Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Category: ’70s

The Cream front cover – photograph of John Lee Hooker, a 60-something-year-old black man in a very dapper light colored three piece suit, a black silk or nylon shirt with an incredibly wide collar reaching to the shoulders of his suit jacket, and a tall, broad-brimmed light colored hat. He is seated at a diner table, a tabletop jukebox selector in the booth behind him. He has one arm resting on the table, the other on his knee, his left leg crossed on his right knee, he sits turned out from the booth. On the table is a heaping ice cream sundae covered in whipped cream with a cherry on top. 0

'70s / Blues / Catchup / Colored Vinyl

John Lee Hooker – The Cream

Well here’s a brand new, 2024 re-release of another John Lee Hooker album that I was previously unaware of – from 1977 (released in 1978), a live recording titled “The Cream,” but having nothing...

Nikki Giovanni The Way I Feel front cover 0

'70s / Catchup / Jazz / Spoken Word

Nikki Giovanni – The Way I Feel

I already wrote about my early experience with Nikki Giovanni, and my wife’s complete fascination with her, back in 2020. So here’s another incredible re-release by Modern Harmonic of a work from 1975. Could...

Maggot Brain front cover 1

'70s / Catchup / Funk / Psychedelic

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

As noted in the last few entries, I’ve actually added to my completely unnecessary workload on this blog by writing about records I’d already written about. My flawless system of leaving things on the...