It’s happened again. Recording engineer and producer Reco Hill (also from “Reco On The Move”) has unleashed a brand new mixtape jam-packed with the best of best of the current names in local hip hop right here in the 217! This one is called “Dope 3” (following Dope 2 and Dope 1 in previous years). This one kicks off with an interview by Samara Brunt, then we have ten original tracks by ten local original artists, and a “farewell” at the end by Reco himself.
Happy rainy as heck Tuesday! We’ve got new records coming in still today and every day all of the time. Our store is open from 11:00am to 6:00pm nowadays downtown. Yes, masks are still required in our store for now. However, the one thing we are changing up this week is that we are stopping listing new records online. Sorry. This way we are going to be able to put more records out! We still do have a lot of records listed online at shopdumbrecords.com (we are not stopping shipping out orders, don’t worry), and there still is a steady flow of used records coming in on our discogs page. We hope you understand. Okay here are new records this week:
New LPs The Abruptors – Love And Other Disasters Big Business – The Best You Are The Bombpops – Dead In Venice Beach Ceremony – In The Spirit World Now The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania Fugazi – Instrument The Garden – Haha GISM – Detestation Lagwagon – Trashed Leftover Crack – Fuck World Trade Masked Intruder – III Memphis Slim / Willie Dixon – In Paris Milt Hinton And Friends – Here Swings The Judge Phish – The White Tape Rancid – …Honor Is All We Know Ryan Adams – Wednesdays The Shins – The Worms Heart St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home Tom Waits – Mule Variations The Weirdos – We Go The Neutron Bomb Yola – Walk Through Fire
Used LPs Al Martino – Sausalito Alan And Iris Clements – Dance In Time Amii Stewart – Paradise Bird Andre Kostelanetz – Everything Is Beautiful Andre Kotelanetz – I Wish You Love April Wine – Stand Back Baby Washington – Soulful Baby Bananarama – Wow Barry Manilow – Here Comes The Night Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child Bobby Rydell – Biggest Hits Volume 2 Bud Freeman – The Real Bud Freeman 1984 Carolyne Mas – Hold On Cedar Walton Quartet – Second Set Chad Mitchell Trio – The Best of Chad Mitchell Trio Chuck Foster – The Uncollected Commodores – Commodores David Holland Quartet – Conference Of The Birds David Liebman – Forgotten Fantasies Diana Ross – Red Hot Rhythm + Blues Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick – The Love Machine Discotheque – Dancers-Go-Go! Donna Summer – All Systems Go Duncan Sisters – The Duncan Sisters Enoch Light – Command Performances Esther Philips – Capricorn Princess Four Tops – Four Tops Reach Out George Wright – Command Performances Gladys Knight & The Pips – Claudine Jean Kittrell – Alone John Abercrombie – Timeless John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – Crusade Johnny Rivers – A Touch Of Gold José Melis – The Exciting TV Star Karen Pree – Karen Pree Keith Emerson & The Nice – Keith Emerson & The Nice Larry Graham – Just Be My Lady Lamont Dozier – Love And Beauty Loretta Lynn – Hymns Luis Valentin – No Puedo Olvidarte Made In U.S.A. – Made In U.S.A. The Manhattan Transfer – Live Marie Osmond – There’s No Stopping Your Heart Mario Peralta – At The Regecy Marvin Gaye & Maary Wells – Together Merle Haggard And The Strangers – My Love Affair With Trains Mickey Mouse – Christmas Surprises Miles Davis – Star People The Mills Brothers – Beer Barrel Polka Mundell Lowe – Blues For A Stripper Pat Boone – Canadian Sunset Pat Boone – April Love Pat Martino – Consciousness Patti Smith Group – Waves Peaches & Herb – Worth The Wait Pearl – Pearl Peter Kiham – The Frog Pond Prince And The Revolution – Around The World In A Day Ralph Sutton / Ruby Braff – Ralph & Ruby Quartet Ray Conniff – Send In The Clowns Razzberrie Ragtimers – Razzberrie Ragtimers Reflections In Guitar – A Time For Joy The Ritchie Family – Life Is Music Ruby & The Romantics – Makin’ Out Sammy Davis Jr. – The Shelter Of Your Arms Sheila E. – Sheila E. Sister Sledge – The Sisters Spike Jones – The Best of Spike Jones Vol. 2 Tammi Terrell – Irresistible Tammy Wynette – Tammys’ Greatest Hits Various – 25 Years of Grammy Greats Various – Jazz West Coast Various – Top 10 With A Bullet: Motown Girl Groups Wings – Wings Over America The Who – Hooligans The Woman In Red (Selections From The Original Motion Picture)
