Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, took place on Saturday, April 22, 2017.
Included among the special releases was Randy Newman’s Lonely at the Top: Studio Albums, 1968–1977, comprising Newman’s first five studio albums—Randy Newman, 12 Songs, Sail Away, Good Old Boys, and Little Criminals—on vinyl and a bonus 45 RPM of alternate versions of “You Can Leave Your Hat On” and “Last Night I Had a Dream.” The collection received a limited release of 1,000.
2017 marked the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day, which celebrates the unique culture surrounding over 1,000 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. To find out more about Record Store Day, head to recordstoreday.com.