Turntabling.net is pleased to announce the itinerary for Vinyl Road Rage #4, the six-state indie record store blogging trip featuring more than twenty record shops from Illinois to Texas and back again.
Vinyl Road Rage begins December 8, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Turntabling’s Joe Wallace will drive from Chicago to Bloomington Indiana, Nashville, Tennessee, Memphis Tennessee, Little Rock Arkansas, Norman Oklahoma, Dallas Texas, plus destinations in Fort Worth and Denton Texas before heading back north to Tulsa Oklahoma, Kansas City Missouri, Springfield Illinois and back home to Chicago.
Vinyl Road Rage is Turntabling’s annual blogging road trip in search of the coolest record stores along the way. Every day features blog posts and highlights from the road. This trip features some additional content–in addition to the daily updates, there will be video coverage and reviews of the best/weirdest vinyl finds from the road, making this the most elaborately covered Vinyl Road Rage yet.
The six-state road trip schedule runs from December 8 to December 21 and the itinerary below is subject to change based on weather, delays or other unavoidable factors. Vinyl Road Rage will visit a wide range of indie record shops along the way, including but not definitely no limited to:
TD’s CDs and LPs Bloomington, IN
Grimey’s Nashville, TN
The Groove Nashville, TN
Goner Records Memphis, TN
Shangri-La Records, Memphis, TN
Arkansas Record-CD Exchange Little Rock, AR
Guestroom Records Norman, OK
Bill’s Records Dallas, TX
Good Records Dallas, TX
Recycled Books Records CDs Denton, TX
Starship Records and Tapes Tulsa, OK
Zebedee’s RPM Kansas City, MO
Vinyl Renaissance Kansas City, MO
Recycled Records Springfield, IL
Turntabling welcomes suggestions for other indie record shops to visit along the way–just drop us a line to jwallace (at) turntabling (dot) net.
This year’s trip is also unique as a tour diary will be kept for publication in a book project to be announced at the end of Vinyl Road Rage #4. Stay tuned for details on that project.
Vinyl Road Rage began in 2008 and has run at least once per year ever since. This year’s trip is the most elaborate and longest one to date. For more information, or to schedule interviews or media opportunities about Vinyl Road Rage #4, contact Joe Wallace at jwallace (at) turntabling (dot) net.