‘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.
