Gregory Isaacs – Slum in Dub

Description

Coupled with the succinct Revolutionaries band and Isaacs’ quality songwriting, these deconstructed cuts, weave and flow like any good quality dub album should, with some of the track names giving more than a hint of the original song title, such as ‘Public Eyes’, which was one of the major hits off ‘The Cool Ruler’ as ‘John Public’. The dense ‘Slum’ originated as ‘Party in the Slum’, while the brighter ‘Reform Institution’ began life as ‘Uncle Joe’. ‘Word of the Farmer’ becomes ‘Croft’ and ‘Tam Tam’ began life as ‘One More Time’.