The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Paul Myers

Record Stores Can't Save Your Life But They Can Give You A Better One.

  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Benjamin Booker, plus Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders) remembers Garth Hudson & The Band.

    It's been nearly eight years since today's guest Benjamin Booker released his critically acclaimed second album, Witness, but now he's back with a vengeance with his powerful new album Lower, in stores now, which he made in collaboration with producer Kenny Segal. Booker explains his long road to this highly personal collection of songs.

    And this past week marked the definitive "last waltz" for The Band with the passing of the last man standing, Garth Hudson. Long Ryders singer/guitarist Sid Griffin, author of Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes, is here to try and convey the monumental impact that Garth and The Band had on American music and around the world, particularly in light of our present Post-Chalamet Dylan Renaissance, 

    And a reminder, you can still help Musicares help the people who bring you the music by donating at Musicares.org/firerelief and if you're a music business professional in need, you may be eligible for assistance by emailing [email protected]

    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.

     

    Be kind to others, and to yourself, and don't forget to let your music keep you sane when times get tough.

     

    This episode is dedicated to Garth Hudson and Peter Yarrow.

    28 January 2025, 5:05 am
  • 39 minutes 56 seconds
    Pixies' Joey Santiago, plus Remembering David Lynch

    Pixies guitarist and founding member Joey Santiago is here to talk about their most recent album, The Night The Zombies Came (BMG) which is in stores now (where you can also pick up their amazing back catalogue and also Frank Black albums too).

    And Paul has a few words in memoriam for filmmaker, musician, and music lover David Lynch, who passed away last week. For Lynch, music was magic, and there was always magic in the air.

    And a reminder, you can still help Musicares help the people who bring you the music by donating at Musicares.org/firerelief and if you're a music business professional in need, you may be eligible for assistance by emailing [email protected]

    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.

     

    Be kind to others, and to yourself, and don't forget to let your records keep you sane when times get tough.

     

    This episode is dedicated to David Lynch (1946-2025):

     

    “Music is one of the most fantastic things, almost like fire, and water, and air (laughs). It’s like… it’s like a thing! And it does so much. It does a thing for the intellect. It does a thing for the emotions. Music can swell the heart ‘til it almost bursts! Tears of happiness flow out of your eyes. You can’t believe the beauty that comes. And it comes from these notes!"

     

    21 January 2025, 5:05 am
  • 55 minutes 17 seconds
    We Love You L.A. - Fran Healy on Travis's L.A. Times, and L.A. fire relief with Musicare's Laura Segura

    As apocapytic fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, we spoke with Laura Segura, Executive Director of Musicares.org about how you can help the people who bring you the music by donating at Musicares.org/firerelief , and how music business professionals get get assistance by emailing [email protected]

    And as the Scottish group Travis sets out on their first North American tour in 15 years, singer Fran Healy is here to talk about his challenges with life in Los Angeles and how they influenced Travis' recent album L.A. Times. 

    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.

     

    This episode is dedicated to Sam Moore of Sam & Dave

    And to the city of Los Angeles.

    14 January 2025, 5:05 am
  • 1 hour 1 second
    Jeff Parker, Julian Lage

    We hope you like innovative jazz-based electric guitarists, because our first episode of 2025 focuses on two of 'em. 

    Jeff Parker is here to talk about his recent jazz album for Nonesuch, The Way Out Of Easy, credited to Jeff Parker And The ETA IVtet. Parker talks about working with his L.A. based quartet, which features bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerose, and saxophone player, Josh Johnson, but we also look back at his highly musical time in the windy city of Chicago, where he first made a name for himself with groups such as Tortoise. 

    This episode gives us an excuse to reprise our interview with prodigious jazz guitarist Julian Lage discussing his RSD Exclusive release, Live In Los Angeles, that first ran as part of our RSD Black Friday 2024 coverage. 

    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.

    7 January 2025, 5:02 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    Celebrating The Tragically Hip (with Rob Baker and filmmaker Mike Downie)

    Paul goes home to Canada for Christmas, and the maple syrup is flowing. We close out 2024 with a snow-covered treat, a special celebration of Record Store Day Canada's Ambassadors for 2024, The Tragically Hip. Celebrating their 40th year, the band were the subject of a retrospective 4-part Amazon Prime documentary, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and a commemorative book, This Is Our Life. Paul chats with No Dress Rehearsal director Mike Downie (brother of The Hip's late lead singer Gord Downie), and then guitarist and founding member Rob Baker. There's even a (singing) cameo from Feist! If you love The Hip already, it's a celebration, if you don't know them, it's an education. Happy New 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)

     

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

     

    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.

