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| 1 Africa Is The Black Man's Home |  |
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| 2 All Things Bright | |
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| 3 A House Is Not A Home |  |
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| 4 Africa Dub | |
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| 5 All I Need Is Your Love | |
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Saturday not quite under covers
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William DeVaughn's 1974 smash hit "Be Thankful for What You Got" had a smooth, sinuous beat that made it an ideal choice to be covered by numerous Jamaican artists. And so it came to pass that Lee Perry cut Bunny Clarke (later to become better known as Bunny Rugs of Third World) on the tune, Clive Chin recorded it with Donovan Carless, and Coxsone Dodd released an instrumental cut - Jackie Mitt...
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Funky Friday with Sugar Minott (really)
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Album:More Sugar
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Track:Ghetto Funk
at Studio One in 1979 on a horns-driven Brentford Rockers funk workout
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While he has released numerous self-produced albums through his own Black Roots and Youth Promotion stable, I still think that he has never bettered the tunes he cut between 1978 and 1982 for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One; his "Live Loving" LP broke new ground by merging new songs with the classic original rhythms of the Sound Dimension and others, and effectively prefigured much of dancehall music...
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In 1978, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd was a mightily unhappy record producer
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Album:Live Loving
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For the past two years, virtually every big hit riddim in the dancehalls of Jamaica, London and New York had been stolen from a tune originally released on either his Studio One label or Duke Reid's Treasure Isle; Channel One and Joe Gibbs were the worst opffenders, but most producers were sacking his vaults.Early attempts to have his band play in the "rockers" style failed to impress, and rele...
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