Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Tagged: vinyl

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'70s / Blues

John Mayall — The Latest Edition

This 1974 release from John Mayall (without the band name) was my first foray into Mayall, after years of simply ignoring the band. While considered legendary, given their lack of hits I had truly...

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'70s / Blues / Jazz / Live Album

John Mayall — Moving On

So it happens that I’m touching on this one before I leave the ‘M’ section of my collection, but in fact this begins a long series of “catch-up” entries – the records that I’ve...

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'60s / Blues

John Mayall’s Blues Breakers — Crusade

I do wish there were some consistency as to whether “Blues Breakers” is one word or two, but perhaps that’s a lot to ask of British musicians. On this album it’s two words, so...

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'60s / Blues

John Mayall — Blues Breakers

For the longest time, I just paid no attention to John Mayall. My British blues was mostly filtered through The Animals and the like – that particularly British turn on R&B. For my blues,...

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'80s / Pop

Christine McVie — Christine McVie

Following the alphabetization I learned in elementary school, Christine McVie should have come before Manfred Mann. But . . . that’s not what I did, so here she is. In the course of my...