In the early 1970’s, after the disbandment of the Flames, Jarrett recorded over a hundred songs under his own name and pseudonyms while working with such luminaries as Coxone Dodd, Joe Gibbs, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Tubby, and Duke Reid. He has recorded regularly since these heydays with his last release being 'Children of the Ghetto' for Jah Shaka in 2006, but now this...
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"What a bizarrely compiled album we have here, 19 tracks and for me makes this far too long and drawn out, which seems to be the norm these days, what ever happened to good old LP trad running length?A total of 19 tracks, which include three bonus cuts from the seventies and it has to be said from the straight off that the first two bonus cuts, "Fear Not" and its dub sound like they've been taped from an old 'piano key' style tape recorder that we all had in the mid seventies, awful sound quality... I ask why bother to include these on the album which is supposed to be 'brand new'? The third bonus cut "Shaving Cream" sounds better in sound quality but alas dubbed straight from a vinyl 7" it would seem.
The 16 other tracks that appear on Mr Jarretts 'new' album have been compiled in a strange no rhyme or reason manner and without any true care & attention to detail. Levels are all over the place for one ,but yes ,there are a few goodies on here for example track 2 "Bushwackers" and track 6 "Gethseneme" which uses a well known riddim from time, as does "Fools Says", with a faster tempo Abyssinians - Mandela and a cool "Children Get Ready" which uses the 'real rock' riddim in fine style.
On tracks "Dutty Friday" and "Montpellier Collie" again Jarrett can be found voicing over the top dubplate style using really rough sound mixes of studio 1 riddims, though the names of these escape me for now.
The album for me feels very 'homemade' and hastily put together and no one has bothered to even attempt to clean up those Studio1 tracks...((have they a license for this S1 stuff .....a bit bootleggy imo)). All in all very disappointing and it would appear more effort has been made on the album artwork and accompanying pdf sheet rather than the music presentation itself which should be the important thing here! There is just no continuity to it at all!
This would make a far better 'single' album trimmed down to 40 mins, minus the dodgy bonus cuts and studio 1 things and presented with a more 'brand new' passion than is being currently done.
5/10 as it stands could have been a 7/10 easy if they'd have took more care and attention to the compiling on it.
Review by Gibsy
“Bushwhackers Gangbangers” is self-released via his ‘BigMore Productions’ and at the moment is only available digitally.
Full tracklist
1.Story of My Life
2.Bushwhackers ...bassy and rootsy
3.Bushwhackers (version)
4.Lucy Underwood
5.Lucy Underwood (version)
6.Gethseneme – Vanity riddim
7.Gethseneme (version)
8.Dutty Friday
9.Dutty Friday (version)
10.Montpellier Collie
11.Fools Says
12.Solid Foundation
13.Work for Your Money
14.Babylon Red keyboard
15.Children Get Ready
16.Jah Man Paradise
Bonus
17.Fear Not
18.Fear Not dub
19.Shaving Cream
1 comment:
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