Record Store Day at Easy Street Records promises crowds all day
Record Store Day at Easy Street Records promises crowds all day
300 unique releases and The Rockfords live in-store performance at 7pm
Sat, 04/22/2023
It's a big day at Easy Street Records in the West Seattle Junction. It's the Annual Record Store Day with over 300 exclusive titles, including Taylor Swift.
You might’ve seen her fans known as "Swifties" camping out overnight for this.
In fact fans anxious to get their hands on the unique and limited supply of these records wound around the block early.
Matt Vaughan, Easy Street owner was on hand to give fans free bacon and coffee.
Also, The Rockfords at 7 pm, first show in 20 years. Features Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, Carrie Akre, the Friel Brothers, and Danny Newcomb.
Vaughan said of the Rockfords:
The Rockfords could be called a Seattle supergroup, but the band was actually a reunion; Chris Friel and Danny Newcomb of the band Goodness and Rick Friel of Jody Watts were in a band called Shadowwith Mike McCready of Pearl Jam during the mid-'80s; in the late '90s they re-formed and added Goodnessvocalist Carrie Akre under the name The Rockfords(named after McCready's favorite TV show The Rockford Files). Together, they released one self-titled album for Epic in 2000 that featured production by John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) and a vocal turn by Nancy Wilson of Heart on the song "Riverwide;" the record was critically acclaimed but the band went back to their "day jobs" before recording a self-released EP, Waiting, also produced by Goodmanson and released in 2004.