Macka Fat

AMG Review of Macka Fat

Richie Unterberger
All Music Guide

There are a dozen nice sultry instrumentals on this LP, released in the early '70s, though as always with vintage eggae albums, that doesn't necessarily indicate that all of the material was recorded then. Certainly it has the sound of the best ocksteady music, some of its trancier grooves hinting at the dub era. Bubbly organ riffs are heard throughout, of the sort that, with some tweaks, would be popularized in the U.S. by Timmy Thomas' 1973 hit "Why Can't We Live Together."