Hi Everyone,

This week, I wanted to shed a little light on my co-worker and dear friend of many years, Scott Register. Many of you may know “Reg” from his CIMS marketing days. If you have worked with him in the last decade, it has probably been on the ThinkIndie side of things, where he spends his days working to bring special products and releases to indie retail. But for many artists out there, Reg is the guy willing to give their new music a chance to come to life across the airways and into the homes and cars of many week after week on his Sunday morning radio show Reg’s Coffee House. Reg’s show started as a true passion for not only discovering new talent but also wanting to spread the word and share that music with others, and this past Sunday he celebrated 25 years on the air. His slogan “building your music library one song at a time” could not be a truer statement for so many.

I think (hope) he will be okay with me sharing this story. I knew of Reg for years because of the show and working in record stores and through Don and other mutual friends. I honestly think we didn’t really like each other at first. I thought “Ugh….that radio guy…”, because I was way too cool for school and thought “I don’t need THIS guy to tell me what to listen to” and he pretty much summed me up as “the mean girl that thinks she is way too cool for school”. I am pretty sure at the time, the one thing we could agree on was that we probably had no music in common. Fast forward a couple of years, and I am the new kid at CIMS and his co-worker. We are a small office and so I think we both were thinking we had to figure out a way to at least tolerate each other.

I would love to say it was our love of music, in the end, was what broke the wall down, but no- it was candy… a little golden bear in fact. I don’t remember how it all went down, but one day we were at lunch and Reg asked me if I knew about this place that was a wholesale candy supplier that was open to the public. We took a detour, and we were literally two kids in a candy store. We realized on that trip that we both loved Haribo gummy bears like no other candy and that they are really the ONLY gummy bears worth messing with and that was it- The wall came down.

Over the years I have been lucky to share some amazing musical moments with this guy (turns out we ended up loving a lot of the same music) and I can attest he is still as excited about new music today as the kid he was when he started all of this.

Congratulations on twenty-five years Reg! Here is to many more years of bringing music to the people in the many ways that you do!

If you want to drop him a line you can find him at reg@thinkindie.com and you can catch him every Sunday on Birmingham Mountain Radio.https://bhammountainradio.com/

Also, this is a great interview written up in our local this week:
https://www.al.com/life/2022/01/scott-register-on-influencing-alabama-music-lovers-for-25-years-i-tell-people-im-a-conduit.html

Here are the charts,
Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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