Old Ramon is now back in print on vinyl! 2xLP in Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeves including mp3 coupon. Old Ramon, the sixth Red House Painters album, recorded in the fall of 1997 through the spring of 1998, was intended for release that summer. But the mega-major label merger catastrophe that left hundreds of bands homeless spared few. Red House Painters looked for a brief moment like survivors, but subsequent delays eventually turned into permanent layoff. Old Ramon sat in limbo and grew into legend as another great, lost album only the privileged few would ever properly hear. They've unintentionally put the wait back into the term "long-awaited." Singer Mark Kozelek was kept busy at the time with a series of other projects. He served as producer for Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver, as archivist for the 4AD Red House Painters Retrospective album, assembling rarities and live tracks and as a solo artist with several tracks on the Shanti Project album, He released two solo albums Rock 'n' Roll Singer and What's Next to the Moon, a collection of AC/DC songs reinterpreted. As live performer, touring the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden and his first ever shows in South Korea. As a film scorer for the independent film Last Ball. And, finally, as actor in Cameron Crowe's critically acclaimed Almost Famous. But the ten songs packed onto Old Ramon (the title comes from a Spanish children's book that caught Kozelek's fancy) well represented the band. Once freed from their major label commitments, reputable independent labels bid for the band's services. This, however, is the album exactly as it was intended. 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. WOP-A-DIN-DIN 02. BYRD JOEL 03. VOID 04. BETWEEN DAYS 05. CRUISER 06. MICHIGAN 07. RIVER 08. SMOKEY 09. GOLDEN 10. KAVITA