
Like Bullwackies, his collaborator here, Keith Hudson was a one-off innovator with impeccably classical lineage: his first studio recording involved former Skatalites; his earliest releases provided solid-gold hits for Ken Boothe, John Holt, Delroy Wilson, U-Roy and the rest. Also like Bullwackies, his splitting from this tradition is dynamic and all his own: Hudson’s mature music finds its conditions away from JA, in London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, with his dark experimentalism increasingly better suited to the the LP than the cardinal seven-inch reggae format.