12” Singles Ace / Tightest Whitest – Ain’t That Something Apache – Gangsta Bitch Brotherhood Creed BHC – Helluva Digital Underground – Wussup Wit The Luv Donna Summer – Hot Stuff Fusion Unlimited – UP2U Ken “C” – Get Outta My Face MC Lyte – Lyte As A Rock Mobb Deep – Pray For Me / Clap Mobb Deep – It’s Mine / Quiet Storm Naughty By Nature – Feel Me Flow The Primeridian – Trumpets of Zion Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y. Remix Ras Kass – Bars Up Seduction – All Night Long Spice 1 – 187 Proof Timbaland & Magoo – We At It Again Trick Daddy – Drop (Low, Low, Low) Wale Oyejide / MF Doom – This Is Dedicated To…
We’ve already made a post telling you that Record Store Day is happening this year as two separate “drop dates” in June and July – but we are telling you again today, this time with a little flier for our store! The first of those is now less than one month away, on Saturday, June 12th. Then the second is Saturday, June 17th. We will be open 8:00 am to 8:00 pm on both of those days, and we do expect there to be lines!
The list of exclusive releases coming out for both of those days is much to long for us to list here, but you can head on over to Recordstoreday.com for that full list as well as a description of each item and which of the drop dates each exclusive release comes out on. As usual, we can not do any holds for any of these items, they are first come first serve. We will be listing any leftovers we have the following days after the initial release on our online stores. We DID order everything on the list for both of these drop dates – however, not everything we ordered is always guaranteed. We will say that this was the biggest RSD order we have ever submitted, so we are expecting a very big day all around!
We are here, we are ready to post on our site the first thing related to live music happening again in right here in this city. Today is the day. We still aren’t ready to have shows in our own space, but some nice outdoor events in a great big open field starting in June sounds pretty good to us. Especially if all of us are vaccinated.
Today, Levitt AMP Springfield (presented by PNC Bank) announced their big schedule for 2021 – including 10 outdoor concerts every Thursday night from June 3rd to August 5th. These concerts will be taking place out on the “Y-block” next to the Illinois governor’s mansion as they did in the 2019 season, just through the alleyway from our store. Most of these concerts feature two acts – the first one going on at 6:00 pm and the second going on at 7:00 pm and until 8:30 pm. Oh, by the way all of these shows are FREE. This series was made possible by Springfield applying for and getting a grand through the Levitt Foundation, as well as other local sponsors teaming together.
This is just a post to let you know that local band Bottom Bracket have been announced as playing “Fest 19” in Gainesville, Florida coming up this October! Congratulations to them! We’ve been lucky to have a good number of Springfield bands represented at FEST in the past including Hospital Job, Looming, and Attic Salt. Right now Bottom Bracket is the only local group announced for this year that we know of. FEST takes place on October 29th-31st in Florida.
Hey, that’s our street! Looks like something is happening on the street we are on downtown! That’s a “Monroe Street Artwork Unveiling” on Saturday, May 22nd which is one week from this upcoming Saturday. Info from the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook event:
Downtown Springfield Inc, Springfield High School, and the Strong Towns Facebook Group is excited to announce the unveiling of artwork murals that will be displayed in the windows of store fronts along Monroe Street, between 3rd and 6th Streets.
