Girls, put your records on…
This Saturday, April 18th, 2009, is Record Store Day and wax dealers everywhere are celebrating with live in stores and giveaways. If there’s a record store near you, you’re invited to the celebration! Visit the Record Store Day website HERE to see what’s going on this Saturday near you!
Record Store Day was founded in 2007 as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
This Saturday, give your local record store some love by buying a record or two! And since it’s Jazz Appreciation Month, why not a jazz album?
I recommend:
The LP reissue of Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby by Dorothy Ashby
The LP reissue of Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby by Dorothy Ashby
Incredible work from amazing jazz harpist, Dorothy Ashby. This album is a brilliant set of funky and spiritual tunes, set to full back. It is easily one of Ashby’s greatest.
Listen to a track off that album below. Along with her beautiful harping, we experience Ashby’s warm voice on this track as well.
After the jump, we put you on to a Record Store Day 45 Record Giveaway by one of our favorite labels, Daptone Records (of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings fame), at a dig near you!
