Point of this post is to point you to a newly released tribute disc for the departed John Wicks of The Records.

I started listening to The Records in the mid to late 80s - picked up a cool looking cassette from the hometown discount store.  Here's a favorite track of mine from their 2nd album from 1980 called Crashes -

Sometime in late 2000s I interacted by email with one of the band's co-founders - John Wicks.  He was super nice and we exchanged a couple of emails.  He sent me a few discs with some demo music.  Very cool.

John passed  about 1 year ago while working on a new album.  The album's tracks were picked up by some of John's collaborators (including Peter Case and Al Stewart).  The album is called For The Record - A Tribute To John Wicks.  It can be ordered here.

Here's the track by Peter Case -