Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick on "The Colonel And The King."
Before Paul went away on his own book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy, he conducted a few interviews with authors who have just published fantastic music biographies. We'll be featuring some of them while Paul is out on the road. This week, acclaimed Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick discusses his new and extensively researched book, The Colonel And The King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World which takes a fresh look at the complex relationship between Presley and his colorful manager Colonel Tom. RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com. We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself. 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  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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Author Bill Janovitz on The Cars
Before Paul went away on his own two-week book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy (out now!), he conducted a few interviews with other authors who have just published fantastic biographies of some of the people who make the records. We'll feature two of these over the next two weeks. This week, Bill Janovitz returns to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, entitled Let The Stories Be Told. You may know Bill from his own band, Buffalo Tom, and this is his visit to our show, he was last here to discuss his equally definitive previous book, Leon Russell. RSD Black Friday 2025 is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com. We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself. 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  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! Â
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Season 7 debut with Rain Parade, plus a peek at the RSD Black Friday 2025 List
Welcome to our 200th episode of The Record Store Day Podcast and the beginning of our seventh season! This week, we delve into the history of the fabled "Paisley Underground" music scene with California's coolest, jangliest and trippiest band, Rain Parade. Co-founder Matt Piucci is here to talk about their influential sound, and such perennial Record Store Day favorite reissues as Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, and Crashing Dream, and more. And speaking of Record Store Day, Paul gives us a few highlights from his initial perusal of the RSD Black Friday 2025 List which dropped last week. (Black Friday is November 25, see the whole list at RecordStoreDay.com) We'll be talking more about it as we get closer to the day itself. 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  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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Todd Rundgren Keynote Interview from RSD Summer Camp 2025 (Recorded Live in New Orleans)
Todd Rundgren returns to our program, this time as the Keynote Speaker at Record Store Day Summer Camp 2025, in New Orleans, this past July. This wide-ranging interview with our host Paul Myers (author of A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio), was recorded onstage in the packed ballroom of NOLA's fabulous Hotel Monteleone and introduced by RSD's Carrie Colliton. 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  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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Lady Wray
Lady Wray is here, on the eve of releasing her new album Cover Girl (Big Crown Records), to talk about her ongoing journey to find herself, and how friends, family, and producer Leon Michels, helped her bring this soulful and deeply personal music into sharper focus. 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  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! Â
About The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
From the people who created Record Store Day, The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers is an informative, record store-centric interview show featuring conversations with great guests talking about records, record stores and experiences in the physical retail space.
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