Ringos drumming appears on

Ringo given credit for drumming

Wow, thats great news John, thanks for posting it. Guess I'll be pickin it up when I go to get Brainwashed.

It's nice that it's being released on CD with extra tracks, but Ringo's presence on this album is very _old_ news. Ringo's credited on the original LP as 'Richie' on the track 'I Ain't Superstitious.' Mentioned also in Castleman & Podrazik's 1975 _All Together Now_.

I never got around to buying it when it was out. The only London Sessions I bought was the Chuck Berry one, it had My Ding A Ling on it. I do have B.B. King in London, no psuedonym for Ringo on that one, but his face is masked out by a star(r) inside the gatefold pics. Was that album ever out on cd?

Got me there. Will have to check the outlets.

Yes... I heard that Ringo got pissed about half way thru the session and threw in the towel. Seems he grew tired of the Woff's cantankerous mannerism and his constant tendency to treat all the 60's rockers like children.

Compared to him, they were. He was older and they were on his turf. None of the sixties rockers he played with were anywhere close to on his level when it came to Blues. If Ringo couldn't handle a bit of attitude for a chance to work with one of the two greatest bluesmen alive at the time (and in the top five for greatest ever) then he was the one with the problem.

Maybe the food was too spicy.

You're right there, but in the context Ringo was something of a nobody. His field was pop/rock and he was an unknown quantity as far as blues drumming went. It was up to him to earn respect, to prove that he had the chops and wasn't just a dilletante rock star coasting on his name.

On the other hand, Howlin' Wolf wasn't always the easiest person to get along with.

On the same track as Ringo on this album ('I Ain't Superstitious' are Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Hubert Sumlin, and Klaus Voorman (as well as 3 horn players Joe Miller, Jordon Sandke, and Dennis Lansing).

In the context of a Howlin' Wolf recording, did Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Steve Winwood, and Klaus Voorman belong there, either? This was an attempt to help popularize a blues legend by incorporating 'name' players.