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...

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,...

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 S...

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 stu...

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...

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 wr...

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...

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, a...

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...

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 w...

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 Pain...

"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 wit...

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-lockdo...

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 '90...

Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th.  F or 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...

Neil Finn r eturns 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...

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...

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 wi...

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...

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...

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  i...

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 He...

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 (...

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...

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...