The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Every week, Paul asks his guests the familiar musical question, "What was the first record you ever bought in a record shop with your own money." For several seasons, we've been culling a few of the most interesting responses for our annual winter "clip shows". Today we present part one of two FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT compilations, starring DARYL HALL, BASIA BULAT, SUNNY WAR, BOB MOULD, STUART MURDOCH (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), KETCH SECOR (OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW), AMY BERG (JEFF BUCKLEY FILM DIRECTOR), MATT PIUCCI (RAIN PARADE), and SEAN NELSON (HARVEY DANGER.
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. 
Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.
 
Just announced, this year's Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com.
 
Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!
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Courtney Marie Andrews joins us to discuss her brand new album Valentine (Loose Future/Thirty Tigers), which finds the critically-acclaimed songwriter, poet (and fine art painter) expounding on themes of loss, obsession and the stunningly beautiful "record in pursuit of love" (her ninth!) which she co-produced largely "live-to-tape" with Jerry Bernhardt. 
 
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. 
Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.
Just announced, this year's Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18, save the date, and for the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com.
 
Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift returns to our program to peel back the layers on her most recent album, The Resurrection Game, a collection of moody and gorgeous original compositions released late last year on the independent Tiny Ghost Records label she co-founded and manages with her partner, Robyn Hitchcock. You may recall Swift last joined us to talk about Blonde On The Tracks, her collection of Bob Dylan covers, and in our conversation she drops news of yet another tribute album, this time featuring the songs of Lou Reed, to be released later in the year. 
 
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. 
Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com
 
Didn't find everything on your RSD lists? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com. 
 
Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

New Zealand indie pop group The Beths just released their fourth album, Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti records) and songwriter frontperson Elizabeth Stokes is here to talk about it.
 
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. 
Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com
 
Didn't find everything on your RSD lists? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com. 
 
Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

In our first episode of 2026, the legendary UK record producer, remixer, and dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood reflects on his fourth solo studio effort, The Collapse of Everything, released last summer on his On-U Sound label.
He explains how the album's melodic, contemplative sonic headspace balances modern plugin technology with the raw, "breathing" energy of live performances. He also talks about many of his collaborators like Doug Wimbish and Brian Eno, but also dear departed cohorts such as Keith LeBlanc, Mark Stewart, and Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Over his five-decade career, Sherwood has become synonymous with a distinctive "sound-scientist" approach to the mixing desk, most notably associated with the groundbreaking projects African Head Charge, the industrial-funk powerhouse Tackhead,  rhythmic explorers Dub Syndicate, and the seminal roots-dub band Creation Rebel.
 
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. 
Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com
 
Didn't find everything on your RSD lists? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com. 
 
Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!