Exodus ..... Funky Friday Under Cover?
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....I think the Sage Of Ivyland once opined on these very pages...(to paraphrase)...Well, never mind...i can't even properly paraphrase it...but the gist of it was that almost any tune sounds good...reggae-fied. Or something like that.....Anyway. I'm waiting for Baudolino to supply some information on Mr Ranglin. I know, i could go snooping around the internet but i find Mr B's information more thorough. & more fun to read......& i have faith that what I'm readin is factual & springs from his wealth of knowledge (& the wealth of resources he has.....collected over the centuries he's been alive.)
I hear a launch pad for Bob Marley's Exodus here.
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I don't have it in my library here or I'd post it...but those of you who have access to the MOG player should check out a track called "Anna" by Mr Ranglin. I was hoping it was Arthur Alexander's Anna...but what a great surprise. This guy can play!
You're right about this version of "Exodus" being improved by reggaefication. It keeps the melody's beauty but sheds it of its pompousness. As for "Anna," here it is.
It's great, but quite different from the "Exodus." Maybe too different, I thought at first, fearing that MOG and allmusic.com had accidentally misplaced somebody else's West African kora recording into his album, but further scrutiny convinced me that Ranglin is darn versatile!
Not a Marley cover..I don't think, but one from the film soundtrack. But I'll let Mr. B give us the details.
Mr. Ranglin's "Below the Bassline" album is a stunner. Lots of jazz flavor in his work. Anna is on "In Search Of The Lost Riddim", Mr. R.'s colab with African musicians.
Cissé Diamba Kanouté Vocals
Baaba Maal Guitar, Vocals
Dion Parson Drums
Ernest Ranglin Guitar, Producer
Bada Seck Drums
Mansour Seck Guitar, Vocals
Anna-Ernest Ranglin
Maybe this one is a cover..
Blowin' in The Wind - Ernest Ranglin
@ Spike...the more i hear of this genre hopping genius...the more in awe i am.
Thanks Cody......I've got a new Fave!
Cool..He's one of those studio cats that played on zillions of records from the 50's forward..but his solo records of fairly recent vintage are great, starting w/1996's Below The Bassline which is my fave by a mile.
My upload of "Anna" was from the MOG player, but now I realize that it's dirrerent from allmusic"s and Cody's upload, and since that makes it two against one, sorry MOG, you're wrong.
This is gettng confusing..
This track was a cover of the 1961 Ferranté and Teicher movie theme, released as a single on one of Coxsone Dodd's many imprints in 1964 or so, credited to sax player Tommy McCook, although the guitar solo is classic Ernest Ranglin. As stated above, he was incredibly versatile. Two of the first eight LPs released by Island records were by Ernest, and they themselves featured covers of mento standards like "Linstead Market", jazz tunes like "All the Things You Are", and self-penned cuts like "Try It Nuh". his "In Search of the Lost Rhythm" African album is great, as Cody B states.
Here, though, is a very rare dub mix of "Exodus", from the 1976 Studio 1 set "Bionic Dub"
For completeness, I can also advise that "Anna" as posted by Spike is the correct track; the pseudo-"Anna" posted by Cody is in fact "Minuit" off the same album.
Wasn't there an early private eye sitcom that used this?
And, since the last track I played didn't actually feature Ernest Ranglin, here is his take on the Eternals glorious Studio 1 rocksteady tune "Stars", originally sung by Cornel Campbell; "More Stars"
Oh my god..my tracklist titles are right but the tunes are all mixed up..I ripped it direct from a CD too..This is gonna confound me. How annoying is that..I must've had an advance copy or something with a bogus track list. Thanks mr. b.
iTunes once thanked me for notifying them that they had accidentally randomly shuffled the titles to the actual tracks of a Mike Seeger album.
when the music is mostly instrumental you are at the mercy of the taggers.
Musicians usually don't get to choose which thirty-second snippets of their tracks get offered online. It shows.