Inner Sanctum Records

Then Austin Monthly did an article on Jim Franklin and his armadillos. One of the pieces of art featured was the iconic Inner Sanctum poster.

How Jim Franklin Turned the Armadillo into Texas' Counterculture Mascot - Austin Monthly Magazine Austin’s most famous visual artist looks back at the stories, chance encounters, and musical legends that inspired his influential pieces.

Interestingly August is the annivesary month for Inner Sanctum. This year 2021 TWO magazine articles came out that were about or mentioned Inner Sanctum. Alcalde, the Texas-Exes mag, did an article

The Way Back: Indie Darling From 1970 until 1997, Inner Sanctum Records thrived on West 24th Street as a place for UT students and Austinites to expand their musical minds at the first—and eventually oldest—indie record store in Texas. Opened three weeks after Armadillo World Headquarters, the two businesses flourished in ...

Customers and friends from the 70's

Inner Sanctum justed had it's 47th (OMG!) anniversary since it opened. Here's a video I did for the 40th celebration that tells the story. Enjoy!
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Inner Sanctum Records: From 1970 to 1982 (2010) Inner Sanctum Records: From 1970 to 1982 (2010) (Complete full length program) On August 28, 1970 Joe Bryson opened Inner Sanctum Records located in Bluebonn...

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Here's one for the good ol' days that Inner Sanctum was a part of. Keep an eye out and you just might see that ol' school Inner Sanctum gang.

Old School Austin Groove This groovin' track is a collaboration between cosmic rockers Shawn Sahm (son of Sir Doug) and Kevin Russell (Shinyribs). It was written and recorded for the…

I was out of Inner Sanctum before Loreena McKennitt started her musical career, but we would have sold a LOT of her albums (and it would have sounded great on our wonderful in store music system). Anne & I, and a lot of friends, were completely entranced with her performance at Paramount Theatre last week on March 4th, 2016. Fantastic!

The core back together again at Doug Sahm's Groover's Gathering at the Broken Spoke.

Mick Fleetwood saying "thanks" to Joe Bryson, the proprietor of Inner Sanctum Records, for the support of Inner Sanctum as a Billboard reporting station back in the 70's and early 80's.

http://youtu.be/vepNpasvUkk
For those of you that visited Inner Sanctum, you surely will remember Richard, our mostly decidedly informed and definitely most opinionated person behind the counter. (Think "High Fidelity" the movie). Sadly Richard left us recently very suddenly. We all were a bit stunned. I did a video for his memorial celebration. This is the last 15 minutes of about a 90 minute show (if you would like a copy, let me know).

Fond farwell Richard Dorsett This is the last portion of a larger video I did for Richard Dorsett's memorial celebration. If you would like a copy of the full video(no charge), contact m...