Artist.......: Clinton Fearon
Album........: Live au Cabaret Sauvage (Heart and Soul Tour)
Label........: Wagram
Genre........: Reggae
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2013-06-08
Str.date.....: 2012-10-31
Quality......: 208kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.clintonfearon.com/
track title time
1. Live au Cabaret Sauvage (Heart and Soul Tour) 61:02
* One Love
* Let Jah Be Praised
* Stop Before You Go
* Marvel Not
* On The Other Side
* Follow The Rainbow
* Chatty Chatty Mouth
* I'm Not Crying
* Untrue Girl
* What A World
* Richman Poorman
Runtime 61:02
Size 91.19
Release Notes:
Like many reggae musicians who came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s,
Clinton Fearon was a country boy who migrated to Kingston as a teenager in order
to seek his musical fortune among the proliferating studios and sound systems of
the big city. He was born in St. Andrew in 1951 and moved around the countryside
with his father and stepmother before relocating to Kingston in 1967; he
immediately organized a singing group with some friends, but it never amounted
to anything and broke up before it could record. It was around 1970, when he
joined Albert Griffiths and Errol Grandison to form the Gladiators, that he hit
his stride as a musician and began what would be the most significant and
commercially successful association of his career.
Grandison quit the group fairly early in its career and was replaced by
Gallimore Sutherland and with this lineup, the Gladiators became mainstays at
the famous Studio One, where they recorded highly religious songs of their own
as well as backing up such top-ranked artists as Stranger Cole and Burning
Spear. Around 1974, the group began working with the infamous Lee "Scratch"
Perry at his Black Ark studio, where again they recorded on their own as well as
backing up other artists, notably the enigmatic singer Vivian "Yabby U" Jackson.
Fearon, who by this time was an accomplished bass player as well as a gifted
singer and songwriter, was put to especially heavy use in the studio, recording
numerous basslines for other artists and rarely getting any credit, or even
regular payment for his services. His bass is the one heard on Perry's strange
and wonderful "Roast Fish and Cornbread," as well as many other Black Ark
recordings for which the session notes are long gone.
In the late '80s he emigrated to the United States, settling in Seattle, where
he organized the relatively short-lived Defenders band. The group recorded one
EP before breaking up. In 1993, he formed his current ensemble, the Boogie Brown
Band, which has recorded four albums: Disturb the Devil, Mystic Whisper, What a
System, and Soon Come.