Record Store Day 2013 Country Music Field Guide
This Saturday, April 20th is the 2013 installment of Record Store Day–the annual event started in 2007 to help struggling independent record stores. As the event has grown over the years and has expanded to include an event on Black Friday before Christmas, artists and labels have stepped up to help with the cause, releasing limited-edition collectible pieces of vinyl to entice the public into visiting their local mom and pop music sellers.
2013 has some juicy releases, including some super rare Willie Nelson demo sessions, a split with Waylon Jennings and the Old 97’s, some cool live albums from Gram Parsons and Sarah Jarosz, and a re-issue of Justin Townes Earle’s first album, the Yuma EP. The below list are Record Store Day’s country and country-ish releases in alphabetical order.
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Chet Atkins
Black Jack EP
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: SUNDAZED
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Previously unreleased recordings by this guitar master
Midnight, Boo Boo Stick Beat, Blackjack, Blue Moon of Kentucky
The Avett Brothers and Randy Travis
Music From CMT Crossroads
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Warner Music Nashville
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Limited edition split single. Randy Travis covers the Avett Brothers’ “February”, The Avett Brothers covers the Randy Travis song, “Three Wooden Crosses.
The Band
The Last Waltz
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Rhino
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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3 180 Gram LPs, Numbered RSD Edition. All original packaging with Embossing and two foils. All original inner sleeves plus 12-page booklet. Out of print for more than a decade.
Blitzen Trapper
Blitzen Trapper Deluxe Reissue
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: LidKerCow, LTD
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Blitzen Trapper’s debut album from 2003 will be available for the first time on vinyl in celebration of it’s 10th Anniversary. The record was remastered by Bruce Barielle and the lacquers were cut by Jeff Powell at Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN. A very limited edition run, the record is pressed on 180g vinyl with a free digital download of the entire record with five previously unheard bonus tracks from the original sessions.
Calexico
Spiritoso
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Anti/Epitaph
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Includes songs from ALGIERS as well as the Calexico catalog recorded live in Germany in June 2012 with the Radio Symphonic Orchestra Vienna and the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
Rattlin Bones
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Sugar Hill
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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A staple of the Americana genre, this release marks the first collaboration for these Australian husband-and-wife superstars. First time on vinyl.
Charlie Poole With The Highlanders
Complete Paramount and Brunswick Recordings
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Tompkins Square
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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All sides recorded in New York, 1929. Liner notes by Poole authority Kinney Rorrer
Dale Watson
I Lie When I Drink
Format: 45 Vinyl
Label: Red House
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Featuring fan-favorite songs “I Lie When I Drink” and “Thanks To Tequila,” 3,500 copies of the record were pressed on high quality red vinyl. The free 45 is only available at select independent record stores on Record Store Day.
Elizabeth Cook & Jason Isbell
Tecumseh Valley b/w Pancho & Lefty
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: 31 Tigers
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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“Tecumseh Valley” b/w “Pancho & Lefty”
Studio versions of both artists covering Townes Van Zandt. They originally performed these songs on Late Night with David Letterman
Mike Cooley
Too Pretty To Work
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Cooley Records
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Record Store Day 7″ featuring 2 live tracks recorded at shows in 2012.
1 Self Destructive Zones (3:36)
2 Get Downtown (3:12)
Justin Townes Earle
Yuma
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Label: Bloodshot Records
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Previously released debut EP from Justin Townes Earle, now on vinyl for the first time. 10″ vinyl. Colored vinyl (opaque gold). Limited to 1000 copies, for RSD.
The Ghost of Virginia, You Can’t Leave, Yuma, I Don’t Care, Let the Waters Rise, A Desolate Angels Blues
Alejandro Escovedo/Chris Scruggs
78 rpm 10
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Label: Plowboy Records
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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78 rpm 10″ A/B single release of two covers of Eddy Arnold standards by Alejandro Escovedo (A side) and Chris Scruggs (B side) for upcoming “You Don’t Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold” album project due in May 2013
a side : “It’s a Sin” by Alejandro Escovedo – B side: “Just A Little Lovin’ (Will Go A Long Way” by Chris Scruggs
Patty Griffin
Ohio
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: New West
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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This is a single A-side 7” pressed on heavyweight vinyl. The vinyl is black, hand-numbered 1-500, and Patty will sign Side B on 25 of the records, which will be randomly distributed. This song is from her forthcoming album, American Kid, due out 5/14/13. This will come in an all white sleeve with a stamped logo and a stickered UPC.
Sarah Jarosz
Live At The Troubadour
Label: Sugar Hill
Release type: ‘RSD First’ Release
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Recorded in August of 2012, Live at the Troubadour finds the Grammy-nominated acoustic wunderkind in pristine form and marks Jarosz’s debut live recording.
