![]() ![]() Bishop and a team of investors, including the Saint Arnold Brewing Company, would own and operate the shop. The store wouldn’t stay closed for long, reopening at its Portsmouth digs in late 2007 just in time for the holiday season. That store closing sale was a boon for fans of rare movies and records. Bud Daily passed in 2010 and helped get ZZ Top its first major record deal.Īt the time of the original store’s closing, record stores across the country were shutting down in droves as people began to download their music instead of visiting their local record store to explore. ![]() The Daily brothers decided to retire from the record store business, which at the time wasn’t exactly doing so hot.ĭon Daily, who played a major role in George Strait’s early recording career, died in 2013. The old location shuttered in early 2006 and with it went decades of memories, like an all-too-brief Jeff Buckley in-store performance in 1994 that is still the stuff of local legend. RELATED: Houston's Cactus Music to close its doors (2006) The Shepherd location had a VHS and DVD rental area that film director and Houston native Wes Anderson haunted while he was working the script and casting 2001’s “The Royal Tenenbaums.” He also reportedly discovered the music for “Rushmore” (The Kinks, John Lennon, The Creation) on the record racks at Cactus years before. ![]() Another label, Starday, was the home of Roger Miller and George Jones among others.ĭaily’s kids Bud and Don opened up the Shepherd location in 1975. Pappy also ran record labels, including D Records, which over the years would be the home to acts like a pre-outlaw Willie Nelson and regional polka and Tex-Mex acts. “Our original store in the Heights, Daily's Record Ranch, regularly presented in-store events with the performers of The Louisiana Hayride including Hank Williams Sr.,” notes Cactus head honcho and co-owner Quinn Bishop. RELATED: Houston businesses that have served generations Camping supplies and hiking boots have replaced concert posters, box sets, and dusty vinyl.īut Cactus' roots go back decades to Harold “Pappy” Daily’s outpost in the Heights that opened in 1946. Other artists with special Record Store Day Releases include Animal Collective, Cautious Clay, Ella Fitzgerald, Ariana Grande, Al Green, the Grateful Dead, Lupe Fiasco, Perfume Genius, Sublime, and Iggy Pop- check out the extensive list here.That location is currently a Whole Earth Provision Co. This Saturday, your haul could include a special-release yellow vinyl of Lady Gaga's Chromatica a re-release of an underrated Prince album from 1988 or an archival vinyl of 1960s home recordings and radio broadcasts from Joni Mitchell. Record Store Day is a chance to both support the vinyl shops in your life, and pick up tons of special vinyl releases from both classic and trendy artists. Fortunately, Portland's record stores are now mostly open for business, and ready to welcome vinyl-heads for the first of two 2021 Record Store Days this Saturday, June 12. While scores of major musical artists were forced to cancel or postpone tour dates, fans could still lust after-and spend their stimmy money on-the latest limited-edition vinyl releases.īut while online orders and curbside pickup fueled the vinyl upswing, Portlanders may have missed the serendipity and tactile experience of shopping in a record store. The COVID-19 pandemic was, apparently, good for at least one thing: Vinyl sales surged, as people had more time to sit at home and spin their records. Tomorrow Records is one of many Portland vinyl shops participating in Record Store Day this weekend. ![]()
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