In his new memoir Change of Season, John Oates describes  his journey from the suburbs of Philadelphia to the heights of superstardom in the 1980s and 90s as half of Hall & Oates. The duo released seven platinum albums and reached the Billboard Hot 100 34 times in a career stretching back to 1973. But the John Oates heard here, in a live interview at the Nashville Public Library, is an artist seeking his muse with total freedom. And that’s a sound that’s fit right in with Nashville’s songwriting Americana scene.

This wide-ranging episode introduces guest co-anchor Whitney Matheson, reports on how Nashville's growing number of vinyl retailers is getting ready for Record Store Day 2017 and re-airs an NPR feature by Jewly Hight on Bay Area to Nashville transplant band Front Country.