4/20/08

King Jammy presents Barry Brown

This is a great album with a nice compact track list. It's only 9 songs long. The first five tracks are all extended dub mixes and the other four songs alternate between vocal and dub tracks. My favorites on this one are #1 (Best Things in Life) , #3 (School Days), and #8 & #9 (Don't Let No One Fool You & DUB) but really the entire disc is solid. This is some Heavy-Heavy roots and the extended dub mixes are long, enduring, rolling rhythms that offer outstanding horn and keyboard. King Jammy does the mixing and production on this one with his usual tight and clean sound. It's off of the Black Arrow label, originally released in 1980. Black Arrow also has some great Hugh Mundell material released in 19890 called Jah Fire. Barry Brown has a good amount of work out there but this is a good place to start. Other popular discs are : Far East, Midnight Rock at Channel One, and Step it Up Youthman.

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