Soul Traveling

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Soul Traveling: Episode 12 (Allentown, PA)

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July 28, 2009 06:06 PM PDT

Destination: Allentown, PA
Location: Double Decker Records

One of the things I enjoy about great record stores is the true democratic nature of their greatness. They're not all concentrated in big cities, they're not all around Universities, and just when you think you can draw a conclusion you find out you really can't. Great record stores are just great. In the case of Double Decker Records it sits in the relatively small town of Allentown PA (at least compared to nearby Metropolis Philadelphia) but is 99% vinyl and jam-packed with good stuff. The specialty of the store is definitely punk/hardcore but unlike other stores the stores really round out the other sections. The jazz and soul record sections are not particularly huge, but they're stocked full of good records, a lot of which I had never seen before (the more record stores you go to the less likely it is for this to happen). The store also had its share of tougher-to-find breakbeat classics. And the dollar section yielded some strong results, which is something I can't say is true in many places I go. I'll be going back soon, as a matter of fact!

Tracklist:
1. Big Brown Drums - The Drum Set
2. Aquarius - Gal McDermot
3. Love is Love - Titanic
4. At the Soul-In - Count Yates
5. You Are the Sunshine of my Life - Gene Russell
6. Put Your Gun Down Brother - Riot
7. The Village Street Choir - ABC's
8. Happy Children - Osibisa
9. Miles Beyond - Mahavishnu Orchestra
10. Regiment - Brian Eno and David Byrne

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This podcast is focused on looking for rekkids and the stores that have those rekkids. For a long time, whenever I travel anywhere (business, personal, to see friends) one of the first things I do is look up the record stores in town. I've even taken a few trips where the sole purpose was hitting up record stores, staying in motels for the evening after a day of flipping through record bins. Whenever I do research for record stores in an area I usually end up relying on some web site done back in 2001 that hasn't been taken down yet and references long-extinct record havens... So I'm going to do my best to talk about record stores all over the U.S., the records in them and whatever else is along the way. Starting with episode 16 I'll be moving to the West Coast, but the podcasts themselves won't change - I've visited a lot of great record stores East of the Mississippi so let's see what the West has to offer.

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