Our guest Chris Stamey's new album is called Anything Is Possible , and during long and fruitful musical career, he's done just about everything. As a founding member of The dB's he helped define an era of 1970s indie rock and power pop, and his solo work (and duo work with his fellow dB Peter Holsapple) only widened his songwriting vocabulary. Among the distinguished guests joining Stamey on Anything Is Possible are another NC music legend Mitch Easter, plus some friends of the podcast, includi...
Jul 22, 2025•57 min•Season 6Ep. 189
Daryl Hall has been one of the most identifiable voices and songwriters on records and radios for over half a century and he's still doing it. As the lead singer and principal songwriter in Hall & Oates he had a string of hits (quite a few of them co-written with Sara and Janna Allen) that included "She's Gone," "Sara Smile," "Rich Girl," "One on One," "I Can't Go For That," "Make My Dreams (Come True)," "Private Eyes," "Out of Touch," and more. And as a solo artist he's made landmark record...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 188
Filmmaker Mark Romanek's early love of cinema not only lead him to early acclaim at Sundance for his 1986 film Static , but his later award-winning feature films like One Hour Photo (2002), and Never Let Me Go (2010). But it also lead him to become one of the most prolific and identifiable auteurs of the 1990's music video boom, with a client list that includes Jay-Z, Beck, Fiona Apple, Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, and even Johnny Cash. In this w...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 6Ep. 187
Ken Pomeroy is a 22-year-old Oklahoma born singer songwriter whose songs have wide open spaces where animals and memories run wild. Her Cherokee name, ᎤᏍᏗ ᏀᏯ ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎤᏍᏗᎦ , roughly translates to "little wolf," and on her recent album, Cruel Joke (in stores now from Rounder Records) you can hear the influence of her Native American heritage in the natural images of her songs like "Coyote," "Wolf In Sheep's Clothing," and "Cicadas," (featuring John Moreland) the latter of which was recently featured ...
Jul 01, 2025•56 min•Season 6Ep. 186
It's been 25 years since North Mississippi Allstars, the ever-evolving collective formed by Luther and Cody Dickinson (sons of the late great Memphis musician and record producer, Jim Dickinson), recorded their debut album, Shake Hands with Shorty . This month, they released their 12th album, Still Shakin' (New West Records), and Luther (a one time member of The Black Crowes who got his first studio credit playing on The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me ) is here to talk about all of it. The Rec...
Jun 24, 2025•47 min•Season 6Ep. 185
Kentucky born-and-raised singer songwriter S.G. Goodman makes her Record Store Day Podcast debut to discuss her hauntingly catchy third album , Pl anting By The Sign s , in stores June 20 from Slough Water Records/Thirty Tigers. And Paul has a few words on the passing of one of his musical heroes, Brian Wilson (1942-2025) the mastermind of the Beach Boys who died on June 11, at the age of 82. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Pau...
Jun 17, 2025•51 min•Season 6Ep. 184
Austin, Texas songwriting legend James McMurty talks about his latest release, a 10-song, Don Dixon produced long player called The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy (in stores June 20, from New West Records). In the course of previewing the album, our conversation touches on names like Dixon, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Betty Soo, Sarah Jarosz, Ken Kesey, and James' father, the legendary Texas writer, Larry McMurty. James is a man of few words, but none of them are lies. The Record Store Da...
Jun 10, 2025•56 min•Season 6Ep. 183
Benmont Tench, founding keyboard player from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, returns to our program to talk about his recently released second solo album, The Melancholy Season, in stores now from Dark Horse Records. He shares what he has learned about making records from his various producers from Denny Cordell, Jimmy Iovine, Rick Rubin, and Glyn Johns, to his recent sessions with Jonathan Wilson. Along the way, Tench reveals intimate details of recovery and healing, and of his development a...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 182
Grace Potter makes her Record Store Day Podcast debut to talk about her new album that is actually seventeen years old. In 2008, the Vermont-born, singer songwriter, and front person for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, collaborated with the legendary T-Bone Burnett on a solo departure called Medicine , featuring Burnett and a crew of side players including Jim Keltner, Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, and Keefus Ciancia. It was a solid set and a bold personal statement but, at the time, Hollywood R...
