Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Author: cjvinyl

Byrds Greatest Hits front cover 0

'60s / Folk-rock / Pop

The Byrds — Greatest Hits

True confessions time. This 1967 collection, which I bought well-used in 1980, is the only Byrds album I ever owned, until quite recently. Did I love this record, and play it endlessly? I did....

Keep On Moving Front Cover 0

'60s / Blues

The Butterfield Blues Band — Keep On Moving

This was actually my first Paul Butterfield album, picked up just a year ago as part of my late-blooming Butterfield/Bloomfield/Kooper fascination. This 1969 release is more of the kind of horn-based soul that filled...

In My Own Dream front cover – very much of its time 3

'60s / Blues

The Butterfield Blues Band — In My Own Dream

I found this just two weeks ago, on my first trip ever to Sound House Records, a relatively new record store in the old home district of Troy, NY that I had tried but...

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'60s / Psychedelic / Rock

The Byrds — Fifth Dimension

I wrote back in January about how I really came to owning much of The Byrds catalog very late. I had the Greatest Hits collection from 1967. My college roommate had this record, and...

East-West cover with Sundazed promo stickers 0

'60s / Blues / Colored Vinyl

The Butterfield Blues Band – East-West

I’ve known about Sundazed Records, the reissue label inexplicably based in the obscure Hudson Valley town of Coxsackie, for a very long time, ever since I encountered a couple of fine surf music collections...

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'70s / Blues

Eric Burdon Band – Eric Burdon Band

Our last disc was by “The Eric Burdon Band.” This is just “Eric Burdon Band.” Budgetary issues? Label wouldn’t spring for a “The”? Well that, can’t be it – unless they used up all...

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'70s / Blues

The Eric Burdon Band – Sun Secrets

Here’s another new old record — new to me, old to the earth. Despite being a big Animals fan and, by not much extension, a big Eric Burdon fan, I don’t believe I ever...

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'20s / Alternative

Bully – Lucky For You

Like Bikini Kill, I found out about this by pulling a shift in my local record store and deciding to give it a listen. Unlike Bikini Kill, I had never even heard of Bully...