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ARTiST....: milton henry
TiTLE.....: who do you think i am
LABEL.....: wackies/indigo
GENRE.....: reggae
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo (Lame 3.90.3 aps)
SiZE......: 45,4 MB
REL.DATE..: 02-04-2007
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01] who do you think i am 03:00
02] let the sunshine in 03:54
03] no dreams 04:40
04] send me that pillow 04:56
05] sweet melody 03:52
06] good old days 02:30
07] what am i to do 03:18
08] them a devil 02:49
09] you don't have to know me 03:00
TOTAL TiME : 31:59 min
Milton Henry's handful of classic sides - like his
version of Gypsy Woman, or Cornbread and Butter
(for Freedom Sounds), or This World and Follow
Fashion over the Upsetter's Fever rhythm (under
the artist name King Medious) - made him a natural
Wackies' recruit when he relocated from Jamaica to
New York City in the late seventies; and he was
soon fully involved in the day to day business of
the operation, supervising sales and promotion,
making deliveries, even holding spare keys to the
studio for whenever Bullwackies himself was away.
He appears in this activist role on the
front-sleeve photograph, just up White Plains Road
from the Bronx HQ: by its title, though, and first
and last songs, this album also hints heavily at
the past musical accomplishments of its mystery
hero.
The record was released first in London, in 1984,
during the first months of Wackies Dean Street
office, in north Soho. The band is basically
Itopia. Sly Dunbar gets a credit - though neither
he nor Robbie Shakespeare ever set foot in the
studio - as acknowledgement for his rhythm
recycled here as No Dreams. Jackie Mittoo and
Bagga are pon the corner, from Studio One; Jerry
Johnson and Neville Anderson on brass; also Sugar
and Max Romeo; and Sonia from the Love Joys
performs a duet.
No Dreams is the true story of Milton sleeping in
the attic above the studio when the rough drum and
bass track came on to the desk, waking him,
pulling him to the mic; Them A Devil is aimed at
certain producers passing off the singer's
property as their own; Good Old Days was written
for a poorly Junior Byles, remembering times
shared.
Buy me if you love me :)