Buckley's Record Shop (feat. Randy Fox)

Lucy's Record Shop

In 2019, music writer Randy Fox discovered a long-forgotten nugget of info - sixteen years before Lucy’s opened its doors at 1707 Church Street in Nashville it was home to another record store called Buckley’s. Randy has an insatiable curiosity and an unbridled enthusiasm for music and history, so this story has lots of twists and turns. It starts in Kentucky and his discovery of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones in college, zigs into the history of mid-20th century radio and record shops, and zags to the use of urban planning as a tool for white supremacy. Chock full. Enjoy!

Randy Fox grew up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Currently managing editor of The Madisonian and an Editor-at-Large for The East Nashvillian, his writing has also appeared in Vintage Rock, Country Music, Record Collector, Journal of Country Music, Nashville Scene and many other publications. He is the author of Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story, a history of the renowned Nashville-based blues, soul and gospel record label. He is also a co-founder, President, and Program Director of independent, freeform radio station WXNA 101.5 FM in Nashville, where he hosts the weekly programs, Randy’s Record Shop and the Hipbilly Jamboree.

Episode Music:

• Lambchop - So I Hear You’re Moving (Intro)
• Deford Bailey - Davidson County Blues
• Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips
• Etta James - Seven Day Fool (Live at the New Era Club
• I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table / "We Shall Not Be Moved" - The Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs and Scenes of Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Additional Mentions/Links:

• Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story by Randy Fox
• “The Emperor of Grooves,” by Randy Fox, The East Nashvillian
• “Love at 33 1/3: Reflections on a Year of Writing About Record Stores,” by Randy Fox, The Nashville Scene
• Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
• WXNAfm.org
• One Mile North by Campbell Haynes (Belmont Law Review, Volume 8, Issue 1: 2020)
• The Highway to Segregation by Sabre J. Rucker (Masters Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2016)
• “Racist planning shaped our city; conscientious planning can help undo its mistakes,” By Adrien Weibgen, New York Daily News
• Harvey’s Nashville Sells 39¢ Singles, Billboard, May, 5, 1962
• Randy’s Record Shop. Ernie’s Record Mart. Dot Records
• DJ Gene Nobels
• The Children by David Halberstam
• JeffersonStreetSound.com
• Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University (now Tennessee State University)
• Diane Nash, Rev.James Lawson, Congressman John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, C.T. Vivian, Rip Patton
• Night train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues 1945–1970, Country Music Hall of Fame, Michael Gray & Daniel Cooper, curators.
• Cover Photo of Randy Fox, Scott Greenwalt Photography PLAYLISTS & RADIO SHOWS
• The Best of Excello Records
• The Excello Story, Vol. II (1955 - 1957)
• The Excello Records Story, Vol. I (1952 - 1955)
• Randy’s Record Shop (Randy’s Radio Show) - Mondays, 7:00am–9:00am CT, Archive and Live on WXNAFM.org
• Hipbilly Jamboree! (Randy’s Radio Show) - Sunday 3 - 5 PM Archive and live on WXNAfm.org

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