May 27, 2025•52 min•Season 6Ep. 181
For decades, the innovative guitarist Marc Ribot has been a first-call session musician, lending his singular instrumental voice to recordings by Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett and many more. On his brand new album, Map Of A Blue City (New West Records), Ribot adds his actual voice to the music for his first ever vocal album, one that took roughly 30 years to finally see the light of day. In our conversation, he talks about working with the late, great Hal Willner ...
May 20, 2025•50 min•Season 6Ep. 180
Zev Feldman, a/k/a "The Jazz Detective," returns to our show to talk about a newly released 1980 live set from the late great alto sax legend, Art Pepper, An Afternoon In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (Elemental Music), plus a little about his work on the recent sold out Record Store Day Release from Patsy Cline: Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963). The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the the...
May 13, 2025•45 min•Season 6Ep. 179
Singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, and A&R man Swamp Dogg has done it all in his 65 plus years in the music business. Starting out in West Virginia in the 1950s, as "Little" Jerry Williams, he blazed a trail across the country with stops in Nashville, and finally his funky home in Los Angeles, which is the setting for the great new documentary, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted . Swamp spoke to us about the film, and about his long, illustrious and, at times notorious, c...
May 06, 2025•52 min•Season 6Ep. 178
"The Basher" himself, Nick Lowe returns to the Record Store Day Podcast to talk about his recent records with Los Straitjackets, including this year's RSD First Release live disc, (Not) Indoor Safari Vol. 1. But while we've got, we get the esteemed songwriter and record producer to go crate digging through his expansive back catalogue of recorded work to share some personal stories of working with The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, John Hiatt, The Damned, Ry Cooder, Graham Parker, and more. The Rec...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 177
Songwriter Lilly Hiatt recently released a cracking new set called Forever (New West Records) that her friend and fan Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) describes as "a killer album." Patterson is certainly right about that. Lilly makes her RSD Podcast debut to discuss, among other things, working at home with her husband Coley Hinson, long distance remote mixing with Paul Kolderie, post-lockdown isolation, her famous songwriting father, and the long road to Forever . The Record Store Day Podcas...
Apr 22, 2025•47 min•Season 6Ep. 176
With Record Store Day 2025 in the books, we continue to feature some of the talented recording artists who make the records; and this week we have one of the all-time greats. Bob Mould has enjoyed a long and illustrious career in which he has frequently been the guitarist and singer fronting superb rock trios, starting in Minnesota with the seminal '80s indie band Hüsker Dü, and Sugar in the '90s. Bob has continued to record as a solo singer/songwriter who consistently delivers edgy and emotiona...
Apr 15, 2025•41 min•Season 6Ep. 175
Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) In the last installment of our month-long Record Store Day 2025 preview series, we meet the members of L.A. band, Wallows (Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston) in anticipation of their RSD First Release, the MORE EP (Atlantic Records). The trio share their backstory, how they came to work with producer John Congleton, and duet with Clairo. And 25 y...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 174
Neil Finn returns to our program to talk about the impending vinyl debut of Neil Finn: Sessions At West 54th , a Record Store Day Exclusive release (on two LPs), with 16 tracks from the popular PBS live music program of the same name, hosted by David Byrne and featuring songs from Finn's debut solo album Try Whistling This , plus a few Crowded House and Split Enz faves. While we've got him, Neil catches us up on last year's critically-acclaimed Crowded House album, Gravity Stairs , and shares a ...
