Permanent Records

Lance Barresi founded Permanent Records in 2006 and is the owner and operator of Permanent Records' Roadhouse, the first-ever live music venue, bar, and record store in Los Angeles. He is also the curator of the Brown Acid and Scrap Metal compilation series and the A&R representative for all RidingEasy Records reissue projects. Additionally, Barresi is a professional DJ and a longtime, dedicated collector of obscure and rare 45s and LPs.

All playlists and tracks by Permanent Records

The Soothing Southern Rock Comedown

Song Of David — Tennessee River Crooks
Autumn — Raisin' Kane
Dreamer — Clinton River Road
Soul Searchin' — Crossroads
Going Down — Dixie Peach
Won't Go Alone — Eclipse
Luck In Your Life — Sky-Dog
Willin' — Gene Parsons
Day To Day Living — Kill Devil
I'm So Confused — Amber Road
Go Back Home — Southern Trust
Got To Do Something — Missouri Dirt
Once In A Life Time — The Rusty Budde Band
Words — Kudzu Band
Mystic Lady — Missouri
Nothing Of A Kind — T.S. Truck
Carolina — Legend
You Secure My Insecurity — Otter Creek
I Can't Stay — Shadow Fox
Searchin' — South Paw
Ain't No Sunshine — The Roadside Band
Key Of Love — Lodestar
Way Back Home — The Robert Coady Band
Woman Gone Away — The Lucky Road Band
Ain't Wastin' Time No More — Strawbridge
Doin' What I Wanna Do — Tree Fox
Northwest Bound — Tukanon

The Rural Swampy Hoedown

Sumpin' Funky Going On — Donnie Fritts
Polk Salad Annie — Tony Joe White
California Women — Hoyt Axton
Funky Junky — Charlie Daniels
Shotgun Woman — Travis Wammack
Harlan County — Jim Ford
Swamp Fever — Open Road
Ridin' On the L and N — Bintangs
Okolona River Bottom Band — Bobbie Gentry
Me & Mr. Hohner — Bobby Darin
Goodbye Baby — Van Morrison
The Price Of Love — Tobias Wood Henderson
Fire and Brimstone — Link Wray
Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine — Larry Jon Wilson
Gypsy Pilot — Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band
Mississippi Delta — Mike Sharpe
Keep On Smilin' — Wet Willie
Do On My Feet (What I Did In The Street) — Dewey Terry
I Been Hoodoo — Dr. John
Burnin' — Spider
Tombstone Shadow — Six Pak
Felicia-Jo — The Rodeo
Gator Road — Stampeders
Suzie Q — Smack
Louisiana Louie — Copley, Jeffries And Ried
People In Dallas Got Hair — Side Of The Road Gang
Better To Find Out For Yourself — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Nobody's Fool — Dan Penn
The Weight — Jackie DeShannon
Apart Of Me — Country Funk
Are Inlaws Really Outlaws? — Sir Douglas Quintet
OK Sam — Gospel Oak
Take It With You — Crybaby
Crazy Mama — J.J. Cale
Summer Brings The Sunshine — Jimmy Carter
The Last Chant — Jim Stafford
Baby, I'm A Star — Helen Reddy
Go Up Moses — Roberta Flack
Get It Up For Love — Stephen Michael Schwartz

November 2025

Travelling Lady — Manfred Mann Chapter Three
Trieulogy — Kak
No Other — Gene Clark
Moons and Cattails — Linda Perhacs
A Sailor's Life — Fairport Convention
Images Of April — Pearls Before Swine
This Morning — Gila
Can You Travel In The Dark Alone — Gandalf
I'm Trippin' Alone — Steve Akins
Call The Doctor — J.J. Cale
Dark Star — Crosby, Stills, & Nash
The Lady Falls — Robert Lee
If I Had The Strength — Timbercreek
For You and Me — Randy Steven
The Birds — Rick Cuevas
Nowhere — Cy Timmons
It'll Take A Long Time — Sandy Denny
Sentimental Lady — Bob Welch
Mourning Dove — Mark Levy
Muskrat Candlelight — Willis Alan Ramsey
Western Troubador — Jim Alexander
Strawberry Mountain — Wild Country
I Don't Want To Love Ya Now — Mistress Mary
Weepin' — Cascada

