Adria and Ryan are here to talk about the Petty Estate's labor of love; preserving the musical legacy of TP and The Heartbreakers, and honoring the band's deep bond with their fans.

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Castle Rat is a self-described "medieval fantasy metal band" led by our guest, Riley Pinkerton. In her stage persona as "The Rat Queen," Pinkerton is a sword-wielding heroine on a mission to expand and defend 'The Realm' from those who seek to destroy it. Off stage, she's a friendly, glue-gun wielding creative arts kid, firmly grounded in the real world. She's here to talk about the band's most recent concept album, The Bestiary, why she feels that the body positive fantasy art of Frank Frazetta was actually empowering to women, and how she and her band all get a good laugh out of watchingl the film, This Is Spinal Tap. 

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Songwriter's songwriter Joe Pernice (The Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys, The New Mendicants) joins us for his third appearance on the podcast, this time to unpack his impressive new album Sunny, I Was Wrong (New West Records), on which he's assisted by an A list of guests that include Aimee Mann, Jimmy Webb, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Rodney Crowell, and Jale's Laura Stein, who also happens to be married to Joe. Heck, Warren Zanes (Deliver Me From Nowhere) even wrote a liner note for it.

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Toronto-based band Metric have come a long way since their official formation over two decades ago, but as they sang in their 2008 single "Help, I'm Alive," their hearts are still "beating like a hammer." Metric co-founder and lead singer Emily Haines is here to guide us through the "minefield of memory" and unpack the urgent and emotional songs on the band's just released 10th album, Romanticize The Dive (Thirty Tigers/MMI), and Metric's impending tour with fellow Canadian legends Broken Social Scene and (friends of the podcast), Stars.

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook is here to discuss the band's fantastic new album Trixies, featuring the current lineup of the beloved London, England based band bringing to life a concept album full of songs that Tilbrook and co-founder Chris Difford first wrote together over 50 years ago, well before they'd even recorded their debut album with producer John Cale. The result is arguably the band's strongest album in decades. We also look back on Squeeze's earlier work with Elvis Costello, reveal how The Roots played an indirect role in the band's current lineup, and Glenn pays his respects to dear departed original drummer, Gilson Lavis. 

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Continuing our preview series in the run up to Record Store Day, April 18, Grammy and Emmy winning musician and activist Ziggy Marley is here to discuss the exclusive Record Store Day debut of his brand new album Brightside (Tuff Gong Worldwide), his new studios and HQ in L.A., the legacy of his iconic father Bob Marley, remembrances of Sly Dunbar (from Sly & Robbie), and the challenges of conquering racsim and all manner of hate in the world, plus an update on The Ziggy Marley Foundation's ongoing relief efforts for the people of Jamaica devastated in the wake of Hurricane Melissa.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 4: A Jazz & Blues Roundup.

Continuing our preview series in the run up to Record Store Day, April 18, we welcome our frequent guest, Zev Feldman, a/k/a "the Jazz Detective," to discuss 11 of the Jazz and Blues titles he and his team have curated for Exclusive Release on Record Store Day. It's a fast-flying frenzy of free music finery. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 3.

Legendary music producer Jerry Goldstein (Eric Burdon & War, Sly & The Family Stone and more) is here to discuss the fascinating and often tragic story of Ike White, who recorded a forgotten 1974 funky soul cult classic, Changin' Times, with a mobile truck at Tehachapi State Prison while serving a life sentence for murder. That album so moved Stevie Wonder that he actively campaigned for White's early release from prison. This year, Rhino has remastered and pressed 3000 copies of Changin' Times for an RSD Exclusive release. We discuss the events surrounding the original album with its producer, Goldstein, whose own music business history includes co-writing the 1960s "girl group" hit "My Boyfriend's Back" for The Angels, and being one third of the "fake Australian surf group" The Strangeloves ("I Want Candy") and going on to work with Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and the act he put together, Eric Burdon & WAR, whom he also produced. 

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 2.

It's Record Store Day, Charlie Brown!

