POX: Lee Scratch Perry

(for the purposes for a broken-link future, that's Nice and Easy by Susan Cadogan, produced by Scratch)

That Susan Cadogan track is fire. And then youtube algorithm gave me the whole album and it's fantastic, never heard it

(I love it. Minor trivia point: two off the tracks on the LP are covers of songs from the classic Doris Duke LP "I'm a Loser", it seems lock and odd but inspired choice to find songs so suited to SC's rather ethereal vocal style on a full-throated gospelly southern soul vocal record)

Are there different versions of the album? I thought Island just changed the title and cover because they were worried about appearing racist?

Check out these tribute mixes! Over six hours of goodness, mostly focusing on Scratch's more obscure output

http://mikusmusik.blogspot.com/2015/08/rainford-rules-strictly-lee-perry.html

In the blurb it says 'In fact, considering the esteem in which he is now held he supposedly had relatively few big hits in JA, and to some extent it was UK audiences that really clicked with his sound and helped cement his legacy.' Is that correct?

Very cool find. Anyone else have an issue downloading Volume 1? It cuts off after a minute.

And yeah, from the little I've read, that does seem to be a fact about UK audiences, but that was true for a lot of Jamaican artists at that time, none more so than Bob Marley. See also: Mikey Dread

delighted to see The Battle for Armageddon reissued as i could never find a decent recording or streaming version of it (for a long time only had it on cassette taped by a friend at school). not a remaster afaict but it sounds good.

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/lee-scratch-perry-battle-of-armagideon-2cd-expanded-edition/

The I Am A Madman dub is quite a thing iirc, I also recall lots of mediocrity on that LP though. “Grooving” is probably my favourite.