October 2025

Queen St. Gang — Arzachel
The Black Riders/Flight To The Ford — Bo Hansson
Jungle Talk — Bob Chance
Contact — Brigitte Bardot
Cosmic Sea — The Mystic Moods
Massaï — Goom
Ten Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box — Twink
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) — Hawkwind
Errors Of My Way — Wishbone Ash
Song Of A Gypsy — Damon
Lazy River Blues — Peacepipe
Step Out On The Sea — Sons Of Thunder
It Is So Nice To Get Stoned — Ted Lucas
R.N.B. II — Rob Carr & Bill Kahl
The Window — Steve Miller
Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath
Teenage Romance — Ted Stilles
Sunrise — Michael Fitzgerald
Bury Me High — Chris Anthony Tsefalas
Winter's Raft — Tom Lucas
Guitargraphy — Chuck Hammer
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard — Ralph Lundsten
August Apathy — Joe Prichard and Gibraltar
The Porpoise Song — The Monkees
Late Night — Barrett, Syd
Corpse — Shinki Chen & His Friends
How Does It Feel To Feel — The Creation
Get High — Gran Am
I Can't Change — Jeff Liberman
Shut Down — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Rambling In My Blood — Tim Emery
About Losing — Albatross
Hangin' Tree — Mad Jack

September 2025

Weed Burner — Yancy Derringer
Alabama — Raw Power
Vacuum — Flood
It Don't Matter At All — Wax
Poor Souls — Big John K
Cod'ine — The Wizards From Kansas
Spaced Out — Stu Garner
Riverside — Bent Wind
All Along The Watchtower — Better Daze
.45 Caliber Man — Jack Hardy
Unidos Estamos — Renacimiento
Sing Your Song — Edge
It's Never Too Late — Charmer
Home — Band X
Here And Gone — Promise
Good Life — John T. Leach Band
Starman — Gary Del Vecchio
Rock & Roll — Cal
Before The Dawn — Brotherhood of Peace
Three O'Clock — Ice
Prayer — Granicus
Sons Come To Birth — Fraction
Windy City — Demian
Seems To Me — Highway
Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath
August Apathy — Joe Prichard & Gibraltar

Test

My Hawaiian Home — Bobby Brown
Some Kind Of Change — John Braheny
Spinnin' Round — Steve Weichert
Santa Cruz — Eddie Callahan
What You Do To Me — Sugarcane
Baby — Donnie & Joe Emerson
Five In The Afternoon — The Captec Project
It Can Do It For Me and Theme IV A Detective — The B.B. Jackson Band
The King — Sansone & McDonald With Linda Hankee
Too Much To Lose — Jan Hammer Group
Blue Skies — Windrose
Sweet Tooth — The Keith Anderson Band
Can You Feel Me — Sir John Roberts
Ooh Baby (Make Me Feel So Young) — Terry Reid
My Stove's On Fire — Robert Lester Folsom
My Head's In A Good Place — Crybaby
Nobody On The Streets — Timbercreek
Plain And Sane And Simple Melody — Ted Lucas
Marcy — Norman Greenbaum
You Showed Me — The Turtles
Cast Your Fate To The Wind — Gary Schneider
It Didn't Take Too Long — Gary Higgins
Oval Room — Blaze Foley
Time To Get Loose — Missouri Dirt
Take It Or Leave It — The Macks Creek Band
Tarna's Song — Haywire
Where's The Country Gone — Southern Steel
This Time — Short Beer
Uncle Blue — Frank Ianni
Nightheart — Mike Fornatale