Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Vinyl Distractions

Lightnin' Strikes front cover – featuring the title stacked to the left, and then Lightnin' Hopkins stacked to the right. Below that is a picture of Hopkins, a middle-aged Black man, wearing a cocked hat, sunglasses, and smoking a cigarette, looking straight at the viewer. 0

'60s / Blues / Catchup

Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Strikes

Here’s another really heavyweight reissue by Lightnin’ Hopkins – I mean, the cardboard has a weight not seen since the early ’60s. Very sturdy gatefold. Verve was always oriented toward quality production, and seems...

Jenny Lewis Voyager front cover, showing just a woman's torso in a colorful blazer, perhaps painted. It is light colored at the top, blue shifting to darker green moving down the jacket, then turning to white with a line of ocean waves and clouds. There are stars across both lapels. Her brown hair hangs down on her right side, lightly wavy. Her bare skin shows between the lapels, with a necklace that is cut-out letters reading "Jenny" above and "The Voyager," the album title, below. 0

'10s / Alternative / Catchup

Jenny Lewis – Voyager

As much as I’ve imposed my musical tastes on my kids through the years (what choice did they have?), sometimes it does come back in the other direction. One of their friends turned our...

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'20s / Blues / Catchup / Colored Vinyl

Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony

Several years into this project, I’m embarrassed: Case in point: I am currently in a phase I call “catchup” – having gotten through the artists beginning with ‘P’ in my collection (last spring!), I’ve...

Typical of Me front cover – the title and name of the artist, Laufey, are written in a simple pen text. Between them is a photograph of the singer, appearing to be a polaroid, with rather flat colors. She is posed against a blank wall, harsh shadow behind her. She is looking to her left, her head tilted down toward her left shoulder; her right arm is lightly clutching her left elbow. She is wearing a dark, low-cut top that is held closed only by two frogs about midway down. Two more frogs are open, exposing more skin below. 0

'20s / Catchup / Jazz

Laufey – Typical of Me

Just a bit more than a week after falling in love with “Bewitched,” I was back down the hill at Forever Changes for this little gem, “Typical of Me.” This is an EP from...