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. Live from the Cotton Club
Search: Remember
by: Various
Release Date January 27, 2004
This twofer is part of the Island remasters of great tracks of crucial reggae performers (see also Burning Spear, Third World). Toots and his Maytals do not need any introduction and CD 1 is crammed full with their uptempo soulful ska and reggae hits ending with their Live recordings of 1980. The unissued track Desmond Dekker came first fits in well with the stormers and rare ballads (3, 21). With its pristine sound quality CD 1 stands as a near definite compilation of one the greatest reggae outfits in history. CD 2 (1981-88) has good tracks but pales in comparison with CD 1. A version of his seminal Bam bam is enjoyable and Toots' soul leanings are explored further (tracks 11 to 18), The Maytals are dropped halfway and replaced by a ... Read More:
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