This has been a great opportunity for art students at Springfield High School under their teachers Beth Pianezza and Tara Starling to feature their artwork in the local community. Strong Towns Bookclub will be including quotes from Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by author Charles L. Marohn Jr. adjacent to the students’ artwork.
This project was made possible by the following sponsors; Springfield Area Arts Council, Solomon Colors, Springfield Electric, Bank of Springfield, DSI Board Member Erin Svendsen, and Crawford Murphy & Tilly. Without them and Gregory Shelton with Solution Printing, Inc., none of this would have been possible!We’ll unveil the project today! Please join us on the corner of 6th and Monroe outside the Ferguson Building, 524 E. Monroe Street at 10AM.
As far as we know, our storefront is not part of this artwork unveiling. But we do still have a giant green elephant outside of our store and we think that counts as art and we are sure this new artwork will all look great on our street.
Okay, back to the new local music! This one is from Kristin Walker – featured on the cover of this month’s Activator Magazine – local musician and artist, formerly of bands Moondead and a few other full bands from the Black Sheep era. Kristin has released five songs under the title Etheric Bodies, which you can stream on the bandcamp player below. Pick up a copy of Activator Magazine to check out an interview with Kristin where she talks more about these songs! Also head on over to Kristin’s bandcap page where you can purchase the download of the songs and check out more of her music.
We are real slow to be adding to our Springfield album archive page for this year – but we are catching up and this one is number 10 for releases we have had featured on our site this year!
Lovely! We are ready for nicer weather, summer, more things happening outdoors downtown, and the return of the Old Capitol Farmers Market! That’s right – the Farmers Market here in downtown Springfield officially kicks back off today – or did just a little bit ago at 8:00 am!
The Farmers Market takes place on the corner of 4th and Adams Streets here downtown, and up and down Adams Street just west of the Old State Capitol building just about one block away from us. There was an article in the paper a few days ago – “Farmers Markets Return For Summer Season With Samples, Live Music, and Social Distancing”. The Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday and Saturday morning from now until October 27th in the fall! This is the 22nd year the Farmers Market has been in operation! More info on the market as well as COVID guidelines can be found on the Downtown Springfield Inc. website right here.
It’s that time of year once again where one of the biggest gatherings and festivals *would be* happening here downtown right next to us (but unfortunately is not once again this year due to COVID-19). HOWEVER, Springfield PrideFest is still taking place this year just *virtually* on the web. We were happy to donate a gift basket which is being auctioned off as part of this event.
The virtual PrideFest is taking place from 1:00 to 7:00 pm this Saturday, May 15th at UISpac.com. The virtual festival does include music from Thornhill, interviews, contest drawings, and a live drag show at 5:30 pm. More info on the event can also be found on that link. Also follow Springfield PrideFest on facebook to stay updated on going-ons relating to Springfield PrideFest!
Happy Tuesday – it’s another week at our record store and the records continue to fly and and and out of the store. We are just having a lot of fun over here. Don’t forget we are also uploading videos onto our youtube channel every week now where we show the unboxing of some records, talk about some of our picks, and goof off. Our store is open from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm every day now at 418 E Monroe Street. We still have a green elephant in front of our store. Our online store is still at shopdumbrecords.com. Okay, now let’s dive into what’s new!