On this episode we'll continue to preview titles from the RSD 2026 List, as we welcome Jason and Sean Mendelson from Lee Mendelson Film Productions, to talk about their father's enduring animation series of Charlie Brown TV Specials based on characters in the Peanuts universe created by Charles M. Schulz. This year, LMFP will partner with RSD to release 5000 copies of the double LP pressing of two of Jazz legend Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts soundtracks: It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown's All Stars!  The two brothers talk about Guaraldi, Schulz, their father, and how LMFP is continuing to pursue eco-friendly green initiatives on all of their releases on "bio-attributed vinyl" to reduce carbon footprint, with sustainably forested paper and in a PVC gatefold jacket and a recycled bag. In 2026, for every copy sold, LMFP will contribute $1.00 to the Arbor Day Foundation, with a minimum annual donation of $12,000 leading to the planting of one tree in a forest of need.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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XTC guitarist extraordinaire Dave Gregory joins us to discuss the band's very first Record Store Day Exclusive Release, a double-LP set called Live Boots, culled from a show recorded for radio broadcast at Emerald City, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey during the band's 1981 tour for their Black Sea album. Dave recalls that heady time, and expounds on his two main passions; collecting vintage guitars, and the joyful rituals of playing his many vinyl records.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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Steve Berlin has been a member of L.A. band Los Lobos since 1984, but in the interim he has split his career between playing saxophone for that band (and The Blasters) and becoming an in-demand record producer for a host of bands including Los Lobos, Faith No More, Crash Test Dummies, and Canada's biggest band, The Tragically Hip. But in 1981, he began his production career working on an album for L.A. local legends, Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs. The album, Pigus Drunkus Maximus, was initially released on the vanity label of another L.A. legend, Steve Wynn, before practically vanishing into the mists of L.A. musical history. This year, the album received a deluxe remastered reissue, with liner notes by Chris Morris, and archival photography by Gary Leonard. Steve tells us the legend of Top Jimmy, and shares some exciting Los Lobos news. And Paul (always the Canadian) asks him about producing The Tragically Hip.

 The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 18th.

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Rival Sons frontman Jay Buchanan went deep into the desert, and himself, to summon up the powerful songs on his recently released solo album Weapons of Beauty, in stores now from Sacred Tongue Recordings (via Thirty Tigers). He also covered a beloved Leonard Cohen tune for good measure. We talk about that, and about Jay's recent work on the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, in this intimate and personal conversation recorded last month.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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Every week, Paul asks his guests the familiar musical question, "What was the first record you ever bought in a record shop with your own money." For several seasons, we've been culling a few of the most interesting responses for our annual winter "clip shows". Today we present part two of two FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT compilations, starring JEFF BRIDGES, KEN POMEROY, JOHN C. REILLY, ELIZABETH STOKES (THE BETHS), JASON FALKNER (BECK, ST. VINCENT), SEAN ONO LENNON, ERIC PULIDO (MIDLAKE), SWAMP DOGG, and S.G. GOODMAN.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

This year Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, and The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz returns to the podcast to talk about The List of RSD titles now posted up at RecordStoreDay.com, and explain why Bruno Mars is the perfect choice for 2026 Record Store Day Ambassador.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

This year Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, and The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com. 

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Every week, Paul asks his guests the familiar musical question, "What was the first record you ever bought in a record shop with your own money." For several seasons, we've been culling a few of the most interesting responses for our annual winter "clip shows". Today we present part one of two FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT compilations, starring DARYL HALL, BASIA BULAT, SUNNY WAR, BOB MOULD, STUART MURDOCH (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), KETCH SECOR (OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW), AMY BERG (JEFF BUCKLEY FILM DIRECTOR), MATT PIUCCI (RAIN PARADE), and SEAN NELSON (HARVEY DANGER.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Just announced, this year's Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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Courtney Marie Andrews joins us to discuss her brand new album Valentine (Loose Future/Thirty Tigers), which finds the critically-acclaimed songwriter, poet (and fine art painter) expounding on themes of loss, obsession and the stunningly beautiful "record in pursuit of love" (her ninth!) which she co-produced largely "live-to-tape" with Jerry Bernhardt. 

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Just announced, this year's Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift returns to our program to peel back the layers on her most recent album, The Resurrection Game, a collection of moody and gorgeous original compositions released late last year on the independent Tiny Ghost Records label she co-founded and manages with her partner, Robyn Hitchcock. You may recall Swift last joined us to talk about Blonde On The Tracks, her collection of Bob Dylan covers, and in our conversation she drops news of yet another tribute album, this time featuring the songs of Lou Reed, to be released later in the year. 

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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New Zealand indie pop group The Beths just released their fourth album, Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti records) and songwriter frontperson Elizabeth Stokes is here to talk about it.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

Didn't find everything on your RSD lists? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com. 

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In our first episode of 2026, the legendary UK record producer, remixer, and dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood reflects on his fourth solo studio effort, The Collapse of Everything, released last summer on his On-U Sound label.

He explains how the album's melodic, contemplative sonic headspace balances modern plugin technology with the raw, "breathing" energy of live performances. He also talks about many of his collaborators like Doug Wimbish and Brian Eno, but also dear departed cohorts such as Keith LeBlanc, Mark Stewart, and Lee "Scratch" Perry.

Over his five-decade career, Sherwood has become synonymous with a distinctive "sound-scientist" approach to the mixing desk, most notably associated with the groundbreaking projects African Head Charge, the industrial-funk powerhouse Tackhead,  rhythmic explorers Dub Syndicate, and the seminal roots-dub band Creation Rebel.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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Happy New Year from the Record Store Day Podcast!

