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Did you know of Melanie’s involvement when you bought the record? You mentioned purchasing a Neighborhood Records album as a teenager. That’s a great headline to see but it also tells you a story: it didn’t use to be that way. In the 1970’s it was probably 98% men in these kinds of executive positions. A headline in Billboard Magazine said women comprise half the Recording Academy’s executive staff. Women got passed by that should have moved up the ladder. Do you think Melanie’s role at the beginning of her career was minimized because she’s a women in music? She has penned about twenty hits and was awarded an Emmy for her lyrics. Since the launch of her career she has released about 40 albums on her own. Melanie’s work to open Neighborhood Records mid the 1970 music industry scene was ground-breaking. If you’re a fan, to be able to have this record is really a treat. And the fact that this thing had been sitting away for 45 years, and nobody had had the opportunity to hear it was pretty unique. It seemed like a unique pairing that was going to result in sounding really great, which is what it was. For this album in particular, I was really looking forward to it because I am also a big Incredible String Band fan, too.

She’s going to be mentioned for her songs and her involvement at Woodstock. When you look at the history of rock and roll, and popular music, and music in the future-she’s always going to be mentioned. She definitely played a role in a lot of people’s musical lives. Why did you open the Record Store Day door to Article 27 Music?

In this article he discusses Melanie’s role as the first mainstream female artist to become an independent record label owner in the 1970’s, the importance of music rights in today’s industry, and how some of the old 1970 music business model could still be healthy today. When the RSD 2020 dust settled, I had a chance to interview Currier. The record sold pretty fast, and I’m pretty sure it’s all sold out. Melanie and Robin Williamson accompany him. Two songs have never been released: “We’re Through” written and performed by the Emmy-award winning songwriter Melanie, and “Desert Song” by Mike Heron. The Record Store Day 2020 vinyl drop consists of ten tracks. We were able to recover and clean the tapes, and miraculously restore the music. Larry Crane the editor of Portland‘s internationally consumed Tape Op Magazine encouraged me to team up with Kevin Przybylowski, owner of the Sonicraft A2DX Lab in Red Bank, New Jersey. It’s those abandoned tapes that inspired me to found Article 27 Music.

In the late 1970’s the recordings were left in a family member’s garage, then moved by a concerned relative into another friend’s barn. Melanie Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London 1974 is a burgundy special-edition vinyl that came from the original concert recordings. Article 27 deals with the human right songwriters inherently have to protect their moral and material interests resulting from their artistic production. We take our name from one of the articles in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year it's estimated more than one million music lovers were buying the industry's newest vinyl drops.ĭespite the year’s challenges including two Record Store Day date changes, RSD 2020 brought the first vinyl drop from my Oregon-based music rights group named Article 27 Music.

It became an immediate international event. RSD’s purpose was to spike sales while showcasing the attributes of vinyl. In 2007 history was made when the three coalitions launched Record Store Day. The Coalition of Independent Music Stores inspired two more American record store coalitions. Digital downloads and Napster had cut across the income streams of independent stores across the world. In 1995, with a small group of fellow store owners, Currier co-founded CIMS, the first-ever coalition of independent record stores. Music Millenium’s owner Terry Currier has spent a life working in the independent music store business.