DESCRIPTION
Fully licensed ! Ltd to 500 copies. Singer and guitarist Ram John Holder was born in. 1939 in Georgetown, British Guiana, then moved to Cincinnati in 1954, and to the East Coast to work as folk blues singer in the early 1960s. In 1963, he took residency in England where he recorded several albums. Released in 1969 Black London Blues is surely is masterpiece. A socio-political manifesto the album chronicles the trials and tribulations that were the result of being a black-immigrant in London, and it contains all the pathos and pain one can imagine. Self-conscious, as concept albums often are, the record is almost like an audio A-Z or pub guide. It’s funky and represents his own black experience. It is a must have for all the blues revivalist out there, a record to rank along the lines of early Mike Cooper and american stalwarts like Eugene McDaniels or Sixto Rodriguez !
TRACKLIST
A1 Brixton Blues
A2 Pub Crawling Blues
A3 Too Much Blues
A4 Notting Hill Eviction Blues
A5 Black London Blues
B1 Ladbroke Grove Blues
B2 Sleeping Alone Tonight Blues
B3 Wimpy Bar Blues
B4 Piccadilly Circus Blues
B5 Hampstead To Lose The Blues