Belfast Gypsies

A tough U.K. R&B band with an attack that recalled the harder garage rock sounds of the day, the story of the Belfast Gypsies is one of the most unusual in the British Beat era. An offshoot of the Irish blues stalwarts Them, the Belfast Gypsies never publicly performed under that name, and had drifted apart by the time their sole album was issued only in Sweden in 1967. Despite that, the group's only LP, confusingly titled Them, became a cult favorite among fans of blues-wailing '60s sounds and earned a small but loyal following long before the group's complicated history beca...