John_Clarke-Rootsy_Reggae-Visions_Of_John_Clarke_(1979_Wackies)-2006-RAC

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2006-05-16

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           John Clarke - Rootsy Reggae/Visions Of John Clarke


 Artist   : John Clarke
 Album    : Rootsy Reggae/Visions Of John Clarke
 Year     : 2006
 Genre    : Reggae
 Source   : CDDA
 Label    : wackies
 CatNr    : 2333/78
 URL      : n/a
 Date     : 17-05-2006
 Quality  : VBR
 Size     : 110,9 MB
 Time     : 76:28 min



  01  Big Leg Mary                                03:38
  02  Youre Just The One                          02:59
  03  John Brown                                  02:49
  04  Boss I                                      03:54
  05  Creator                                     03:13
  06  Recession                                   04:34
  07  Polution                                    02:48
  08  Wasnt It You                                05:10
  09  You Like To Borrow                          02:57
  10  Babylon Spanking                            03:19
  11  Abortion                                    02:41
  12  Bum Bang Festival                           03:14
  13  Good Collie Weed                            03:31
  14  You Like To Borrow                          04:29
  15  Your Just The One                           03:26
  16  Tell Me The Truth                           02:55
  17  We Need Some Solution                       03:23
  18  Wasnt It You                                03:57
  19  Babylon Spanking                            03:20
  20  John Brown                                  03:08
  21  Shack Up With You                           03:24
  22  Come Back Darling                           03:39



  Visions Of John Clarke was a little thrown together for its original
  release in 1979. Still, its sleeve carried a ringing endorsement from
  Bullwackies himself - President of the John Clarke Fan Club - and the
  album attracted the interest of no less than Studio 1 boss Coxsone Dodd,
  whose bid for distribution-rights was thwarted when the Brooklyn label
  Makossa quickly put in for a full licence. Out soon afterwards, the new
  version - entitled Rootsy Reggae - duplicated five tracks, but with
  markedly different mixes, fresh edits, and sometimes new
  instrumentation. This CD presents both albums complete with the original
  track order.

  The singer - not to be confused with Johnny Clark - had been running
  with the Wackies operation for the past six years, ever since moving
  from Jamaica to New York. HeÆd cut memorable sevens with co-founder
  Munchie Jackson for the Tafari label - like In Search of The Human Race
  and Recession - and with Lloyd Barnes for such Bullwackies imprints as
  Versatile and Wackies. Several are collected by these two albums, with
  another layer of modification: for example, on WasnÆt It You Lloyd
  Barnes and Prince Douglas give a new treatment - and adding guitar - to
  the Jumbo Caribbean Disco twelve; on Pollution they remove the horns
  from the Wackies seven (though generally Baba Leslie is in full effect
  here).

  The tracklisting rounds out with a Johnny Osbourne cover; several New
  Breed jams, featuring the likes of Jah Scotty, Clive Hunt, Harold
  Sylvester, Jah Hitler, Jerry Johnson, the Love Joys, even Mickey Mouse
  apparently; and on a handful of done-over rhythms Clarke takes the mic
  from brethren like Joe Auxumite, K.C. White and Wayne Jarrett.

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