The vinyl revival continues in Baton Rouge. As 225 details in a story from the current issue, Dana Labat is behind the city’s newest record shop, Capital City Records, which opened last month at 4641 Perkins Road.
Labat tells 225 he has always loved music. As a child, he remembers listening to 45s and the first time he heard The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” As a young adult, he remembers seeing everyone from Procol Harum to Kiss perform in New Orleans dives.
“Back then, tickets to those concerts were $4,” he recalls.
The music-loving life slowed down when Labat got married and had a few kids, but he always had a love for collecting music. Now retired, the Gonzales resident decided to open his own record shop.
“The first day we opened, people were here before me,” he says. “It’s good to know that Baton Rouge will support another record store.” Read the full story.
