Ram John Holder: Black London Blues
The incomparable WFMU blog has an interesting out-of-print blues record by Ram John Holder available for download.
From WFMU
“Black London Blues” was an LP recorded by the acclaimed British stage, screen, and TV actor Ram John Holder in 1969. I bought it as a youngster (my copy is on the US Phillips label) for 47 cents in a Woolworth’s cutout bin. The cover is a moribund B&W photo of a gussied-up Ram in an abject ghetto; no liner notes, no personnel listing. Every cut is titled the “(something) Blues”, and the track playing times on the label are different than those on the cover by several seconds, and I think neither is correct. My pre-pubescent friends and I used to howl with laughter listening to it (even though the cover scared the hell out of us), and, as with many things you hear when you’re too young to understand them, it wasn’t until years later that I was able to see the musical virtues of it.
Check it out here.
