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Format Details:
Release Date: 26 April 2019
Label: Burning Sounds
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5036436119721
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Label: Burning Sounds
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5036436156023
Description
Heptones Swing Low is released for the first time on CD with bonus track.
Musicians:
Vocals - The Heptones: Barry Llewellyn, Earl Morgan, Naggo Morris.
Drums: Michael 'Mikey Boo' Richards, Sly Dunbar.
Bass: Dr. Paul Hamilton, Robbie Shakespear, Lloyd Parks.
Rhythm: Lennie B, Chinna.
Lead Guitar: Chinna.
Keyboards: Bobby Calphat, Winston Wright.
Percussion: Minimum Wage.
Horns: Tony Green, Barry Bailey.
Rhythms recorded at Tuff Gong Studios, Jamaica. Voiced and mixed at Harry J Studios, Jamaica. Engineers: David Hamilton, Barry Murray. Produced by Earl Morgan of The Heptones. Album first released 1985.
Description
Swing Low, originally released in 1985, is charming, confident and subtly innovative from start to finish.
Now available in Red vinyl with extensive sleeve notes.
Legendary... genius... groundbreaking... seminal... and other similarly hyperbolic adjectives have been used in promoting artists time and time again... often to describe the most mediocre talents. However, one group fully deserves all of these plaudits and many more besides as The Heptones are undoubtedly one of the most accomplished, significant and influential Jamaican vocal harmony trios. Amongst genuine lovers of Jamaican music their standing is beyond compare but, outside of the confines of reggae music, it is still nowhere near as assured. And, even with the benefit of hindsight, it is difficult to understand how and why, despite Island Records giving them a very similar promotional platform in the mid seventies, The Heptones never followed Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots & The Maytals and Burning Spear into the realms of international recognition.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Prince Lincoln Thompson
Phil Pratt
Aggravators & Revolutionaries
Page One
Omar Perry
Omar Perry
Viceroys
Desmond Dekker
The Heptones
Various Artists
The Heptones
