Sunday, September 22, 2024

A Forgotten and Overlooked Album (Never Reissued)

ROY SUNDHOLM - THE CHINESE METHOD (1979)

 
After being a member of the Spencer Davis Group, Roy Sundholm played with "The Ratbites From Hell" (Huw Gower later joined The Records) & "Over The Hill". The band formed in 1972, broke up at the start of 1973 and reformed, with the line-up that recorded "Ratbite Fever" toward the end of 1973. The other members were: Peter Roe (lead guitar), John Perry went on to see considerable commercial success, with Peter Perrett, and The Only Ones. Alan Platt joined Wilko Johnson's Solid Senders in 1978 and played on the first of Roy Sundholm's solo albums "The Chinese Method", released by Ensign in 1979.
 
"The Chinese Method" has ten Roy Sundholm compositions and each of them bears the hallmark of a skilled and imaginative songwriter. The shadows of Dave Edmunds loom large, while the similarity to Graham Parker is so conspicuous in places it sounds like a tribute to the worthy. Guy Humphries (The Winkies) is playing guitar, while the Graham Parker's Rumour Brass and Rumour's keyboardist Bob Andrews are also guesting.
 
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you! So glad you are back!

Popcat said...

Excellent!

powerpoplovers said...

Great, great, great as always. I have the vinyl but it's good to have it in digital format. Thank you very much.

JD said...

This is awesome. Thanks so much.