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The store’s Record Ranch area features vinyl old and new and on the weekends it’s a hotbed of activity. RELATED: Hundreds support local shops on Record Store DayĬactus has benefited from the vinyl explosion in a dramatic way. Vinyl sales totaled 9.2 million in 2014, according to a recent Nielsen report. In 2015 vinyl record sales are up as people are rediscovering the warmer sounds of vinyl after years of MP3s and streams.

Bishop has been with Cactus since the mid-‘80s.īishop was excited to tell the Houston Press’ John Nova Lomax at the time that the new shop was even about the same square footage as the old place, minus the video rental area. Bishop and a team of investors, including the Saint Arnold Brewing Company, would own and operate the shop. The store wouldn’t stay closed for long, reopening at its Portsmouth digs in late 2007 just in time for the holiday season.

That store closing sale was a boon for fans of rare movies and records.

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Bud Daily passed in 2010 and helped get ZZ Top its first major record deal.Īt the time of the original store’s closing, record stores across the country were shutting down in droves as people began to download their music instead of visiting their local record store to explore. The Daily brothers decided to retire from the record store business, which at the time wasn’t exactly doing so hot.ĭon Daily, who played a major role in George Strait’s early recording career, died in 2013. The old location shuttered in early 2006 and with it went decades of memories, like an all-too-brief Jeff Buckley in-store performance in 1994 that is still the stuff of local legend. RELATED: Houston's Cactus Music to close its doors (2006) The Shepherd location had a VHS and DVD rental area that film director and Houston native Wes Anderson haunted while he was working the script and casting 2001’s “The Royal Tenenbaums.” He also reportedly discovered the music for “Rushmore” (The Kinks, John Lennon, The Creation) on the record racks at Cactus years before. Another label, Starday, was the home of Roger Miller and George Jones among others.ĭaily’s kids Bud and Don opened up the Shepherd location in 1975. Pappy also ran record labels, including D Records, which over the years would be the home to acts like a pre-outlaw Willie Nelson and regional polka and Tex-Mex acts. “Our original store in the Heights, Daily's Record Ranch, regularly presented in-store events with the performers of The Louisiana Hayride including Hank Williams Sr.,” notes Cactus head honcho and co-owner Quinn Bishop. RELATED: Houston businesses that have served generations Camping supplies and hiking boots have replaced concert posters, box sets, and dusty vinyl.īut Cactus' roots go back decades to Harold “Pappy” Daily’s outpost in the Heights that opened in 1946.

That location is currently a Whole Earth Provision Co.