BARRY BROWN
Separation
THE ROOTS RADICS BAND
Scientist In Fine Style
Other releases by BARRY BROWN
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Details
Double CD
Tracklist
Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana1-1 –Linval Thompson I Love Marijuana
1-2 –Linval Thompson Dread Are The Controller
1-3 –Linval Thompson The Children Of The Ghetto
1-4 –Linval Thompson Don’t Push Your Brother
1-5 –Linval Thompson Begging For Apology
1-6 –Linval Thompson Not Follow Fashion
1-7 –Linval Thompson Roots Lady
1-8 –Linval Thompson Big Big Girl
1-9 –Linval Thompson Just Another Girl
1-10 –Linval Thompson Starlight
1-11 –Linval Thompson Jamaican Calley (Version)Big Joe – African Princess
1-12 –Big Joe African Princess
1-13 –Big Joe Solomon Agunda
1-14 –Big Joe Don’t Fuss And Fight
1-15 –Big Joe Smoke Marijuana
1-16 –Big Joe Merry Go Round
1-17 –Big Joe Tubby At The Controls
1-18 –Big Joe Judy
1-19 –Big Joe Big Disgrace
1-20 –Big Joe Love Can Conquer
1-21 –Big Joe Pauline Love The NattyTrinity 12″ Single
1-22 –Trinity (4) Follow My Heart (12″ Version)
1-23 –Trinity (4) Pope Paul Dead And Gone (12″ Version)Trinity – Rock In The Ghetto
2-1 –Trinity (4) Easy Does It
2-2 –Trinity (4) Life Is Not Easy
2-3 –Trinity (4) Tell It To Me Mother
2-4 –Trinity (4) Have A Little Faith
2-5 –Trinity (4) Dangerous Rockers And Ting
2-6 –Trinity (4) Don’t Lose Me
2-7 –Trinity (4) Every Trick In The Book
2-8 –Trinity (4) Rock In The Ghetto
2-9 –Trinity (4) Pope Paul Dead And Gone
2-10 –Trinity (4) Freedom Style
2-11 –Trinity (4) Follow My HeartBonus Tracks
2-12 –Barry Brown Mr C.I.D.
2-13 –Scientist & The Roots Radics King Tubby’s Rockers
2-14 –Pat Kelly There’s A Song
2-15 –The Roots Radics Lover’s Style
2-16 –Linval Thompson Here With Me
2-17 –The Roots Radics Come On Baby, Dub Style
2-18 –Linval Thompson Pop No Style
2-19 –Scientist & The Roots Radics Second Hand Girl
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Quintessential roots singer Barry Brown emerged from the amateur west Kingston talent contests of the early 1970s, along with Johnnie Clarke, the African Brothers and the Mighty Diamonds. He also impacted on sound systems like Tape Tone, together with other young dancehall-oriented singers such as Barrington Levy, Tristan Palmer, Sammy Dread and Rod Taylor. Singer-turned-producer Linval Thompson was one of Brown’s main vocal influences, and after Brown began recording prolifically for resident big man, Bunny Lee, who had already helped Thompson make the shift from singer to producer, it was only a matter of time before Thompson and Brown joined forces. ‘Separation,’ first issued in 1980, is one of the meanest and moodiest recordings that either ever served up, the rock-solid rhythm provided by the Roots Radics at Channel One being the perfect backing for Brown’s tortured wail about mankind’s waywardness; for some reason, the B-side is not a corresponding dub to Brown’s vocal, but is instead a sparse dub cut of ‘Willow Tree,’ which Linval voiced in the same era with another dancehall-oriented singer, Michael Black, here stripped down to its bare essentials by the young Scientist at King Tubby’s studio. All of which makes both sides absolutely essential listening.
David Katz ©
