Record Store Day 2024?


 

I don’t know what percentage of AG members participate in RSD, but I figure the topic warrants a thread.

The RSD titles offered this time (April 20th) seemed pretty strong to me, and I was apparently not alone in that opinion: when I arrived at Music Millennium at 6:00 A.M. the line went down Burnside Blvd. from 32nd Avenue to 29th, over one block, and then up the street behind the store all the way back to 32nd, all in attendance waiting for the 8:00 A.M. opening of the store. Over a thousand people I reckon, more than the 6:00 A.M. line at last year’s Black Friday RSD. And when I exited the store at 11:00, the line still stretched from 32nd down to 29th.

This years titles as always included offerings in many genres, my list below merely reflecting my musical tastes. Here are the albums I decided I didn’t want to live without:

 

- The Bottle Rockets: The Brooklyn Side. Expanded 2-LP set, lacquers cut from analogue master tapes at Masterdisk by Scott Hull. 1500 copies worldwide.

- Gene Clark: The Lost Studio Sessions 1964-1982. 2-LP set containing unreleased studio and live recordings. 1500 copies.

- Lowell George: Thanks I’ll Eat It Here. Expanded 2-LP set, lacquers cut from analogue master tapes by Bernie Grundman. 3500 copies.

- Chris Isaak: Beyond The Sun. Expanded 2-LP set containing every song Chris and his band recorded at Sun Studios. 2000 copies.

- Tommy McLain: Moving To Heaven. Recorded in 2003 and pressed as 500 CD’s, Elvis Costello discovered this album in a used record store down in Louisiana. 1000 copies.

- The Ramones: The 1975 Sire Demos. These recordings led to the boys getting a deal with Sire Records. 6000 copies.

- Mavis Staples: Have A Little Faith. 20th anniversary reissue of the Alligator Records original. 2500 copies.

- Television: Live At the Academy NYC 12.4.92. 2500 copies.

- Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Live In France/The 1966 Concert In Limoges. Just Rosetta and her white Gibson SG, tearin’ up the joint! 1800 copies.

 

And my pick-of-the-litter:

- Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman with Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives: Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. The two living Byrds perform the entire album and other songs live, aided by the best band in the world. Unfortunately also the most expensive of the lot: $79.99 for a 2-LP set?! 2500 copies.

 

 

bdp24

@tomic601 

Funny you mentioned Ragged But Right. I just listened to it a week-ten days ago. I started collecting Jerry Garcia music years ago and somehow never heard it before.  Looks like I’ll be buying the CD soon.😁

@bdp24 Yep… I’ve a wonderful sounding MoFi 45 rpm of American Beauty… possibly my fave Dead album….

@curiousjim Glad to hear that ;-) enjoy.

My fave bluegrass album is Chris Thile, Yo Yo Ma, and Edgar Meyer playing Bach trios. Very early bluegrass...gotta love them 18th century German hillbillies.

 

@wolf_garcia: J.S. Bach is my favorite composer, Baroque my favorite Classical period, Bluegrass my favorite Pop genre these days. Have you also heard the Goat Rodeo album? It’s Thile, Meyer, and Ma, along with Stuart Duncan on Fiddle. A 2-LP set on Sony Records.

Another of my favorite Bluegrass albums is Wires & Wood by The Johnny Staats Project. Johnny is an excellent mandolin player (and a decent singer), and on this album he is provided musical accompaniment by a who’s who of Bluegrass musicians and singers: John Cohan on upright bass, Tim O’Brien, Sam Bush, and Tammy Rogers on fiddle, Scott Vestal on banjo, Jim Hurst on guitar, and Jerry Douglas on dobro (one of my very favorite guitarists), along with Kathy Mattea, Jon Randall, and Sara Evans on harmony vocals. A perfect album! Released in 2000 on CD only.

 

Reading the the post it seems like I don’t know most of the artist except Kathy Mathea. I just wait for some old records reissue. Music direct has plenty of used vynil in their building. Acoustic sounds as well very expensive.