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.

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!

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

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!

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

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Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy from Canadian alt-rock legends SLOAN return to the Record Store Day Podcast to talk about the recent release of Sloan's 14th studio album, Based On The Best Seller, in stores now on the Yep Roc and Murderecords labels. We unpack some of the key tracks on the LP, with Chris & Jay elaborating on what it's like to be closing in on 35 years playing together in the band, and why they feel it still works.

RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 28, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com.

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Rodney Crowell discusses his new album, Airline Highway. The legendary Houston-born singer, songwriter and guitarist first moved to Nashville in 1972, where he kicked off his stellar 50+ year career which includes stints as a key member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band, and later as producer, collaborator and one-time husband of Rosanne Cash. The new album follows on the heels of his Grammy nominated 2023 album, The Chicago Sessions (with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy).

Airline Highway features guests such as Ashley McBryde, Lukas Nelson, Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant, and Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr.

RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com.

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Before Paul went away on his own book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy, he conducted a few interviews with authors who have just published fantastic music biographies. We'll be featuring some of them while Paul is out on the road.

This week, a reprise of Paul's conversation with Warren Zanes, author of Deliver Me From Nowhere, about the making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album, which has just been reissued as the five-disc Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition. Zanes' book was also the basis for the feature film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, in theatres now!

RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com.

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Before Paul went away on his own book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy, he conducted a few interviews with authors who have just published fantastic music biographies. We'll be featuring some of them while Paul is out on the road.

This week, acclaimed Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick discusses his new and extensively researched book, The Colonel And The King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World which takes a fresh look at the complex relationship between Presley and his colorful manager Colonel Tom.

RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com.

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Before Paul went away on his own two-week book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy (out now!), he conducted a few interviews with other authors who have just published fantastic biographies of some of the people who make the records. We'll feature two of these over the next two weeks.

This week, Bill Janovitz returns to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, entitled Let The Stories Be Told. You may know Bill from his own band, Buffalo Tom, and this is his visit to our show, he was last here to discuss his equally definitive previous book, Leon Russell.

RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com.

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Welcome to our 200th episode of The Record Store Day Podcast and the beginning of our seventh season!

This week, we delve into the history of the fabled "Paisley Underground" music scene with California's coolest, jangliest and trippiest band, Rain Parade. Co-founder Matt Piucci is here to talk about their influential sound, and such perennial Record Store Day favorite reissues as Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, and Crashing Dream, and more.

And speaking of Record Store Day, Paul gives us a few highlights from his initial perusal of the RSD Black Friday 2025 List which dropped last week. (Black Friday is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com)

We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself.

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!

Todd Rundgren returns to our program, this time as the Keynote Speaker at Record Store Day Summer Camp 2025, in New Orleans, this past July. This wide-ranging interview with our host Paul Myers (author of A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio), was recorded onstage in the packed ballroom of NOLA's fabulous Hotel Monteleone and introduced by RSD's Carrie Colliton.

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!