Saturday, February 27, 2010

Good music from the Great Black North

I have plenty of albums of JAMAICAN IMMIGRANTS who continued to make music after moving to BRITAIN.
Yesterday, I purchased an album of former islanders who continued their music making after moving to CANADA.
"JAMAICA TO TORONTO: SOUL, FUNK & REGGAE 1967-1974" actually contains more R&B than reggae, but that 's no crime when the music is this good -- even if the artists are mostly new to me.
There's plenty of stuff discover.
For example, Eddie Spencer sounds like a Canadian version of Otis Redding.
The guitarist Wayne McGhie shows up on so many of these tracks that he must have been a leading light of Toronto's West Indies music scene.
The Montego Bay native wrote or performed many of the tunes on the this disc by LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS.
After listening to it about four times in 24 hours, I highly recommend it.

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