Nashville, the place known as Music City, is far more than just the commercial center of modern Country Music. A home for many traditional and emerging genres, we visit the outstanding store Grimey's, as well as Vinyl Tap, an up-and-coming contender that serves up a well-curated vinyl collection as well as live performances in a combination record store and hospitable bar. We'll have our cameras on everything, including a surprise indie record store basement performance with the world-renowned Metallica, as well as a heartwarming story of when the one and only Taylor Swift jumped in to save her favorite indie record during the pandemic.

The Roadshow visits a town known as 'Hotlanta', where the Little Five Points District boasts not one but two great record stores. Eric Levin, co-founder of Record Store Day welcomes us to CRIMINAL RECORDS - who got their name from stealing hearts, and then goes a few doors down to the amazing WAX N' FACTS - a Crate Diggers Delight with a history that includes the B-52's and other New Wave bands. We also hit the west side of Atlanta to JB's RECORD LOUNGE, a store intimately acquainted with the burgeoning Hip Hop scene of Atlanta.

The city of Portland, Oregon is the home of no less than twenty independent record shops. It's unquestioned leader is Terry Currier's MUSIC MILLENIUM, a sprawling authoritative garden of musical delights. We're also going to visit several newer stores such as EVERYDAY MUSIC, JUMP JUMP, and MISSISSIPPI RECORDS.

Known as the birthplace of Grunge and Post-Punk Rock, it's a city of some vibrant record stores such as Pearl Jam & Brandi Carlisle's favorite - EASY STREET RECORDS, along with ZION'S GATE RECORDS, SONIC BOOM, LIGHT IN THE ATTIC, and we even managed a trip to the MUSEUM OF POP CULTURE, where they welcomed us and our cameras with welcoming arms.

We're fascinated when finding shoppes that have a unique focus or genre of music. The stores in this episode are examples of a singular vision devoted to that idea. These stores are always a labor of love often conceived and run by one person. Just a few that we visited are: SELECTOR RECORDS - EDM / DANCE, BLACK WATER - INDIE HEAVY METAL & PUNK DOMINO SOUND - WORLD MUSIC, and THIRD MAN RECORDS - ROCK SUPERSTAR JACK WHITE'S LABEL & RETAIL STORE.

It's impossible to imagine the birth of Hip Hop without the sonic reality of vinyl records. What started out as a Do-it-Yourself experiment by the club DJs in the 5 Burroughs of New York, is now a dominant reality worldwide. The Roadshow speaks to Hip Hop practitioners including Daryl McDaniels (aka: DMC) as well as other Hip Hop professionals.