July 2009
1 post
Dan Kochersberger - “Black Betty”...
June 2009
9 posts
07/09 Subject #2: "Maybe I'll Come Down" by Soul...
I was afraid of this. Now before everybody starts accusing me of cheating and picking my own song, I used random.org’s random number generator (used by sweepstakes, lotteries, gambling websites, etc.) and I SWEAR I only clicked the button once, and this was the result. Anyway, I think this is a good choice for a few reasons. First of all, it’s a pretty “airy” song, so...
Blake Cooper - “Black Betty” [Subject...
“Please don’t listen to it with computer speakers. Headphones are the way...”
– Ben Morey (on his recent cover club submission)
Ben Morey - Black Betty [Subject #1]
Justin Pulver - Black Betty [Subject #1]
Some fun [internet] facts about Ram Jam
1. A google search for “ram jam fan page” yields no results. 2. A google search for ‘ram jam fan page’ (without quotes) only yields 50,000 pages, most of which are places where people are selling used copies of ram jam records. 3. Ram Jam’s most popular track on last.fm is “Black Betty,” with 2,269 plays in the last week. Their next most popular track is...
6/09 Subject #1: "Black Betty" by Ram Jam
For our first song, we are choosing Ram Jam’s epic 1977 hit single, “Black Betty.” Guitarist Bill Bartlett took Leadbelly’s “Black Betty,” composed new music for it, and recorded it independently. Record producers in New York took interest, hired a band to play with Bartlett, and produced a whole record of filler to release along with “Black Betty.”...
This is our new blog!
It’s a lot like the old blog. Except here we can post audio… which is kind of the whole point. So here we go!