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Memphis: Rob Bowman on Stax Records, plus Eric Friedl and Zac Ives from Goner Records.

Memphis: Rob Bowman on Stax Records, plus Eric Friedl and Zac Ives from Goner Records.

FromThe Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers


Memphis: Rob Bowman on Stax Records, plus Eric Friedl and Zac Ives from Goner Records.

FromThe Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Jul 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Let's go to Memphis in the meantime, baby!   Our featured interview is with Rob Bowman, the Toronto based academic scholar and Grammy Award-winning professor of ethnomusicology. Notably, Rob is a recognized authority on Stax Records, and has produced numerous Stax box sets in addition to writing an exhaustively researched book, Soulsville USA: The Story of Stax Records. He is also an executive producer and main source for Jamila Wignot's fantastic four part HBO Max documentary series, STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.   We also speak with Eric Friedl and Zac Ives from contemporary Memphis record store, Goner Records, who tell us about their store, their label, and their annual fall festival, Gonerfest.   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)   Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (dogfish.com), Tito's Handmade Vodka (titosvodka.com), RSDMRKT.com, and Furnace Record Pressing, the official vinyl pressing plant of Record Store Day.   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.  
Released:
Jul 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.