Track Listing

1. Vanity
2. Please Be True
3. Hang on Natty
4. Never Give Up
5. Jahovia
6. Give A Hand
7. Try Love
8. Roof Over My Head
9. Jah Jah Lead Us
10. Is It True
11. Love Gonna Pack Up
12. Give Me Jah Jah
13. Jah Jah Children
14. Party Time
15. Change Your Ways
16. Come On Home
17. Jah Almighty

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202292 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Laid back dub disco experience
With the creation of the twelve inch single -took up with eternal gratitude by DJ,s as it meant longer breaks between tracks - came the opportunity for other musical genres to experiment and expand their repertoire .Longer tracks means more time to stretch the music with extensive instrumental breaks, comprehensive breakdowns and plenty of opportunity to just muck about with the music .
Reggae producers and artists quickly sussed out that this was a prospect too good to miss and a chance to reinvigorate the form so the disco-mix phenomenon was born With reggae this meant essentially expanding the vocals or showcasing the dub element of the music, the two different attributes previously having to share different sides of a seven inch single release.
This album gives the listener 14 excellent facets of how The Studio One label -arguably the most consistently superb label in the world utilised this fresh option. Featuring Reggae staples like Sugar Minot, Jackie Mittoo and Willie Williams with lesser known artists like George Dudley and Norma White( Who does an excellent cover of Chic's "I Want Your Love) this is a laid back collection where the customary reggae vibes are supplemented by popcorn keyboards, spongy synthesizers and swishing syn drums. Pre-eminent of all is Winston Francis "Going To Zion" , a real case of leaving the best till last with a real swagger in its arrangement. This brings me to my one criticism of this collection .It's slightly mono-paced and lacking spatial variety .It could do with an injection of ska or vibrant rock-steady just to break things up a little.
That would be against the grain for Studio One collections though .They tend to pick a reggae sub-genre and stick rigidly to it or if not a sub-genre a form of music -laid back or up-beat. With the more effervescent music this is fine but the more relaxed material can become tiresome over a full album , especially one with fourteen extended tracks on it. Minor gripe that really though , because as usual this is superb value with much tremendous music languidly sashaying down those grooves.