Remembering Ozzy (1948-2025) with writer Sylvie Simmons, and Women In Vinyl's Jenn D'Eugenio
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
On July 22, 2025, we lost Birmingham-born rock vocalist and cultural icon Ozzy Osbourne, rock's "prince of darkness," at the age of 76. His death, from complications due to Parkinson's Disease, ends a career spanning five decades, in which he pioneered an entire subgenre of heavy metal music, as frontman for Black Sabbath, before going on to an even bigger career as a solo artist, where he is credited for introducing the guitarist Randy Rhoads to the wider rock world, and for creating the wildly popular Ozzfest tours. Then, when he'd done it all, he and members of his family, Jack, Kelly, and...
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Chris Stamey
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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, including The Lemon Twigs, Pat Sansone (Wilco), Marshall Crenshaw, and many more. Lately, Chris has been...
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Daryl Hall
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 records like Sacred Songs (with King Crimson's Robert Fripp) and last year's D album, a collaboration...
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Filmmaker Mark Romanek's Music Video Legacy
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 week's Special Episode, we take a detour from chats with musical artists and record producers to talk...
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Ken Pomeroy
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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North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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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S.G. Goodman
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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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James McMurtry
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 Returns!
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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...
info_outlineKentucky 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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