TRACK LISTING: 1. Tell Me True 2. Kathy’s Song 3. Mansineedof 4. Shankill Butchers 5. Broussard’s Lament
J.D. McPherson
Fire Bug
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Concord
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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SIDE A: Fire Bug / SIDE B: A Gentle Awakening
Tift Merritt
Markings
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Yep Roc
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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4-song 12″ featuring an unreleased track, a live track and two acoustic tracks from Traveling Alone. Covered with a tactile cross-stitched/embroidered record cover.
Mumford & Sons
Live at Bull Moose
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Label: Glassnote
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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“””I Will Wait”” “”Ghosts That We Knew”” “”Where Are You Now”” “”Awake My Soul”” — 3 or 4 songs from their bull moose instore – CD version”
Willie Nelson
Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Legacy
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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7″ Green Colored Vinyl, Numbered.
Side A – feat guest vocals by Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson & Kris Kristofferson
Side B previously unreleased Willie solo version
Willie Nelson
Crazy: The Demo Sessions
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Sugar Hill
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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When Willie first got to Nashville he cut some demos for Ray Price and Hal Smith’s publishing company, Pamper Music. Though these cuts were used to pitch songs to artists (including ‘Crazy’ for Patsy Cline) and producers, many weren’t released. These 1960-1966 tracks are raw, real and really good, clearly the work of an artist/songwriter headed for stardom.
Old 97s and Waylon Jennings
Old 97s/Waylon Jennings
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Omnivore Recordings
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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2 x 7″ Two tracks from Old 97s sessions with Waylon Jennings, and two additional Old 97s demo tracks. Cover art by Jon Langford of the Mekons and Waco Brothers, and famed painter of country icons.– Iron Road, The Other Shoe, Visiting Hours (1996 demo), Fireflies Take 2 (1996 demo)
Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels-Live 1973 7
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: SIERRA
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Originally released in 1982 as a bonus 7″ EP to Sierra Records “Live 1973” LP release of Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris with full color sleeve.
Side One: Medley- Bony Moronie, 40 Days, Almost Grown Side Two: Conversations, Doing It in the Bus, Broken EBS Box, Hot Burrito #1
Richard Thompson
Salford Sunday
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: New West
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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This is a single A-side 7” pressed on heavyweight vinyl. This song is off of the releaseElectric (2/5/13). The vinyl is black, hand-numbered 1-500. Richard will sign Side B on 25 of the records, which will be distributed randomly.
Yonder Mountain String Band
Yonder Mountain String Band
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Vanguard
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Available for the first time on vinyl.
April 16, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
hey Triggerman,do you ever make it out to these and pick up anything? i think this is gonna be the first year i pass on it. the stores around here are starting to get insane both days. i’d like to keep doing it,but it’s kinda turning into a hassle.
April 16, 2013 @ 3:06 pm
I’ve never been one of those people that wakes up at 5:45 AM to get their first to score the best selections. Two years ago I ambled into Lone Star Music’s record store in Gruene, TX about 12:30 PM (I was already going to a show at Gruene Hall) and still found pretty much everything I wanted. Last year I stopped into Waterloo in Austin probably mid-afternoon, and the one thing I really wanted they didn’t have. This year about the only thing I’d really like to score is that Waylon/Old 97’s split, simply because it is a super cool music artifact, but as I’ve gotten older (and poorer), I rarely see something that I feel I can’t live without. That Willie demo album would be cool too. I do think as Record Store Day gets older, they’re going to have to put a better system in place to make sure they don’t burn people out on the experience. Having said that, the hunt is part of the fun, and that engages a lot of people.
April 17, 2013 @ 5:01 pm
The new record store in San Marcos, Superfly’s Lone Star Music Emporium, may or may not be getting that Willie/Old 97’s you speak of…
April 17, 2013 @ 5:02 pm
Waylon*
April 17, 2013 @ 2:29 am
There’s also this on Dale Watson’s website:
Red House Records has produced a special, old-school 45 rpm record to celebrate the success of Dale Watson’s new, Billboard-charting album El Rancho Azul. This limited edition promotional record is a giveaway for Record Store Day 2013, which falls on Saturday, April 20th. Featuring fan-favorite songs “I Lie When I Drink” and “Thanks To Tequila,” 3,500 copies of the record were pressed on high quality red vinyl. The free 45 is only available at select independent record stores on Record Store Day.
April 17, 2013 @ 8:51 am
Thanks for the info, I just added it to the list. That’s crazy that it is going to be free (according to the info). That may be why it was not on Record Store Day’s master list.
April 18, 2013 @ 7:14 am
And it’s not listed as available from my local record shop here in the UK, nor the Willie Nelson “Demos”. I suppose I’ll have to wait until one turns up on ebay for stupid money!
April 17, 2013 @ 7:18 am
I am really wanting that JTE – Yuma, Old 97’s/Waylon, JD Mcpherson
April 17, 2013 @ 8:36 pm
Useful info for demented shut-ins: Lonesome Wyatt and Those Poor Bastards records and Cds and cassette tapes will be 20% off on record store day via their website.