Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Category: Blues

Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers front cover showing Hound Dog Taylor, a black man with a big smiling expression, wearing a jaunty narrow-brimmed hat, looking off to his right as he plays an electric guitar, seated, with a slide on his pinky finger. He is photographed in front of a rough backdrop. The photo is in black and white. 0

'70s / Blues / Catchup

Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers

Hey there, 2025! Let’s see if we can move through this vinyl collection with some speed, shall we? Elsewise, I shall never catch up. Like your boogie electric and stompin’? Then Hound Dog Taylor...

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...