This episode of "Music in Time" celebrates Record Store Day (April 22, 2023) with another musical-historical road trip. Host Evan McCormick brings listeners through RSDs of years past, starting with the day's origins in 2008 as a way to celebrate vinyl culture and independent record stores' place in local communities. Along the road to the present, Evan highlights some of his favorite selections from each year's list of special releases, rarities, and obscurities. It's a fun episode and a playlist worthy of a RSD "drop" itself. Hop in!
1. Supernatural Superserious - REM (RSD 2008)
2. On The Radio - Regina Spektor (RSD 2009)
3. True Love Cast Out All Evil - Roky Erickson with Okkervil River (RSD 2010)
4. Who's In Control - British Sea Power (RSD 2011)
5. Blood for Poppies - Garbage (RSD 2012)
6. Why Worry - Black Milk (RSD 2013)
7. God's Dream - Ringo Deathstarr (RSD 2014)
8. Cocain - John Martyn (RSD 2015)
9. Take This Hammer (Live) - The Felice Brothers (RSD 2017)
10. Never Been In A Riot - The Mekons (RSD 2018)
11. Crisis Dub - Lee "Scratch" Perry (RSD 2019)
12. Black Hole Sun - Brandi Carlile (RSD 2020)
13. Wild Child (Demo) - Lou Reed (RSD 2022)
14. The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones (RSD 2023)

Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places, and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Each broadcast will focus on a single album, detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release and moments in time that made certain music resonate anew. How is music shaped by these historical moments, and, in turn, how does it shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project, interviewing a range of people — from cabinet members to ordinary folks — about their memories of the Obama years. By night McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill, in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and Music in Time was born.