is yet another Jamaican performer little known, despite forty years playing and recording, beyond the reggae cognoscenti. First coming to note as part of The Sensations (although not with them when they hit with "Those Guys" for Duke Reid), with whom he cut the "Come Back darling" LP for Winston Riley's Techniques label released in 1970, he emigrated soon afterwards to Canada.

Wikipedia will tell you that he was absent for a decade, although the release of "Niah Man" and two different cuts of "Purify Your Heart" for Riley in 1973 interrupts this silent period. However, there's no doubt that he was silent for many years before blasting back in 1979 with the utterly visionary proto-dancehall LP "Truths and Rights" in 1979 for Studio One, updating classic rhythms with new songs performed in a drawling, word-slinging style that has since become familiar. A series of massive successes followed in the 1980s: "Ice Cream Love" for Junjo Lawes, "Strugle Ha Fi gwan" for Gussie Clarke"Water Pumping", "Fally Ranking", "Jahoviah" and of course "Budy Bye Bye" for King Jammys, "Rougher Than Them" for Bobby Digital, up to "One Jamaican" for Don One.

His best work was, as so often, for Coxsone Dodd - a remake of "Come Back Darling", "Lend Me the Sixteen" "Water More Than Flour", "Murderer", "How Can I Be Sure" (with Devon Russell), and this 45, released at the start of his comeback, and now available on the sixteen track Heartbeat reissue of "Truths and Rights". this is "Jealousy, Heartaches and Pain", and is one of the few tracks he cut on a wholly new rhythm at Studio One.

The dub cut by the Brentford Disco Set is not on the reissue, but is itself a bit special -