Skip to content
  • Home
  • What’s It All About
  • The Alphabet!
    • The Alphabet: A
    • The Alphabet: B
    • The Alphabet: C
    • The Alphabet: D
    • The Alphabet: E
    • The Alphabet: F
Vinyl Distractions
  • VinylDistractions on Instagram
  • VinylDistracts on Twitter

’50s

Howlin' Wolf cover
'50s

Howlin’ Wolf — Howlin’ Wolf

January 23, 2021January 22, 2021 cjvinyl

Until I bought this record about three years ago – a brand new reissue of his second album, with a gorgeous new cover but no hint of the iconic “rocking […]

I'm John Lee Hooker front cover
'50s

John Lee Hooker — I’m John Lee Hooker

January 15, 2021January 14, 2021 cjvinyl

This is a beautiful Spanish 180 gram reissue of a 1959 Vee Jay release. The tracks are from 1955-59, and, as with the other John Lee Hooker discs, they sound […]

John Lee Hooker Plays & Sings The Blues
'50s

John Lee Hooker — Plays & Sings the Blues

January 13, 2021January 12, 2021 cjvinyl

There are very few artists who mean more to me than John Lee Hooker. Ever since I really started to dig down deep, after seeing him perform in Saratoga in […]

The Complete Buddy Holly box set cover
'50s

Buddy Holly — The Complete Buddy Holly

January 11, 2021January 9, 2021 cjvinyl

Wow, I came close to completely missing this because the box sets are off on another section of the shelves. (In fact, I’ve got to double back and talk about […]

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter
'50s

Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter

September 19, 2020September 17, 2020 cjvinyl

I don’t have a lot to say about this one, primarily because we picked it out of the Forever Changes dollar bin last year entirely for the cover. I’m not […]

  Older posts

Search!

Social Stuff!

  • VinylDistractions on Instagram
  • VinylDistracts on Twitter

Recent Hits

  • Howlin’ Wolf — Howlin’ Wolf
  • Hot Tuna — The Phosphorescent Rat
  • Hot Tuna — Hot Tuna
  • John Lee Hooker — I’m John Lee Hooker
  • John Lee Hooker — The Real Folk Blues

Things We Said Today

  • cjvinyl on The Beatles – Abbey Road
  • Ed on The Beatles – Abbey Road
  • Richard A MacKinnon on Vinyl Distractions
  • cjvinyl on Blotto – Combo Akimbo
  • F Lee Harvey Blotto on Blotto – Combo Akimbo

Back Catalog

Grooves

Search!

Things We Said Today

Categories

Social!

  • VinylDistractions on Instagram
  • VinylDistracts on Twitter
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Alizee by aThemes