The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

80-year-old Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest living American songwriters, and he's just released a brand new album,  Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs Of Jimmy Webb (out now on the Sun Records label!), which finds him dusting off, rewriting, and recording a set of older songs that were pitched to legends but for various reasons, never recorded. Until now. He's joined by fellow greats such as...

Last week, EELS released their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened, and it's another in a long line of albums packed with songs that feature beautifully human, often broken, characters who flow from the eloquent and imaginative pen of songwriter  Mark Oliver Everett, better known as simply, E . E joins Paul to talk about the new songs, some old songs, his process, his life, and the many other human...

Welcome to Season 8 of The Record Store Day Podcast! Americana legend ​Buddy Miller ​ushers in  our eighth season to discuss ​his recently released album, Buddy Miller (New West Records). His first solo set in 15 years features guest appearances from  Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, The War & Treaty, Lee Ann Womack, Dan Penn,  and more. Along the way, our wide-ranging conversation covers Buddy's wor...

Singer/Songwriter Meg Lui  is here to talk about her long-awaited debut album, Instant Validation, which was co-produced by Sufjan Stevens for his own Asthmatic Kitty Records label .  Along the way, Meg talks about the Catskills community she shares with partner/collaborator Keenan O'Meara , musical theater, why she dropped out of Berklee, the constant risk of being slaves to our digital devices,...

One of the highlights on the new Michigander album, Over Before You Know It (in stores now via Totally Normal Records / Thirty Tigers) is a song called "Freaking Out." Michigander's  Jason Singer is here to explain why that song title aptly explains the last couple of years he's been having, and how he put it all back into the 10 insanely catchy tunes on his band's sophomore release.    The Record...

Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have just released their new album, OurHome , which finds Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero , who formed in Dublin, recording in Tokyo, Japan. They're here to talk about how heavy metal inspired their around the world journey, where it took them, and what they've taken home as a result.    The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, p...

Legendary blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is here with GA-20 guitarist and producer Matthew Stubbs to discuss their raging new collaboration, Blues Now (New West Records), which is out now at your local independent record store. Along the way, we talk about  Musselwhite's early days working in Chicago blues record stores, the so-called "Hillbilly Highway," and his hollywood connections...

Mike Campbell, the humble guitar hero from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakersd and co-writer of dozens of indelible classic rock hits, makes his RSD pod debut to unpack his new album, Mission Of Mercy , the fourth release from his band, The Dirty Knobs . Along the way, we also touch on the genius of Brian Wilson  and Campbell's work with Dylan, Petty, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley , and The B-52's Kate Pierso...

Happy September!  The recent return of Canadian national heroes Rush and the emergence of Quebec's Angine de Poitrine have made our Toronto-born host feel a little homesick, so we've invited media icon George "Strombo" Stroumboulopoulos for some cross-border rock talk about bands, records, concerts and our shared passion for music. The True North, Strombo and free - from the shores of Lake Ontario...

2026 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees Billy Idol & Steve Stevens talk about their 45-year brotherhood in rock, recorded live  on stage before a standing room only crowd at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans as Keynote speakers for Record Store Day Summer Camp 2026.   The  Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered , and hosted by Paul Myers , who also com...

Portland based singer/songwriter Laura Veirs discusses how a new relationship helped her regain full agency of her recording environment,  and how she  not only ​wrote  all of the delicate yet empowered songs on her stunning new album, Temple Songs, but she also played 99% of the instruments, put it out on her own label, and even built the studio herself . Veirs also shares details of the upcoming...

John Darnielle returns to talk about The Mountain Goats new album , Days , which just came out last week, but of course the conversation goes all over the place. We preview moments from the album, including the ongoing story behind the song "Candlebox," and how a fictional song inspired real life events. This was a fun chat.   The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produ...

Four-time Grammy® award-winning drummer, producer, educator, activist, and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington discusses the eclectic music and socially conscious words on Trip The Night Fantastic , the brand new album with her group,  Social Science (featuring Matthew Stevens, Aaron Parks, and Morgan Guerin ), that also features a jam-packed roster of hand-picked special guests including Miki H...

