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HORACE ANDY
FEEL GOOD ALL OVER - ANTHOLOGY 1970-1976
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1970-1976 - Trojan - studio
- discs:2
Horace "Sleepy" Hinds was born in Kingston in 1951. He started his career with Phil Pratt in 1966 with the debut single "Black Man's Country" and in 1969 (some say 1970) he went to the legendary Coxsone Dodd's Studio One to attend an audition. Dodd was impressed by Horace vocal falsetto sklls and decided to change his name to Horace Andy in honour of Bob Andy. Since he was young his big influence was Delroy Wilson and later helped and influenced by Leroy Sibbles and Earl Morgan of the Heptones, and Dennis Brown, Horace developed his unique style. In 1968-1969 Dodd was anticipating the Roots era and for an artist being there ment staying between the strong ones. Andy was there. His first hit came in 1969 with "Skylarking" (here in its 1976 version produced by Edward "Bunny" Lee). The best material cut for Dodd appeared in "Skylarking" (1969). By 1972 Andy had already proved that he was part of the history of the Jamaican music. In that same year he left Studio One to record again for Phil Pratt and later for a long series of producers: Derrick Harriott, Leonard "Santic" Chin, Augustus "Gussie" Clarke, Keith Hudson, Augustus Pablo, Errol Thompson and notably Bunny Lee. In 1977 Horace cut "In The Light", a classic set co-produced with Everton Da Silva; followed in 1978 by another strong set, the Tappa Zukie produced "Natty Dread A Weh She Want". I am not afraid to say that this compilation deserves five shining stars, but some sort of agreement between I&I asks for avoiding such judgement for the compilations. At the end we are here considering the original sets as "originals" and putting together some of the best tracks (fortysix, in this case!) is an easy trick. But in this case, well, what a trick! This is a five stars compilation made of excellent material. Last word.
yardie-reggae.com - 2007