Soul Traveling

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Soul Traveling Episode 14 (Houston, TX)

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October 09, 2009 07:23 PM PDT

Destination: Houston, TX
Location: Black Dog Records

While not large compared to a lot of the record stores previously visited via Soul Traveling, Black Dog Records still has more than enough to hold your interest. The strength of the store is the Rock section, though large sections of Soul, Blues and Country (it is Houston, after all) are there too. The thing that stands out about this store is the condition and cleanliness - not only of the store but the records themselves. They are in NICE condition, and I believe all of them are cleaned by Cliff (owner). The selection is also not your standard records you find everywhere - probably due to the absence of dollar bins. While the podcast doesnt reflect it, I found a bunch of records there but did not include them because they don't fit the soul/jazz mold at all. The weirdest record of the trip was a country record by a group from Singapore - and the music is so authentic you wouldn't know by listening!

In terms of good ol' cheap grub in the city, there are Whataburgers everywhere (local fast food chain). They make pretty good burgers, but the real gem is their breakfast taquitos with your choice of ingredients. I've had a lot of breakfast burritos / tacos, and these are on par with the best. If you want to take a long drive for a great chicken fried steak, drive to Goodson's in Tomball. And another local chain - Pappasito's - makes what I think are the best fajitas.

Track Listing:
1. Lovin on Borrowed Time - Bobby Blue Bland
2. Capricorn - Cannonball Adderley
3. Soul Brothers Testify - Soul Senders
4. Cigrik - Mogollar
5. Destroy the Nihilist Picnic - The London Experiment
6. Waitin for the Bus - ZZ Top
7. Un Rayo Del Sol - The Chakachas
8. Sweet Potato Gravy - Maurice Simon
9. Right Back Where I started From - Fuzzy Haskins
10. The Mexican - The Baker Brothers
11. Ain't no Sunshine - Lyn Collins
12. Garbage Man - The Family Vibes
13. Super Duper Love - Sugar Billy
14. A Night in Tunisia (edit) - Art Blakey

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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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