As we hustle 2025 out the door, we give you one final holiday treat.

Actor John C. Reilly has made a name for himself in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, in the movie musical Chicago, and in comedy films like Step Brothers, Talladega Nights, and the cult comedy, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of rock music biopics. 

But in 2025, Reilly released two physical recordings as his enigmatic stage persona, Mister Romantic; the full album, What's Not To Love? And the recent RSD Black Friday 7 inch single "Dream A Little Dream Of Me," b/w "Paper Moon"

In this delightful conversation, Reilly explains the origins of his high concept persona, and reveals that musical theatre and the spreading of joy and love are his abiding passions. 

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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We're simply having a wonderful holiday special, and you're invited.

While music fans may be divided about the merits of Paul McCartney's enduring holiday offering "Wonderful Christmastime," it's hard to deny that the Holidays are always packed with new releases from both of his legendary bands. 2025 brought us both the latest installment in The Beatles Anthology albums (and the updated streaming series), plus two projects that shine a spotlight on Macca's other band, Wings.

One was a new triple LP compilation, WINGS: The Definitive Self-Titled Collection, and the other is a book, the oral history Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run, written by McCartney himself, and edited by our guest today, historian Ted Widmer, who talks about the process of working with McCartney and what he learned about the story of the ex-Beatle's overachieving second act.

And McCartney's current long-serving guitarist/bassist Brian Ray just got back from the band's worldwide Got Back Tour, and is here to share some of his insights about bringing the McCartney catalogue to life, Every Night. He also talks about some of his solo projects, including the recent RSD Black Friday double LP, Rock The Plaza, where Ray worked alongside legends like Paul Rodgers, Josh Homme, Alice Cooper, and Orianthi. 

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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Bestselling author Alan Light is here to unravel the enduring allure of Fleetwood Mac's monumental 1977 album, Rumours. In Light's comprehensive new book Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Light explores the album's transformation from a pop phenomenon to a cultural touchstone, and its unique ability to remain relevant in today's rapidly changing contemporary music scene.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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This episode is dedicated to Christine McVie and the late great Marty DiBergi.

Last week, Old Crow Medicine Show released their very first holiday album, OCMS XMAS (in stores now from Hartland Records). Front man, Ketch Secor is here to tell us why they covered his favorite Christmas song, John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," the influence of Bob Dylan's spiritual era, and why records and record stores are so vital at the holidays, and all year 'round!

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

Didn't get everything on your RSD Black Friday list? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com. 

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Midlake front man Eric Pulido talks to Paul about the band's just released sixth studio album, A Bridge To Far, and expounds on life in their hometown of Denton, Texas (Sly Stone's birthplace!), working with producer Sam Evian and guest vocalist Madison Cunningham, and adding horns to Midlake's already expansive pastoral soundscape.

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

Didn't get everything on your RSD Black Friday list? Maybe you'll find it on RSDMRKT.com. 

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Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 is this Friday, November 28th. This week's episode is the second of two special spotlights on a few of the featured titles from the Black Friday List, which is up now at RecordStoreDay.com.

This week, we welcome back Talking Heads drummer and co-founder Chris Frantz to unpack Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live a vinyl collection from Rhino Records exclusively for RSD Black Friday featuring a newly discovered demo by pre-Talking Heads group, The Artistics, plus eleven demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (with Tina Weymouth, Frantz and Byrne) recorded in 1975 and 1976. Chris even teases an upcoming Talking Heads project that will re-unite the group member once again.

And staying in a New York groove, Deee-Lite founding member Supa DJ Dmitry Brill is here to celebrate the release of The Very Best Of Deee-Lite, a double LP on de-groovy purple and orange splatter vinyl. Along the way, the Ukrainian born musician shares the funkadelic story of Deee-Lite's early NYC club days, complete with tales of Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Q-Tip, plus a most cherished classic rock album that Dmitry purchased at great expense back in the former Soviet Union. 

Finally, we mark the passing of Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025), and Stone Roses/Primal Scream bass player Gary "Mani" Mounfield (1962 -2025) the soul of "Madchester."

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

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Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 is coming up on November 28th.

This week and next week's episodes of the podcast will shine a spotlight on a few of the featured titles from the Black Friday List, which is up now at RecordStoreDay.com.

This week, we welcome back "The Jazz Detective,"  Zev Feldman, and while of course he brought along some super cool jazz titles from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bill Evans, and Yusef Lateef, he's also branching out into blues with B.B. King, and even D.C. hardcore punk, with a historically charged release from Bad Brains. Honestly, we could listen to Zev talk about his projects for days. 

And we'll play a sad train song for "Folk Hero" Todd Snider who passed away on November 14th. 

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

Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!