Sugar Belly Combo - Linstead Market
Artist : Sugar Belly Combo
Album : Linstead Market
Year : 1971
Genre : Reggae
Source : CDDA
Label : Port-O-Jam
CatNr : L/P 107
URL : n/a
Date : 20-07-2011
Quality : VBR
Size : 55,7 MB
Time : 34:17 min
01 linstead market 02:24
02 wings of a dove 03:16
03 riven ben come down 02:15
04 land of sea and sun 03:21
05 soldering 02:00
06 jamaica farewell 02:55
07 archie 02:31
08 rucumbine 02:18
09 john tom 04:11
10 yellow bird 04:17
11 my pussin 02:46
12 slide mongoose 02:03
greetings, a must for all collectors :)
[...]Sugar Belly (William Walker) was an anachronism. This player and
maker of bamboo saxophones recorded music featuring this instrument
spanning the 1970s into the beginning of the 1990s. This is despite the
fact that by the end of the 1960s, the bamboo sax had vanished from
mento recordings. Recording mento bands of the 1970s and beyond opted
instead for professional woodwinds, or, more frequently, no woodwinds at
all. [...]
[...] Sugar Belly recorded a series of LPs in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Linstead Market" by The Sugar Belly Combo is the best of these, and the
only one that can be called mento. The jacket is bordered by the text,
"Authentic Mento & Calypso" and features an illustration of rural mento
instruments. It is mento (with a touch of calypso and Latin), though the
instrumentation is somewhat less rural than the jacket would lead you to
believe. The instrumentation consists of trap drums, electric guitar,
bass, flute, vocals (on some tracks), and, of course, Sugar's bamboo
sax. (The mento line up with banjo and rumba box that Sugar describes in
the article above does not appear to have recorded.) One instrumental
track sounds reminiscent of Chin's Calypso Sextet, one track has a
reggae rhythm and other tracks featuring a calypso rhythm played on the
electric guitar. The track "Soldering" is actually the LP's second
rendition of "Rucumbine". Sugar is not heard on this track.[..]
enjoy :)