Record stores in Knoxville

Vinyl hunting in Knoxville, Tennessee? There are 4 record shops mapped here. That's 4 record shops mapped around Knoxville. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Knoxville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Basement Records and Wild Honey Records, plus Pick 'n' Grin. If a record shop's missing from Knoxville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Knoxville record lineup

4 in Knoxville:

What the map tells us about record stores in Knoxville

None of the 4 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The one mapped record store sits on 8426 Kingston Pike — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Knoxville record crawl

The efficient Knoxville record crawl strings these together: Basement Records, Wild Honey Records, Pick 'n' Grin, and Open Chord Music on 8426 Kingston Pike — 4 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Knoxville

A few things worth knowing before you work through Knoxville's record stores:

• Don't skip the 45s at Basement Records. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Check for warps in the shop at Wild Honey Records. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• The listening station is the test. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Learn to spot reissues. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Knoxville — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Knoxville can take a while to appear. The 4 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.