     

    This episode dedicated to Jimmy Carter, Rock & Roll President (1924-2024)

    1 January 2025, 12:32 am
  • 1 hour 12 seconds
    Ben Folds

    This holiday season, the singer/songwriter, piano player, and all around musical overachiever Ben Folds released an album called Sleigher (in stores now from New West Records). It's not so much a "Ben Folds Christmas record" as it is a Ben Folds record set at Christmas. For this episode, which makes its debut on Christmas Eve, Paul chats with Ben about what went into the album, and detours into dogs, inflatable lawn Santas, the magic of Burt Bacharach, and what it means to be a human music maker in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 

    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)

     

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

     

    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.

     

    This episode is dedicated to The Replacements' Bob "Slim" Dunlap (1951-2024), and composer and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain (1951-2024) who both passed away while this show was being put together. 

     

    Merry Christmas (if you observe), and Happy Holidays in general from The Record Store Day Podcast, and remember, your local independent record store would love to see you over the holidays, and all year round! 

     

    24 December 2024, 5:05 am
  • 51 minutes 59 seconds
    Steve Perry Celebrates "The Season"

    As Christmas nears, we caught up with the legendary rock vocalist Steve Perry, a certified Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who first made his name as the former lead singer for Journey before going on to a successful solo career with era-defining '80s hits like "Oh Sherrie" and "Foolish Heart."

    The occasion for this chat is the release of Perry's Holiday themed album of sentimental standards, The Season 3 (his first for Dark Horse Records).

    Since Steve doesn't do many interviews, Paul seized the opportunity to ask Perry about singing for the late great Quincy Jones on "We Are The World," or the story behind Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" ending up in the finale of HBO's The Sopranos. Paul even made sure to ask Steve to weigh in on the whole Yacht Rock discourse. 

    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)

     

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

     

    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.

    17 December 2024, 5:05 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    Holiday Gift Ideas for Record Fans, Pt. 1: Robyn Hitchcock Returns, plus Ann Powers & Alison Fensterstock on How Women Made Music.

    Holiday Gift Ideas for Record Fans, Pt. 1

    As the holiday season gets into full swing, we feature two books (and one accompanying record) that would make great gifts for any record loving person in your life.

    The always fascinating Robyn Hitchcock returns to the RSD Pod to talk about his new memoir, 1967: How I Got There, And Why I Never Left, as well as his accompanying covers album, 1967: Vacations In The Past.

    NPR Music's Ann Powersalso returns, this time with Alison Fensterstock, editor of a great new anthology book How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

    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)

     

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

     

    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.

    10 December 2024, 8:32 pm
  • 55 minutes 4 seconds
    The dB's' Peter Holsapple & Will Rigby

    This year, The dB's (Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby, and Gene Holder) reissued their first two albums, Stands For deciBels and Repercussion (both from 1981) for the first time on vinyl via the emerging indie label Propeller Sound Recordings. To celebrate we invited Peter and Will to peel back the stories and songs within the grooves of these two seminal power pop/ indie rock/ jangle rock albums.

    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)

     

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

     

    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.

    3 December 2024, 5:01 am
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    RSD BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL, Pt. 2, The Edge (U2), John Densmore (The Doors), Julian Lage
    Record Store Day Black Friday is November 29, and as we ramp up to the big day we offer the first of two specials.

    Pt. 2 features The Edge from U2 discussing their RSD Exclusive How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb.

    Plus, The Doors' John Densmore on the 4 LP set, The Doors: Live In Detroit.

    And, Jazz guitarist Julian Lage on his Live In Los Angeles EP. 

    For more information about Record Store Day Black Friday (November 29) 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. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com)

     

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

     

    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.

    26 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 52 minutes 43 seconds
    RSD BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL, Pt. 1, Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)

    Record Store Day Black Friday is November 29, and as we ramp up to the big day we offer the first of two specials.

    Pt. 1 features Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, talking about the double album RENO ROAD, a collection of acoustic blues field recordings made with his longtime musical accomplice Jack Casady and released on Black Friday as an RSD Exclusive. In this conversation, Jorma recalls the heady times of the 1960s, and pays his respects to many of the fallen legends he's worked with over the years, including Paul Kantner, Janis Joplin, David Crosby, Phil Lesh, and even Jaco Pastorius.

    For more information about Record Store Day Black Friday (November 29) 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. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com)

     

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

     

    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.

     

    19 November 2024, 5:01 am
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