Apr 01, 2025•44 min•Season 6Ep. 173
Sean Ono Lennon joins us to discuss his production of the RSD release Power To The People, a 4-song live EP by John Lennon & Yoko Ono that Sean produced from recordings made at his parents' 1972 One To One concert in New York. That concert is the subject of a new documentary, One To One: John & Yoko, directed by acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Kevin McDonald, which hits IMAX screens on April 11. And musical everyman Jason Falkner (Beck, Air, and St. Vincent) discusses the story behind his s...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 6Ep. 172
Musician and Oscar winning actor Jeff Bridges joins us to unpack his Record Store Day 2025 release, Slow Magic 1977-1978 (Light In The Attic Records), in a wide-ranging musical conversation that finds Bridges recalling moments from his entire career. "The Dude" (from The Big Lebowski ) abides us with tales of his famous acting family (father Lloyd, mother Dorothy, and brother Beau), growing up with Bonnie Raitt, and his award winning work with T Bone Burnett (producer of the Crazy Heart soundtra...
Mar 18, 2025•56 min•Season 6Ep. 171
Sunny War (a/k/a Sydney Ward) has lived through quite a few of her nine lives, rising out of substance abuse and poverty on the strength of her musical talent and finely tuned wit. She joins us to discuss her recently released album Armageddon In A Summer Dress (New West Records) which reunites her with her Anarchist Gospel producer Andrija Tokic, and features guests like Steve Ignorant (from the legendary Crass), Tre Burt, Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), and friends of our show, John Doe and Valeri...
Mar 11, 2025•51 min•Season 6Ep. 170
North Carolina band, Rainbow Kitten Surprise are re-issuing their 2015 album RKS for Record Store Day (April 12) as an expanded double album featuring nine previously unreleased demo tracks, and pressed on rainbow tricolor vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. We speak with singer Ela Melo about the history of her band, their roots, and the way they make their music. And guitarist Steve Conte returns to the program to remember David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman (and erstwhile Buster Poindexter) w...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 169
Montreal-based Basia Bulat has been nominated five times for Canada's prestigious Juno Awards, and is a three time finalist for the coveted Polaris Music Prize. She just released her seventh album, Basia's Palace (Secret City Records) (which she co-produced with Mark Lawson) mixed by Tucker Martine (Neko Case, The National), with string arrangements by Drew Jurecka. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed ...
Feb 27, 2025•44 min•Season 6Ep. 168
While we're on a brief hiatus from making all-new episodes, we thought it would be fun to compile all the moments where Paul asks his guests "What Was The First Record You Ever Bought?" and put them in a couple of "clip shows." Last week was part one, so here's part two, featuring Shannon Shaw (from Shannon & The Clams), Joey Santiago (from Pixies), Julian Lage, Steve Perry, Slash, The Heavy Heavy, Ben Folds, John Densmore (The Doors), and bass ace Tony Levin (King Crimson, John Lennon and m...
Feb 18, 2025•35 min•Season 6Ep. 167
While we're on a brief hiatus from making all-new episodes, we thought it would be fun to compile all the moments where Paul asks his guests "What Was The First Record You Ever Bought?" and put them in a couple of "clip shows." Here's part one, featuring De La Soul, Dhani Harrison, Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance (from Superchunk), Ringo Starr, Shelby Lynne, Redd Kross, NPR's Ann Powers, The Edge (from U2), Richard Thompson, and Matthew Caws (from Nada Surf). The Record Store Day Podcast is a...
Feb 11, 2025•38 min•Season 6Ep. 166
Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch is here to discuss his new semi-autobiographical novel, Nobody's Empire , his struggles with chronic fatigue, and how his band saved his life. And we take a minute to pay our respects to Marianne Faithfull, the enigmatic legend who passed away on January 30th. 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 (f...
Feb 04, 2025•49 min•Season 6Ep. 165
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 G...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 164
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...
Jan 21, 2025•40 min•Season 6Ep. 163
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 musicaresrelief@musicares.org 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 inf...
Jan 14, 2025•55 min•Season 6Ep. 162
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 m...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 161
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 Rehearsa l director Mike Downie (brother of The Hip's late lead singer G...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 6Ep. 160
