Greetings O’ Noble Music Collectors,
Record Store Day 2009 rocked unmercifully thanks to y’all and thousands like you all over this fair land. Happily there’s no rest for the weary as every day is record store here  on the corner where we work and it’s another batch of snazzy releases like the funk-grunge awesomeness of the new Booker T. Jones called “Potato Hole” where in he is backed by the Drive-by Truckers and Neil Young is featured on blistering lead guitar throughout. Oh yes you read that right. If that wasn’t enough to knock us to our knees it’s a run of three in-store concerts heading this way Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday. More cool vinyl arriving daily, so what’s a store to do? Me, I’m playing that new PONTIAK cd everyday, twice, followed by the new Westbound Train “Come and Get It” for my Ska-Jazz-Soul addiction and then, I’ll just spin That Booker T thing again. Then maybe Wayne Hancock’s “Viper Of Melody” just in from the folk’s in Chicago at Bloodshot Records — gotta keep our twang certification in force ya know.

Most of all we at Horizon Records want to shout a big sloppy hug of THANKS to everyone who helped make our Record Store Day/Annual Yard Sale event a smashing success. What a boogie it was! Full crowd here by 8:15am, by 10am I didn’t even know what day it was. Y’all showed up and grabbed bargains and freebies, shopped and most of all let us know that an independent record store is a valued part of the community. I heard lot’s of anecdotes from regulars, and not a few out of towners who returned to visit and a growing batch of new customers or recent Greenville arrivees who were just discovering the Horizon way of life for the first time. The bands The Jaywalkers and Afromotive played to cheering capacity crowds; Culture Prophet mellowed our fevered brow as we wound down the day. Wow, it was a day for the books.

We still have some Horizon T-shirts a smathering of the limited edition items to sell and very few Yeproc samplers are lurking about. For now that’s it. Come See Us.

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