An intrepid, winning survey of Wackies’ precious first forays in Digi. Old boys Horace Andy and Milton Henry deal the aces. Step forward, Chris Wayne.
With three previously-unreleased sides.
Silk-screened sleeve.

Bunny Lee productions from 1977. Tough backing tracks, like Ronnie Davis’ Hard Times, Johnny Clarke’s revivals of Cry Tough and Waiting In Vain, and Cornell Campbell’s War; and steadfast rhythms like The Silvertones’ Smile, a horny Get Ready, and Melody Life.

DKR NYC on the heart; ORTHODOX BURY THE DEVIL on the back.
Gildan shirts.

A fine trombone instrumental — fruity, old-school, wistful — backed with a lovely detournement of Rosemary Clooney’s massive country smash, Beautiful Brown Eyes. Lloyd Charmers business.

Two terrific, previously unreleased excursions on the Amos Milburn.
The trombone holds it down like Giant Haystacks, but that’s a tenor saxophone solo.
Lovely stuff.

Take a pew, rude boys and girls, lest you faint. Don D’s legendary offering to the mental asylum where he died. Rampant and intense; burning up, inside and outside.

Peerless cover of the soul classic — recorded at Randy’s in 1974 with Fully Fullwood, Chinna Smith, Tony Chin, Santa Davis… and Errol T at the controls.
It’s no surprise that Carless is a soul boy, into Jerry Butler and The Dells back then; one half of the Little Roys, when they cut Bongo Nyah for Lloyd Daley.
Crucial bunny.

Irresistible reggaeficatory bazookaings of Manu Dibango’s Soul Makossa, upping the old-school funk, and garbling extra mamas.