New LPs Alfie Templeman – Forever Isn’t Long Enough American Football – EP Amon Düül II – Hijack Can – Future Days Chvrches – Love Is Dead Dan P. – My Living Room Deicide – The Stench of Redemption Don Davis – The Matrix Soundtrack Dowsing – Okay Eric Church – Heart Escape The Fate – Chemical Warfare Hey-Smith – Life In The Sun Iceage – Seek Shelter Iron And Wine – Archive Series Volume No. 5 Joe Strummer – Assembly The Lillingtons – Can Anybody Hear Me? Miles Davis – Round About Midnight NOFX – Single Album Patti Smith Group – Radio Ethiopia Smoking Popes – Into The Agony Space Cats – Something New Teenage Bottlerocket – Warning Device Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
Used LPs Alan Price – Lucky Day Anne Murray – What About Me Argent – In Deep Argent – Nexus The Banjo Kings – Volume One B.B. King – Midnight Believer Bill Black’s Combo – Plays The Blues Bill Black’s Combo – Movin’ Bill Bruford – Feels Good To Me B.J. Thomas – New Looks Bob Crosby – Bob Crosby And His Orchestra 1938 Bobby Vinton – Melodies Of Love Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Live Oblivion Vol. 1 Bruce Forman Quartet – Full Circle Buddy Johnson – Walkin’ Buck Wilkin – Buck Wilkin Carole King – Thoroughbred Cats – Broadway Cast Recording Champion Jack Dupree – Blues From The Gutter Charles Aznavour – Bravo! Bravo! Chicago – Chicago VII Chick Webb & His Orchestra – A Legend 1929-1936 Cleo Laine – A Beautiful Thing Dr. Jerry Falwell – The Living Christmas Tree Flip Wilson – You Devil You Flora Purim – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly Gene Pitney – The Fabulous Gene Pitney Gladys Knight & The Pips – Early Hits Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds – Hallway Symphony Homer & Jethro – Fractured Folk Songs Kate Smith – Her Very Best Kate Smith – God Bless America The Kirby Stone Four – The Kirby Stone Touch Janis Ian – Janis Ian Jimmy Lewis & The Checkers – Year, Right Jimmy Mosher Quintet – Satyric Horn Joan Armatrading – How Cruel Joe Bushkin – Joe Bushkin In Concert, Town Hall Joe South – Introspect John Abercrombie – Current Events John Davidson – Goin’ Places Johnny Horton – Battle of New Orleans Johnny Mathis – The Sweetheart Tree Johnny Rivers – Meanwhile Back At The Whisky A Go Go Jr. Walker And The All Stars – Home Cookin’ Le Quartet Bash – Le Quartet Bash Los Yonics – Los Yonics Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Special Louis Armstrong – Immortal Sessions Volume I Mac Davis – Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me The Manhattan Transfer – The Extensions Mark Knopfier – Local Hero Mantovani – Conducts The World’s Great Light Classics Mason Williams – Hand Made Mike Adkins – He Is Near Mike Adkins – Thank You For The Dove The Mills Brothers – Paper Doll McGuirre Sisters – With The DeJohn Sisters Murray The K – Live From Brooklyn Fox Nancy Adams – And The Deer Creek Fundamentalists Nancy Wilson – Like In Love The New Christy Minstrels Olivia Newton-John – Come On Over Paul Stookey – Paul And Paul Revere & The Raiders – Featuring Mark Lindsay Pete Fountain – A Taste of Honey Philip Aaberg – High Plains The Platters – 30 Golden Hits Procol Harum – Grand Hotel Ralph Towner – Batik Richie Beirach & John Abercrombie – Emerald City Robert Rheims – Christmas In Carols Roger Williams – Only For Lovers Roger Williams – Magic Moods Sam Rivers – The Quest The San Sebastian Strings – For Lovers Scum – Scum Shanice Wilson – Discovery Shakin’ Stevens – Get Shakin’ Sidney Becket – At The Brussells Fair The Supremes – Sing Rodgers And Hart Sylvia – Drifter Tammy Wynette – Til I Can Make It On My Own The Temptations – Do The Temptations T. Texas Tyler – The Hits of T. Texas Tyler Todd Rundgren Initiation Various – Highlight On Lady Rock Various – 1962 Barbershop Chorus Vikki Carr – Hoy (Today)
12” Singles Army Of The Pharaohs – Tear It Down Diana Ross – The Boss / Lovin’ Livin’ & Givin’ Do Or Die – Can U Make It Hot Herculeez & Big Tyme – Hollywood Jay Z – What More Can I Say Scarface – Recognize Soul Position – Blame It On The Jäger Tina Charles – Dance Little Lady Dance
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