Record Store Day 2011: Saturday, April 16

It’s almost here! The fourth annual Record Store Day! I’m so very excited. For those of you who are unfamiliar the website has a great description:

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. Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.

(image from Record Store Day 2009 at Vertigo Music)
I first attended in 2009 at Vertigo Music in Grand Rapids and it was spectacular. There was indeed cookouts, free Founders beer, live in-store performances, and an all-out, all-day party. I will be heading to the party at Vertigo again this year and have made a wish-list (in alpha-order). I’m pretty sure I won’t get them all, either because they’re not available or because my budget will be shot, but I can dream.

Eric Clapton & John Mayall
Lonely Years, 1965, 7” vinyl
tracks: “Lonely Years” / “Bernard Jenkins”

Brett Dennen
B Side to the D Side, 7” vinyl
tracks: “Sydney (I’ll Come Running)” first single off new album Loverboy / “Alone Again” (Non Album Track)

Derek & The Dominos
7” vinyl
tracks: “Got To Get Better In A Little While” / ”Layla”

Justin Townes Earle
Move Over Mama, 7” vinyl
tracks: “Move Over Mama” / “Racing in the Streets”

Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, (LP)
Tracks:
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
Beat It On Down The Line
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Sitting On Top of the World
Cream Puff Wars
Morning Dew
New New Minglewood Blues
Viola Lee Blues

International Submarine Band with Gram Parsons
Safe at Home, LP plus 7” single
Tracks: ”Truck Driving Man” (first ever country-rock recording) / “The Russians Are Coming”

Jenny And Johnny / Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels featuring Emmylou Harris
Side by Side “Love Hurts,” 7” vinyl

Ray Lamontagne
Live Fall 2010, RED 12” Vinyl
tracks:
For The Summer
Beg Steal Or Borrow
You Can Bring Me Flowers (featuring The Secret Sisters)
Like Rock & Roll And Radio
Henry Nearly Killed Me (It’s A Shame)

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Class Mythology EP, 2x7” vinyl, each disc with 14”x21” poster
7” #1 “Go Ahead And Rain”/ “Invisible Red”
7” #2 ” Your Name Is On Fire”/ “Future Sparrow”