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Evergreen rocksteady reading of Chip Taylor’s pop-country paean to illicit sex.

Jen rides the dread Sidewalk Doctor rhythm, with Woman Of The Ghetto lyrics.
Jackie Mittoo puts any survivors to the sword.

Infectiously spirited do-over of Horace Andy’s Higher Range. In three parts — vocal, toast, melodica dub.

Magnificent, super-soulful sufferers for the ages; full of yearning and hurt, and staying power.

This is the original, way-superior version of the song redone for Island. The dub was a Shaka special.
Recorded by Dennis Harris in 1975 at Gooseberry Studios, in London’s Chinatown.
Ijahman remembers his unscripted performance ‘pouring out from inside’. Maybe the short spell he’d just spent at Her Majesty’s Pleasure has to do with it.