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Doctor Bird Records present two reggae reissues incoming in February! Featuring the classic Ken Parker collection ‘Here Comes Ken Parker’, as well as 2CDs of the very best of producer Joe Gibbs’ ’71-’72 output – ‘Joe Gibbs Presents Freedom To The People’. Find out more…
Ken Parker: Here Comes Ken Parker
Originally released in Jamaica 1974, ‘Here Comes Ken Parker’ provided the first secular showcase for one of Jamaican music’s finest and most popular performers, Ken Parker.
Over the preceding six years, the singer had become firmly established as one of the island’s most gifted singers, his elegant tenor gracing a series of popular 7” singles, primarily recorded at Duke Reid’s famed Treasure Isle studio.
Now, the popular 1974 collection – also released by Trojan Records in the UK as ‘Jimmy Brown’ – is finally available once more after almost half a century, with its track-listing expanded to include the remainder of the vocalist’s released work for Treasure Isle, along with those of his equally accomplished labelmate, Hopeton Lewis.
Joe Gibbs Presents Freedom To The People, 2CD
At the start of the 1970s a select group of up-and-coming record company bosses who had first made their mark during the late ‘60s were seriously challenging the supremacy of Jamaica’s established musical elite. This soon-to-be reggae royalty included such influential figures as Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Harry Johnson, Bunny Lee, Winston Riley and the man whose output provides the focus for this 2CD set, Joe Gibbs.
Having already enjoyed numerous rock steady and boss reggae hits, Gibbs expanded an already impressive roster of artists to include some of the island’s most popular acts, notably The Heptones, Judy Mowatt and Dennis Alcapone.
‘Freedom To The People’ includes the very best of the producer’s output from 1971 to 1972, a period during which he further cemented his reputation as one of the most creative and successful forces on the Jamaican music scene.
Packed with an array of reggae hits alongside an equally impressive number of long-lost gems that have remained unavailable on any format for half a century, the collection is an essential addition to the collections of all self-respecting fans of vintage Jamaican sounds.
