My Vinyl Collection – a life through Music – French Travel Books

Joni Mitchell – Blue

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded Blue in 1970 and it is one of the greatest album of all time, the cover is a perfect capture of the mood expressed on the vinyl record

Blue – Joni Mitchell Blue is in my top three albums of all time. It was not always that way, in fact it was a slow burner to say the least. I bought this album quite early on in my collection compiling. I gave that first copy away at the local record exchange. I justContinue reading “Joni Mitchell – Blue”

My Vinyl LP Record Collection – reviewing a life through Music

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Today, as I listen to the Bruce Springsteen ‘River’ album, I am wondering what it is that shapes our love of music and particularly a genre that we seem to stay with for life. To be fair I did come to Springsteen a little later in life although the seeds were already there for him to step into my collection. My reason for starting this journey through my past, to paraphrase Neil Young, was my father’s vinyl collection. My father died recently, and he left a vast collection of vinyl including 78’s which I suppose are technically shellac. His CD collection was even more extensive, but it was the vinyl that fascinated me.