The highly literate British psych-folk pop rock raver  Robyn Hitchcock returns for his third RSD podcast appearance, this time to unveil his cracking new album, The Confuser (Tiny Ghost Records). Naturally, if you know Hitchcock, there are plenty of digressions into topics such as; people named "Roger," temporal literacy, trams and trolley buses, the polka dots of Angine de Poitrine, the culinary...

Today's guest, Lenny Kaye couldn't be more suited to The RSD Podcast. He's a celebrated author, guitarist, music journalist, and record producer, who has finally, after all this time, released his very first solo album ,  Goin' Local, out now from Yep Roc. In addition to his many decades as Patti Smith's guitarist and aide-de-camp, Lenny was also the architect of the highly influential 1972 garage...

Grammy-nominated North Carolinian singer/songwriter  Tift Merritt  returns to our podcast to discuss  Sugar (One Riot records), her first new album of original material in nearly a decade, but of course the conversation always goes much deeper than the record, which is why "T-Bird" is one of our favorite guests.     The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engine...

Omnivore Recordings co-founder Cheryl Pawelski celebrates Omnivore's 15 years of Grammy worthy re-issues and archival record projects. This fascinating conversation is peppered with plenty of fun facts and musical highlights .    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 interst...

Happy Independents Week! Legendary jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver is here to talk about this year's reissue of his first album as a bandleader, the 1968 set Charles Tolliver All Stars: Right Now... And Then , (which was reissued for this year's Record Store Day, and which features a stellar backing lineup that includes Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and Gary Bartz ), and the legacy of...

In his incredible new music biography, Where The Music Had To Go , author Jim Windolf explores the parallel careers of two of the most influential artists of the post rock & roll era, Bob Dylan and The Beatles . He's here to explain why Bob is more like a Beatle than a Rolling Stone.    For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, v isit RecordStoreDay.co m   The Record Store Day Podcast is...

The Me That Remains isn't just the first original  Amy Grant album in 13 years, produced by Mac MacAnally, it's a deeply intimate, stripped-down, folk-pop reflection on survival, aging, and reconstruction, heavily shaped by a series of profound, recent life-altering health events including a severe 2022 bicycle accident that left this multiple Grammy winner and Kennedy Center honoree with a trauma...

Last year, the legendary post-punk collective Mekons released HORROR (Fire Records), their first new album in five years. They've just released a dub remix version of songs from that record, entitled HORRORble (Mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) and founding member Jon Langford is here with longtime bandmate Sally Timms for their Record Store Day Podcast debut ​ to unpack the new mixes and...

Happy June! When we first had  Sean Ono Lennon on the show we discussed his loving curation and restoration of the work of his famous parents, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. This time he's back to finally talk about his own music, made in collaboration with  Les Claypool (Primus). In this timely chat about a not-too-distant future, we unpack ( unclip? ) The Great Parrot Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy ,...

Greatest Hits Records & Books in Media, PA, is where our guests, Stu Eli, Jesse Gennett, and Dom Glisson cooked up the idea to record and release an "audio time capsule" of the sounds of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a/k/a "Delco." The result is the 92-track album,  The Sounds Of Delco, Vol. 1, a light-hearted but affectionate nod to their region and to the used sound effects records that wash up...

Filmmaker Adria Petty and music producer/engineer Ryan Ulyate have a deeply personal interest in maintaining the high musical and moral standards set by the late Tom Petty. In the afterglow of the highly successful Record Store Day release of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Live At The Paradise Rock Club, recorded in 1978 by Boston's WCBN radio, Adria and Ryan are here to talk about the Petty Estat...

Castle Rat is a self-described "medieval fantasy metal band" led by our guest, Riley Pinkerton . In her stage persona as "The Rat Queen," Pinkerton is a sword-wielding heroine on a mission to expand and defend 'The Realm' from those who seek to destroy it. Off stage, she's a friendly, glue-gun wielding creative arts kid, firmly grounded in the real world. She's here to talk about the band's most r...