Get your wish lists ready! The 11th annual Record Store Day is just a little over a month away, and there are several country releases you do not want to miss out on!
- Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare‘s Things Change. Released last year, the album was Bare’s first studio project in five years. The RSD Exclusive release includes an opaque white vinyl with vintage photographs.
- Port Saint Joe may be releasing everywhere on April 20th, but the Brothers Osborne RSD Exclusive Release will feature a translucent green vinyl and limited edition t-shirt.
- Not one, but two Johnny Cash RSD Releases.
- Eric Church‘s 61 Days In Church – Covers RSD Exclusive Release features eight cover songs recorded during Church’s legendary 2017 tour.
- Charlie Daniels’ Memories, Memoirs & Miles; Songs of a Lifetime RSD Exclusive Release includes a white and smoke gray vinyl, vintage photographs and handwritten lyrics
- Lady Antebellum‘s very first, and very limited, RSD Release: a red 7″ vinyl featuring three songs off their latest album Heart Break.
Click below for details on each of the releases above and others:
Artist — Album — Label — Format — Quantities Available — Release Type
Bobby Bare — Things Change — BFD — LP — 1500 — RSD Exclusive
Brothers Osborne — Port Saint Joe — EMI Nashville — LP — 1500 — RSD Exclusive
John Carter Cash — We Must Believe In Magic — Reviver Records — CD — 1500 — RSD Exclusive
Johnny Cash — At Folsom Prison: 50th Anniversary Elegacy Edition — Legacy — 5xLP — 2500 — RSD Exclusive
Johnny Cash — I Love You Because / You’re The Nearest Thing To Heaven — Charly — 7″ — N/A — “RSD First”
Eric Church — 61 Days In Church – Covers — EMI Nashville — LP — 2500 — RSD Exclusive
Charlie Daniels — Memories, Memoirs & Miles: Songs Of A Lifetime — CDC Records — 2xLP — 1500 — RSD Exclusive
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Live From The Continental Club — E-Squared — 2xLP — 2000 — RSD Exclusive
Lady Antebellum — Heart Break — Capitol Nashville — 7″ — 500 — RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
Lou Reed & Kris Kristofferson — The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words: With Vin Scelsa — The Bottom Line Records — 12″ Picture Disc — 1000 — RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives — Way Out West – Desert Suite (Trip One) — Superlatone Recordings — 12″ — 1200 — RSD Exclusive
For those who may not be familiar with RSD, it’s a day to celebrate the world’s independent record stores as vinylphiles can shop for (or in some cases fight over) special releases of vinyl records ranging from limited edition re-releases to new live albums, singles, picture discs, previously unreleased demos, and more. Most are released in quantities of 3,000 or less across the country (hence the fighting) and not all stores carry every record offered. For the serious fans, it’s become a bit of a yearly quest, from getting the list as soon as its available, figuring out what he or she wants and then figuring out how to get them. Participating annually allows one to build up a strategy of becoming friendly with your local record store to help your odds at finding the coveted pieces of wax (which also in turns helps the record industry from disappearing into oblivion).
For more information on Record Store Day, visit http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
For the list of all RSD 2018 releases, visit http://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases