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Vocals are in the French, English Dioula and Creole Patois languages. Backing bands are The Wailers (on "Cocody Rock" & others) & Alpha's Light.
Alpha Blondy's 1983 first album, a smash hit featuring an all-local band the Natty Rebels, had all the accessibility and directness that made him an international star. Two cuts are agreeable reggae in English; the rest is Afro-reggae and a lot more interesting for that. In some ways Blondy's music is typical of the Ivory Coast: light, accomplished, and geared to a regional rather than local audience. Though the notes don't tell you so, Cocody Rock is a re-release of Blondy's 1984 second album, recorded in Paris and Kingston with a mix of African and Jamaican musicians (plus Kassav's Jocelyne Beroard on backup vocals). Pre-superstar Blondy, it has the freshness you'd expect from somebody pretty much just starting out. He sure believes in touching all the bases. Besides its so-so title song, Cocody Rock has something for both Muslims and Christians as well as a hilarious cut claiming Ivory Coast's ultra-conservative president as a Rasta. ~ John Storm Roberts
Personnel: Alpha Blondy (vocals); Christian Polloni, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Afri Lue Eugene (guitar); Errol Brown , Francis Personne (recorder); Glen DaCosta, Egbert Evans (saxophone, horns); David Madden, Patrick Tenyue (trumpet); Henry Tenyue (trombone); Earl Lindo, George Kwaku (keyboards); Robert Lyn (synthesizer); Michel Abishira, Michel Abihssira, Carlton "Carlie" Barrett (drums); Harry T. Powell (percussion); Jocelyne Beroard, Paula Moore, Eugenie Kuffler, Veronique Kone, Annette Lowman (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell; Herve Le Coz.
Recording information: Studio Felicite, Paris, France; Tuff Gong Recording Studio, Kingston, Jamaica.
Photographer: Hélène Lee.
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While it might be sacrilege in reggae circles to say that any artist could challenge Bob Marley's mastery of ...
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Alpha Blondy's position in the history of reggae music is a direct reflection of his physical distance from the island of Jamaica. Born in the Ivory Coast, ...
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| | Sublime Everything Under The Sun CDs (2006) With DVD; Box Set
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Sublime's musical bouillabaisse drew on punk, folk, hip-hop, and reggae to make a soundtrack for a party attended by skaters, rastas, hippies, fratboys, and gangstas alike. It's no surprise, then, that a posthumous Sublime rarities box would result in perhaps the band's most eclectic offering yet. Composed of three CDs and a DVD of live performances and interviews, the collection follows Sublime from its origins as a band heavily influenced by the roots reggae of Bob Marley, the spiritual dub-punk of Bad Brains (a slew of covers of both artists attest to Sublime's fandom), and the righteous singalong fury of the Clash into a polished, commercially successful pop band with an infectious party-hearty vibe. The various outtakes, acoustic demos, live jams, and remixes (one ...
| | Young Rascals CD (1966)
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The first album by New Jersey's esteemed Young Rascals is in many ways a standard mid '60s debut: pretty much all covers, from the Beau Brummels' "Just a Little" to Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour," leavened by two hit singles, "I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Anymore" and the immortal blue-eyed soul rave-up "Good Lovin'," one of the classic pop songs of the decade.
The difference here is that the Young Rascals--singer Eddie Brigati, keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, guitarist Gene Cornish and jazz drummer Dino Danelli--play these songs with the enthusiasm of a young band at the local roadhouse, making even the most cliched of the covers ("Mustang Sally") sound like brand-new band originals. Hell, they even pull off a smokin' version of "Like a Rolling Stone"! Wisely, Rhino chose to reissue this album in mono instead of using the more common but sub-par fake-stereo mix.
The history of '60s rock is littered with stories of great rock classics -- the Savages' album, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' first two albums, the first two Chocolate Watch Band albums -- that should have been better known than they were. The Young Rascals is that rare example of a genuinely great album that got heard and played, and sold and sold, and sold some more (and that goes double for the New York City area, whence they came). Apart from the presence of a hit ("Good Lovin'") to drive sales, every kid (and his girlfriend) in any aspiring white rock band on the East Coast in 1966 seemingly owned a copy; it seemed like neighborhood and regional pride also helped to drive a few sales -- here was an LP by a group with a hit, on a major label that people had actually heard of, that hailed from where we all lived. Actually, the music's merits were probably enough on their own to justify the popularity of the record -- the Rascals' debut couples a raw garage band sound with compelling white soul more successfully than just about any record since the Beatles' Please Please Me. The band had three powerful singers in Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati, and Gene Cornish, and an attack honed in hundreds of hours of playing dance clubs on Long Island and New York City. The result is a record without a weak moment or a false note anywhere in its 35 minutes: "Do You Feel It" shows them crossing swords ...
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