Happy Sweet Sixteen Record Store Day! Get ready to hunt limited edition, special releases this Saturday, April 22.
Here are a few of this year’s Country releases that you are going to want to have in your vinyl collection.
- Kip Moore is releasing his second studio album Wild Ones on vinyl for the first time as a “RSD First” release. This Deluxe Edition 2 LP set is pressed on blue vinyl and features sixteen tracks, including the hit singles “I’m To Blame,” and “Running For You.”
- Dolly Parton is releasing a RSD Exclusive Release of The Monument Singles Collection 1964-1968 featuring Dolly’s 1960s singles from her early days at Monument Records
- Orville Peck will release Bronco as a RSD Exclusive Release
- All In For The Gambler: All-Star Concert Celebration – Nashville’s 2017 once-in-a-lifetime concert event honoring Kenny Rogers – will be released for the first time as a ‘RSD First’ Release
- This year’s RSD Ambassadors Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires release The Sound Emporium EP as a ‘RSD First’ Release. Amanda is also releasing RSD Exclusive Release Live at Columbia Studio A and features guest appearances by Jason and Maren Morris.
Click below for details on each of the releases above and others:
Artist — Album — Label — Format — Quantities Available — Release Type
Kip Moore— Wild Ones (Deluxe Edition) — UMG Nashville —2 x LP — 1,250 — ‘RSD First’ Release
Dolly Parton — The Monument Singles Collection 1964-1968 — Legacy/SMG — LP — 5,500 — RSD Exclusive Release
Orville Peck — Bronco — Columbia — 2 x LP — 1,600 — RSD Exclusive Release
Kenny Rogers — All In For The Gambler: All-Star Concert Celebration — Blackbird Presents —2 x LP — 1,500 — ‘RSD First’ Release
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires — The Sound Emporium EP — Southeastern — EP — 11,750 — “RSD First”
Amanda Shires — Live at Columbia Studio A — ATO Records — EP — 2,700 — RSD Exclusive Release
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 2023 releases, visit http://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases