New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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It’s a new week in our quarantine world! Are we used to this new way of life yet? Can you remember what our real store was like? Or what shows were like? We can barely remember. This week like any week we’ve got a few new items hitting the shelves, including new and used records and CDs. Our store is closed of course, but our online Discogs store is open 24:7. And so is our storenvy store, that is starting to run low on shirts! We also have an ongoing GoFundMe campaign online that appears to be doing really really well! Wow!! Let’s dive into what’s new:

New LPs
Bottom Bracket – I Don’t Care Enough To Stay
Hop Along – Get Disowned

Used LPs
Air Supply – Air Supply
The Alwyn Wall Band – The Prize
Barry McGuire – C’mon Along
Battlefield Band – Anthem For The Common Man
Boys of the Lough – Far From Home
Claim – Not Drawing, Waving
The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out At Night
Dean Martin – I Take A Lot of Pride In What I Am
Edouard Commette – Bach On The Cathedral Organ
The Dragsters – Stoked
George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Together Again
Grace Slick – Manhole
GTR – GTR
Hope of Glory – Second Look
Horny Genius – Burn Your Sister
Janie Fricke – Singer of Songs
John Anderson – John Anderson
John Anderson – Wild & Blue
John Gary – The One And Only John Gary
Joni Mitchell – Dog Eat Dog
June Tabor – Airs and Graces
Kenny Loggins – Nightwatch
K-Tel Records – 25 Rock Revival Greats
Mantovani – Bravo! Mantovani
Marillion – Clutching At Straws
Mega City Four – Tranzophobia
The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
The Nervous Set – Original Broadway Cast
Oscar Peterson – Plays Jimmy McHugh
Pat Boone – Songs For Jesus Folk
Pat Boone – The Golden Era of Country Hits
Peter Frampton – I’m In You
Peter Frampton – Somethin’s Happening
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – New Orleans Vol. 1
Prime Movers – Museum
Ramsey Lewis – Solid Ivory: His Greatest Hits
Randy Edelman – Outside In Soundtrack
Reba McEntire – Greatest Hits
The Regals – We Shall Rise
Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly
Ron Wood – Gimme Some Neck
The Rumbles – Jump To Confusion
Salvation Air Foce – Strangers In A Strange Land
The Sandpipers – Guantanamera
Sawyer Brown – Shakin’
Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Toots Thielemans – Captured Alive
Tony Orlando & Dawn – Knock Three Times & Candida
Tony Sheridan – Dawn Colours
Western Vacation – Western Vacation
Woody Allen – Woody Allen

12” Singles
Body Head Bangerz – I Smoke, I Drank
Cassidy – The Message
D.G. Yola – Ain’t Gon Let Up
Down South Georgia Boys – DSGB
Fabulous feat. P. Diddy & Jagged Edge – Trade It All Pt. 2
Gemster & Big Mato – Bang Bang
Grafh – I Ai’t Playin’ Ft. Stat Quo
Pastor Troy – This Tha City
Sean P – Everywhere We Go
Wreckin’ Crew – Chance To Dance

New CDs
Asia – Live 09-X1-90
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Bad Religion – The Process of Belief
Barbara Streisand – The Way We Were Soundtrack
Barenaked Ladies – Maroon
Barenaked Ladies – Everything Everyone
Big Wreck – The Pleasure And The Greed
Boxstep – The Faces All Look On
Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time
Bryan Adams – So Far So Good
Butthole Surfers – Electriclarryland
Chicago – The Heart of Chicago
Chicago – Chicago’s Greatest Hits Volume I
Christina Aguilera – Stripped
Christina Aguilera – Just Be Free
Eddie Rabbitt – All Time Greatest Hits
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio – Supernova
Herbie Hancock – Jammin’ With Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea – An Evening With
Herbie Hancock – Futureshock
Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
Hiroshima – Another Place
Ken Mellons – The Best of Ken Mellons
Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw – I Finally Sound Someone
Madonna – Music
Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
Madonna – Greatest Hits Volume 2
Mark Isham – Miles Remembered
The Mavericks – What A Crying Shame
Odori – Hiroshima
Paula Abdul – Greatest Hits
Peter Cetera – World Falling Down
Reba McEntire – What If It’s You
Reba McEntire – It’s Your Call
Rodney Jones – Soul Manifesto
Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell Pt. 2
Sarah Brightman – La Luna
Supertramp – Some Things Never Change
Tim McGraw – Tim McGraw
V.S.O.P. – The Quintet
X – Wild Gift

Kate Laine: “Covers in Quarantine”

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With all of us at home, we have been seeing a lot of livestreams from local solo musicians, or sit-down-acoustic videos. There have been a lot of new acoustic cover songs as well, which are always fun to see! Today we bring you a collection of songs Kate Laine has presented on her bandcamp, called Covers in Quarantine. Right now those are three songs which you can find on the player streaming below, but Kate might be adding more to the collection! So far groups covered include Big Thief, Julia Jacklin, and Feist. Head over to Kate’s bandcamp page where you can download these songs for free.

Kate also released a new original solo song called “Sway” at the beginning of this stay-at-home-order.

Join Us For Record Of The Night!

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Hey y’all! We are all stuck at home right now, why haven’t we though of having some fun and bringing the Dumb Records Record of the Night™ back to where it all began – at home. We want to invite YOU, (yes you), to show us what YOU are listening to and participate in our long-running tradition of Record of the Night™.

The rules are real loose. Feel free to send us a photo of you, your family, pets, plants, or whoever you have over there in your homes and the record that you are listening to! Keep it one record to the photo, and preferable a record we have not recently had featured!!

You can email submissions to dumbrecs@gmail.com or get ahold of us on pretty much any social media platform. If you are looking for inspiration, dive into the thousands of Records of the Night taken throughout the many many years right here. If all goes well we will have a different one featured on that link, and facebook, and instagram each night!

“Help Keep Dumb Records Afloat” GoFundMe Page

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Well, we have given in and launched a GoFundMe page again. 

As you know, many people and small businesses in our community and around the globe are struggling during the stay-at-home-order and precautions that must be taken to fight COVID-19.

At Dumb Records we have done our best even with our physical doors being shut to continue with online orders and engaging with customers. We do always enjoy coming up with new ideas and new things to try.

However this has only gotten us so far. With our normal operation, we rely on shows and in-store sales to make sure our rent and bills get paid. Last month we were left with no other choice but to cancel a total of 15 shows we had lined up on our calendar, and ever since then we are in a position where we can not have any new shows in the works. We are also faced with the scary uncertainty of not knowing when we will be able to host live shows again, and not knowing when our physical store open back up.

At this point it is likely that even if our physical store can open back up, it will be even longer until we can start having shows again.

So, we are reaching out to the community to help keep our store and all ages show space afloat during this time. All of our efforts to receive other financial aid or grants up until this point have also been unfortunately unsuccessful. Anything you can donate would be much appreciated, and we also encourage you to donate to or support other local businesses who are also in need.

We will likely keep this donation page up the duration of the stay-at-home-order. We also are continuing to push our online Discogs store, and storenvy pages.

Meezy Killafield: “I Don’t Know Freestyle”

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Even though the lock-down continues, hip hop in the 217 does not as we keep having new singles and music videos rolling in! This time once again local rapper Meezy Killafield has teamed up with Twenty One Seven Studios for a new song and video for “I Don’t Know Freestyle.” You can check that one out on the player embedded below.

Meezy Killafield released his album The Killafield Kronicles earlier last year. Check out a long list of other local music videos shot over the years on our vids/pics page.

Sonic Maximizer: “Heavy Surf Sounds”

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Sonic Maximizer, the surf rock punk outfit from Springfield and Taylorville have released their brand new full length album, Heavy Surf Sounds. The album is up for streaming right here on Spotify. From the band’s facebook page:

Our first full length album is available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer. You can purchase and download the album on itunes.

Many thanks to Brandon Carnes for recording and mixing, and Miles Parkhill of milestshirtsdotcom for letting us use his facilities. Thanks to all of you who have come to shows and shown support to not only our band, but to this whole music community we have…

It’s weird to release this album during these troubling times. This is not how we envisioned our release would be. But we as musicians need to do are part in trying to keep life as normal as we can. We are eager to get back out there just like rest of you are, and when we do we are going to be coming out stronger than ever!

We will keep all of you up to date when our next shows are scheduled. Enjoy the album, and stay healthy friends. We will see you soon! 🤘🤙

P.S. Be on the look out for our website. It will have all of our info, show dates, merchandise, CDS, Vinyl, and Videos that we have to offer.

Sonic Maximizer had a release show lined up to happen originally this past weekend at Buzz Bomb Brewery but of course was cancelled along with every other show in the world.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Happy Tornado Drill Tuesday, everyone. It’s a beautiful day outside, and it’s a beautiful day inside where we are all are too. We have been constantly adding more and more to our online Discogs page – we are at 5,416 listings currently. Our physical store is still closed and will be at least until the end of this month. If you order something from us online though we will be happy to get it out to you with love and add a special touch. There are no shows lined up of course. Remember to keep checking our facebook page too if you want to join in on some deals-of-the-day fun!

New LPs
Bottom Bracket – I Don’t Care Enough To Stay

Used LPs
Art Kassell – Dance To The Music of Art Kassel
Barbara Mandrell – The Best Of
Bitter End – Illusions of Dominance
Channel Two – Artful Time Reduction
Chet Atkins – Picks The Best
Claim – Not Drowning, Waving
Coleman Hawkins – Wrapped Tight
Eagles – On The Border
Eagles – The Long Run
Drumming On Glass – Asparagus Tea
Fleetwood Mac – Mirage
Goodyear Tires – Carols & Candlelight
Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream
Gordon Lightfoot – Summer Side of Life
Industrial Teepee – Industrial Teepee
Janitors – Thunderhead
Jessi Colter – I’m Jessi Colter
Jimmie Driftwood – Tall Tales In Song
John Williams – The Accidental Tourist Soundtrack
June Tabor – Airs and Graces
The Life – Alone
Lynn Anderson – Smile For Me
Mick Fleetwood – The Visitor
Mott The Hoople – Mott
Nazareth – Expect No Mercy
Neil Sedaka – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Neil Sedaka – Circulate
New Model Army – Vengeance / The Independent Story
Night Ranger – Dawn Patrol
Pentangle – Open The Door
Peter Frampton – Where I Should Be
Ramsey Lewis – Solid Ivory: His Greatest Hits
Red Foley – Beyond The Sunset
Red Foley – The Old Master
Robert Goulet – Sings Today’s Greatest Hits
Rod Stewart – Body Wishes
Rosanne Cash – King’s Record Shop
Roy Clark / Gatemouth Brown – Makin’ Music
Roy Drusky – Songs of the Cities
The Seekers – Live!
The Spin – “Lonely Max” And Other…
The Tannahill Weavers – Cullen Bay
Tony Sheridan & The Elvis Presley Band – Worlds Apart
Various – The Sounds of Christmas
Various – Greatest Hits of the Fantastic 50’s

12” Singles
Grafh – I Ain’t Playin’ Ft. Stat Quo
J-Zone – Greater Later Remix
Pumpkin & Friends – Feel The Heartbeat
Sunny Valentine – Shine On ‘Em
T.I. Presents The P$C – Do Ya Thang / Set It Out
TJ Boyce feat. Lil’ Flip – This Is How We Do
Tom Tom Club – Under The Boardwalk

New CDs
Ahmad Jamal – Priceless Jazz Collection
Al Jarreau – Heaven And Earth
Al Jarreau – Look To The Rainbow
Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita
Asia – Anthology
Bad Religion – No Substance
Big Audio Dynamite – Super Hits
Black Label Society – Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!!
The Blenders – Loveland
The Blenders – The Blenders
Blessid Union – Walking Off THe Buzz
Blind Melon – Blind Melon
Bliss 66 – Trip To The 13th
Bob James – Playin’ Hooky
Bob James – Joy Ride
Boney James – Trust
The Bouncing Souls – Hopeless Romantic
Bryan Adams – The Best Of Me
Bryan Adams – Waking Up The Neighbors
Chet Baker – The Best of Chet Baker Plays
Chicago Greatest Hits 1982-1989
The Cure – 3 For One
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
The Firm – Mean Business
George Harrison – Brainwashed
George Howard – A Home Far Away
Gloria Estefan – Unwrapped
Heather Myles – Highways & Honky Tonks
Jack De Johnette’s Special Edition – Irresistible Forces
JJ Johnson – Standards: Live At The Village Vanguard
Jo Dee Messina – Burn
Jo Dee Messina – I’m Alright
Joe Henderson – The Definitive Joe Henderson
The Kinks – Face To Face
LeAnn Rimes – Blue
LeAnn Rimes – LeAnn Rimes
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Apocalypse
Marty Robins – All-Time Greatest Hits
Mila Mason – The Strong One
Peter Cetera – Another Perfect World
Quincy Jones – Walking In Space
Quincy Jones – Big Band Bossa Nova
Rainbow – Long Live Rock N’ Roll
Rascal Flatts – Rascal Flatts
Reba McEntire – Greatest Hits Volume III
Special EFX – Global Village
Supertramp – Famous Last Words
Suptertramp – Even In The Quietest Moments
Tim McGraw – Not A Moment Too Soon
Tori Amos – Under The Pink
Various – Footloose Soundtrack
Widespread Panic – Bombs & Butterflies
Widespread Panic – Widespread Panic
X – Ain’t Love Grand
X – Beyond And Back: The Anthology

Deezy Da Paperboy feat. Junior Pasáre: “Brown Baby Bars”

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All of the bars in town are closed (except for some that are doing curbside and delivery services), but today we have some more brand new local music, and a song called “Brown Baby Bars”… that’s right, brought to you by hip hop projects Deezy Da Paperboy and featuring Junior Pasáre.

We couldn’t find this one streaming on any services that we can embed below, but this new track IS streaming on Apple Music right here, and Spotify right here. Go check it out! Oh, it’s even on Google Play right here.

Activator April “Social Distancing” Issue Available Now Online

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It’s April, and another month usually means a new issue of Activator Magazine available for free in our store! This month of course is pretty wild and different with all of us staying at home, and our physical store not even being open! For this month’s issue, Activator has put together a special “Social Distancing” issue and it’s available for free online! Find the link to check that out right here.

This issue includes the usual local music write-ups, and scene reports for both Springfield and Champaign, however no Central Illinois or St. Louis show calendars because all shows are cancelled! The issue is however still packed with a list of recourses for musicians effected by COVID-19, and article about live-streams becoming more popular during this time, and more.

Consider supporting Activator Magazine by also checking out their online Patreon page.

Dumb Records “Vinyl Fan’s Starters Club” Deal

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We are trying new things to be creative with our store now that we are going to have to be closed for the next month (or more). Also most of us are stuck at home for a while now, so what a better time to get into vinyl than now if you don’t already have a turntable set up?!? That is why today we are introducing this new special, probably to go until the end of the stay-at-home-order. It is the Vinyl Fan’s Starters Club Deal. For $120, this is what is all included:

– Your choice of a Studebaker “5 in 1” stereo turntable / CD / cassette player, OR an Audio-Technica AT-LP60X turntable
– Your choice of 1 Dumb Records t-shirt or hat
– Your pickings of $35 of vinyl from our discogs store
– A few extra stickers and guitar picks thrown in.

Wow, amazing! Get in touch with us at dumbrecs@gmail.com or whatever means possible if interested. This offer is available to Springfield residents only. And as far as turntables go, we have a limited amount available in our store right now but can always order more.