Richard Thompson Returns! The acclaimed English singer/songwriter, and highly influential guitarist is back with a fantastic new album called Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes (in stores now from New West Records). In his second appearance on our podcast, Thompson gets granular on the process of songwriting, and shares candid revelations about the singers who inspired him, memories of fallen contemporaries like John Martyn and Nick Drake, and the time he shared a hot tub with a Beatle.

Happy November, and have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole list and start planning your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

80-year-old Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest living American songwriters, and he's just released a brand new album, Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs Of Jimmy Webb (out now on the Sun Records label!), which finds him dusting off, rewriting, and recording a set of older songs that were pitched to legends but for various reasons, never recorded. Until now. He's joined by fellow greats such as Graham Nash, Amy Grant, Michael McDonald, Beth Neilsen Chapman, and more. Jimmy is also the subject of a Great Performances special, Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter which debuts on PBS on October 30th.

And have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Last week, EELS released their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened, and it's another in a long line of albums packed with songs that feature beautifully human, often broken, characters who flow from the eloquent and imaginative pen of songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as simply, E.

E joins Paul to talk about the new songs, some old songs, his process, his life, and the many other humans that made him what he is today, which is one of the best and most prolific American songwriters in our midst, and the subject of a forthcoming Judd Apatow-produced documentary.

And have you heard the news, Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!