Blog: My Old Kentucky Blog

Unless you live under a Spartanly-furnished rock, you know that this Saturday is Record Store Day, the happiest day of the year for those of us who still believe in the smell of vinyl and the power of liner notes. Like too many grassroots movement, recent years have witnessed RSD slowly becoming a soundingboard for larger artists. And that's great as long as it makes the registers sing at setting sun Mom and Pop shops, but it too often eclipses the less mainstream artists that these shops serve loyally day-in and day-out. So, when those doors [...]

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