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01. HORACE ANDY - You Are My Angel
02. HORACE ANDY - My Guiding Star
03. HORACE ANDY - Just Say Who
04. HORACE ANDY - Money Money
05. HORACE ANDY - Skylarking
06. HORACE ANDY - Something on My Mind
07. HORACE ANDY - Riding for a Fall
08. HORACE ANDY - Zion Gate
09. HORACE ANDY - Natural Mystic
10. HORACE ANDY - Love of a Woman
11. HORACE ANDY - Don't Try to Use Me
12. HORACE ANDY - Man Next Door
13. HORACE ANDY - Better Collie
14. HORACE ANDY - No Man Is an Island
ARTIST
TITLE
Say Who
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KSLP 041LP KSLP 041LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2014

LP version. Horace Andy has always commanded a place high on the list of reggae singers from Jamaica. His distinctive, haunting vocal style stands strong on any rhythm, song, or style he chooses to cover. He has managed to crossover to a new generation of listeners due to his individual style, helped also by his collaborations with the likes of Massive Attack. Born Horace Hinds in 1951, Kingston Jamaica, he began his musical career at Coxsonne Dodd's Studio One. So impressed with the young Horace, Coxsonne decided on a name change and named him after his top songwriter at the time, Bob Andy. His first tune for Coxsonne ("Something on My Mind") was a slow burner in Jamaica, but his belief in his young protégé paid off later with "Skylarking," a tune that put the singer all over the radios and sound systems of Jamaica. After numerous singles and two albums worth of material, Horace moved on to work with many of the topflight Jamaican producers, among them Keith Hudson, Augustus Pablo, and Niney the Observer, but it was his work with producer Bunny Lee in the '70s that produced most of his hits, which we have compiled for this set. Some of his late '60s classics are recut in the popular 1970s style, working with the rhythm kings themselves, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. They have added some shine to "Something on My Mind" and "Skylarking" and made them hits all over again. Horace also adds his signature to covers of Delroy Wilson's version of the Tams's "Riding for a Fall," the Heptones' "My Guiding Star," John Holt's "Man Next Door," and Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine." A bass-heavy cut of Bob Marley's "Natural Mystic" is also present. This fine set of 1970s classics represents some of the best music ever made in Jamaica.