Keith Hudson

Playing It Cool And Playing It Right

Week-End

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.

• Playing It Cool
• Playing It Right Dub
• Trust And Believe
• In I Dub
• California
• By Night Dub
• Not Good For Us
• Formula Dub
• Be What You Want To Be
• Be Good Dub
• I Can't Do Without You
• Still Need You Dub