Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Vinyl Distractions

Indoor Safari front cover – it features a photo of an older woman seated in a chair, surrounded by jungle-type greenery. She has straight, very dark hair with bangs, just shoulder length, and is earing a leopard-spotted sleeveless jumpsuit. She holds up a champagne glass, as if in a toast, in her right hand; her left hand is pressed to her hip, her wrist covered in various bangle bracelets. 2

'20s / Catchup / Pop

Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari

Since I picked up a pile of used Nick Lowe records in the early 1990s, the rest of my Lowe collection was by way of CD. And all of my Los Straitjackets albums have...

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...