What do you love about music?

To begin with,

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world.

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago sometimes.

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

This week on the world's only rock and world talk show,

Jim and I welcome one of America's great live bands, The Hold Steady.

Plus, we'll review the much anticipated new album. great live bands to hold steady.

Plus we'll review the much anticipated new albums from Bruce Springsteen and Andrew Bird.

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time to welcome our newest affiliate.

That would be K-S-U-T which serves southwestern Colorado, Durango, to be specific, a gym, a fine radio station.

And normally when we welcome one of our newest affiliates,

we like to play a piece of music from that area,

but we also periodically like to check in with one of the local record stores

to see how one of those mom and

pops is doing in this brave new world of the music industry.

Yeah, what's going on in the southwestern corner of Colorado?

They reached part in New Mexico.

We wanted to find out.

So we're going to talk to Robert Stapleton, the owner of Southwest Sound in Durango, Colorado

record store there.

Where exactly, Robert, are you in relation to Ignacio, which is where K-S-U-T is.

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