Decatur Book Festival 2008!

Consider this a friendly reminder that the Decatur Book Festival is very much almost just about to creep right up on us. Beginning in just a couple days (that's Friday, August 29th, to be exact), right in the heart of downtown Decatur, this year's festivities will feature three whole days of books, music and community goodness. Former poet laureate Billy Collins and lead Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood are just a couple of the numerous highlights. Don't miss out, folks! We're going to try to take in a few of the festivities ourselves, but remember that good ol' DCD will be going strong right down the street, should you need some plastic or vinyl discs (or DVDs or music books or televised baseball or friendly smiles or so on). Visit the official book festival website for more information:

The 2008 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival

New. Release. Tuesday.

New releases. We has them. Let us show you them:

Matthew Sweet
The Verve
Little Feat (featuring Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Chris Robinson, Bob Seger, Vince Gill, Bela Fleck and others too numerous to mention)
Blues Traveler
The Game
JJ Grey & Mofro
Johnny Cash and George Jones (live)
Delta Spirit
Rocket From the Crypt (rarities)
Eva Cassidy
Slipknot
Jonatha Brooke
...and more!

Flickr shout-out!

This Flick shout-out is brought to you by user name a bardis. Austin in particular enjoyed this shot because it reminds him that the cool air is on the way. Plus, Bruce Springsteen is a big fan of Decatur CD. What? It's true! (Probably.)

Last time on Flickr shout-out:
7/25/08

Randall Bramblett photos!

Hot off the presses! We had a great time. Thanks again to our friends at New West for setting this up. Enjoy the photos, folks...

Randall Bramblett in-store on Tuesday!

As promised in that last post and reported in a couple e-mail newsletters, Mr. Randall Bramblett will grace Decatur CD with his in-store performance presence tomorrow, Tuesday, August 19th at 6pm. Read what we wrote about him in the newsletter as a refresher and we'll see you Tuesday night:

Randall Bramblett - Tuesday, August 19th - 6pm
This legend has been releasing music for over 30 years, and we couldn't be happier that our friends at New West set this up...on a night he doesn't even have a show in town, no less! Bramblett played in Sea Level with Chuck Leavell, has toured with Widespread Panic and Steve Winwood, and has worked with other iconic music figures such as Robbie Robertson, Greg Allman and Levon Helm. He also has a new album that comes out that day called Now It's Tomorrow. We have it on a listening station right now, so stop by if you'd like to hear it in advance. And on Tuesday, come see the man R.E.M.'s Bill Berry calls, "the most talented and prolific songwriter I have the privilege of knowing." You'll be glad you did.
Visit Randall Bramblett's MySpace page.

New. Release. Tuesday.

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Yeah, yeah, we know, it's Monday. But it's better to just ignore that first day of the work week anyway, right? Something about a case of the Mondays... At any rate, there are a few gems coming out tomorrow, but the one we'd like to give a quick shout-out to presently is pictured above, Randall Bramblett's Now It's Tomorrow (fitting title, considering our early-week state of mind, ha!). Randall will be performing here in the store tomorrow at 6pm to celebrate his album release, so don't miss out. But we'll be typing a little more about that later tonight. For now, this week's releases:

Randall Bramblett
Stereolab
The Walkmen
Loudon Wainwright III
GZA
The Duhks
George Jones (unreleased)
Donavon Frankenreiter
The Fiery Furnaces (live)
Lee Scratch Perry
Don Caballero
Scott Walker (reissue)
Jennifer O'Connor
Jerry Douglas
Xavier Rudd
The Dandy Warhols
Pictures & Sound
Staind
The Stills
...and more!

A little blog love from Paste

A couple weeks ago, Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson said some nice things about Decatur CD on the magazine's site. He also posted a touching letter from one of loyal regulars, Bruce. Our hearty thanks go out to both Josh and Bruce. You can read the post here.

Speaking of Janelle Monae...

...guess who visited the store just moments ago? That's right, the lady with the new EP on our shelves this week stopped by this evening to pay ol' Decatur CD a visit. That's her pictured above with the gigantic Young Eliot. Click on the photo to see a bigger version. Anyone catch her at Variety last night opening for Gnarls Barkley? We heard it was amazing!

New. Release. Tuesday.

The new stuff is a bit sparse this week, but not without the jewels. Particularly, that ATL lady above, Janelle Monae. But that's not all! Read on, dear reader, read on:

Janelle Monae (EP, special edition)
Irma Thomas
Jonas Brothers
Bo Diddley (reissue)
David Sanborn
Johnny Cash (live)
Leon Ware
Inara George/Van Dyke Parks
...and more!

New. Release. Tuesday.

New releases! Coming tomorrow! Insert witty comments here!

Conor Oberst
Randy Newman
The Faint
Amy Ray
Lewis Black
Carla Bruni
Shirley Horn (live)
Brazilian Girls
Cal Tjader (live)
Ida
Reverend Pattons Damn Band
Mike Gordon (of Phish fame)
Laurie Berkner
Dave Stewart
Sam Phillips (reissue)
Oneida
Sarah McLachlan (reissue)
Dave Brubeck (live)
Carrie Rodriguez
David Vandervelde
Art Blakey (live, '72)
Verbena
Scott Walker (reissue)
...and more!