Various - Black Solidarity Presents String Up the Sound System LP xx2002 Butch Warren on bass

Butch Warren on bass

and it felt like it had been strangely prescient to write about being alone” Smith speaks about the birth of this record

Jenkins siphons these ideas into the ambient folk of her new album

The outcome was (and remains) critical acclaim

Various - Black Solidarity Presents String Up the Sound System LP xx2002 Butch Warren on bassIn the beginning of the '80s, reggae music became increasingly in tune with what was happening in Kingston's dancehalls probably more so than at any time since the sound system operators had started to make their own shuffle and boogie in the late '50s. The international audience and the critics were too busy looking for a new Bob Marley to appreciate what was happening downtown and failed to acknowledge that this was a return to the real, raw roots