Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Tagged: record collectors

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'70s / Blues

John Hammond — Source Point

John Hammond, man. I wrote just a few entries back about how we discovered John Hammond, at a day long blues festival at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in 1990. I don’t even know if...

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'20s / Blues

Buddy Guy – The Blues Don’t Lie

The last few years have been just remarkable for a number of seriously mature (as they used to say, superannuated) artists who have been getting the respect and opportunities they deserve to put out...

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'10s / Blues

Buddy Guy – The Blues Is Alive and Well

I first started becoming aware of Buddy Guy around 1990. The gamble I had taken on going to grad school was paying off, and things were looking good. We had just moved to Albany,...

Album cover of Buddy Guy's "First Time I Met The Blues" 5

'50s / '60s / Blues

Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues

I’ve already gushed about how amazing Buddy Guy was, and what my discovery of his music meant to me. There was the first time I saw Buddy Guy, playing a major blues festival headlined...

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'70s / Pop / Rock

The Guess Who – Road Food

Growing up when I grew up, of course I was exposed to The Guess Who. You didn’t get through the ’70s without knowing Guess Who songs, and probably even liking them. The Canadian band...

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'80s / New Wave / Pop / Synth

Gruppo Sportivo – Design Moderne

When you’re on a record jaunt with some friends at a store that you won’t get to often and you run across an album by an old favorite band that you have never heard...