As Record Store Day 2016 approaches, we asked some of our artists and staff what their Top 5 favorite albums of all time were. Admittedly, this is nearly an impossible question for a music lover to answer, so we left 'favorite' up for interpretaton. Here are what some of them said were their 'favorite' albums.
Charlie Parr
1. Texas Songster – Mance Lipscomb
2. Free Again – Robert Pete Williams
3. Mirror Man – Captain Beefheart
4. Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
5. Volume 1 of the Complete Recorded Works – Memphis Minnie
Nicky Mehta, of The Wailin' Jennys
1. The Walking – Jane Siberry
2. Outlandos D'amour – The Police
3. Hats – The Blue Nile
4. Lloyd Cole – Lloyd Cole
5. Fat City – Shawn Colvin
*****Honorable Mentions
The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
1000 Kisses – Patty Griffin
14 Songs – Paul Westerburg
Mule Variations – Tom Waits
Anything Anytime Anywhere – Bruce Cockburn
Dale Watson
1. Nightlife – Ray Price
2. Live at Panther Hall – WIllie Nelson
3. Life's Like Poetry – Lefty Frizell
4. For the Last Time – Bob Wills
5. It Could Happen to You – Chet Baker
Teresa Williams
1. All Lucinda Williams (Hey, I'm not Solomon)
2. Percy Sledge one with "At the Dark End of the Street" (vinyl: I hurt myself with that one)
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced (I am what I am)
4. Complete Hank Williams (This is a box set, but again, I'm not Solomon)
5. Maria Callas Sings Puccini – Maria Callas
6. All of the Blues (That's just the way it is.)
Ray Bonneville
1. Flyo on the Bayou – The Neville Brothers
2. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
3. Stand Back Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band – Charlie Musselwhite
4. Naturally – JJ Cale
5. Natural Blues – Taj Mahal
Staff Picks
Luke Welsh – Marketing Director
1. American Graffiti Soundtrack – Various
2. Weasels Ripped My Flesh…RZZZZZ – The Mothers of Invention
3. From Hawaii – Johnny Pineapple & Company
4. Sabotage – Black Sabbath
5. Clambake Soundtrack – Elvis Presley
Brandon Henry – Digital Czar
1. Into the Great Wide Open – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
2. Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters
3. A Ghost is Born – Wilco
4. Boston – Boston
5. Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
Jon Rodine – Customer Service/Shipping
*Top 5 recent vinyl buys
1. Only Visiting This Planet – Larry Norman
2. Big Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor arranged and conducted by Tak Shindo
3. Sing Heart Songs – Ray Price
4. Music of the Devil God Cult – Strange Sounds from Dunwich, The Dunwich Horror
5. The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band