Jonathan started stopping by D8R not long after we opened and after a few visits his wife and young son started coming in too. Elizabeth and Jonathan are the kinds of folks you want to meet when you open a record store. They are friendly and interesting, they ask...

It has taken me a number of days to rest, recover and recharge after last weekend’s first anniversary event. I was hoping that I would get to see a bunch of folks that I have met over the last twelve months and I was hoping that all the balloons would draw a few new...

Back in 2007 I was living in Oxford Mississippi and our options for buying music was very limited. I could drive an hour or so to Memphis where there were some good shops. Or I could drive 45 minutes in a different direction to the Best Buy in Tupelo. Or I could drive...

When I am sitting by the register one of my favorite things to hear someone say is “I can’t believe someone traded this in!” Sometimes the customer is saying that to me, sometimes it is directed at someone they are with or no one in particular. That rush of excitement...

I have run into Jason numerous times over the years, usually looking around at Little Boxes Vintage, The Swing Station, The Forge or Moe's. Music was always the reason for the season so I was happy when he walked into Driver 8 Records the first time. I don't remember...

I know Sean Morris’ record collection fairly well, we co-host the radio show Ajax Diner Book Club every Sunday evening on KRFC. Recently he was kind enough to allow me and my camera into his home for a deep dive into his collection. –Charles Hale D8R: Tell us a little...

One of the most enjoyable experiences of the first three months of Driver 8 Records is having people in the store and hearing them get really excited about a particular record they find. Usually that excitement is directed at whoever they walked in with, sometimes it...

In February of 2003 I packed up my Honda Accord with whatever possessions I had left and moved from Ft. Collins back to Georgia. I had graduated from CSU a year and a half before, spent my share of time in a couple of restaurant kitchens and believed that I would have...

Last week one of our regular sold us a couple of records and one of them was Jay-Z’s masterpiece, The Black Album. It wasn’t until this morning that I was able to put the record on the turntable in the store and listen to an album that I have heard hundreds of times....

I like the odd ones, the off-beat artists that make music only they could make. Vic Chesnutt is certainly one of those artists that has created a musical world all his own. If you are familiar with Vic’s music perhaps it is because of the company that he has kept....