Benjamin Booker, plus Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders) remembers Garth Hudson & The Band.
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
Release Date: 01/28/2025
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 in Sterlin Harjo's milestone Hulu series, Reservation Dogs. The...
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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 Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and...
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Kentucky born-and-raised singer songwriter S.G. Goodman makes her Record Store Day Podcast debut to discuss her hauntingly catchy third album, Planting By The Signs, 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 Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. ...
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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 Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers,...
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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 as a songwriter in the shadow of esteemed colleagues such as Petty and Mike Campbell, and in sessions...
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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 Records shelved the album indefinitely to concentrate on furthering her work with the Nocturnals. But...
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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 (who worked on the early stages of ...Blue City), the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, and why Tom Waits is...
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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 theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store...
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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, career including his countrified album from last year, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th...
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"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 Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by...
info_outlineIt'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,
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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.
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This episode is dedicated to Garth Hudson and Peter Yarrow.