Coming fairly hot on the heels of two more expansive Perry compilations (1, 2), I'm not sure what more I can say in connection with this one. Everything on this record is on the others with the single exception of the Prince Jazzbo track.
It's the first album of his I got. Again it concentrates exclusively on the most celebrated period of Lee Scratch Perry's time in the Black Ark studio from 1976 and '77. However, I first came across him not through this work but through his late '80s collaborations with Adrian Sherwood, which John Peel played on radio.
I think I was a bit disappointed when I first got this. By its nature it is the tip of the iceberg of Perry's work, and what I was really after was the deeper, murkier, dubbier versions of these hits that wouldn't fit on a 'best of' LP, but which I ultimately found on the longer compilations.
I though this was the end of my collection of Lee Scratch Perry compilations, but when I went to dig it out I found there's still one more to come…
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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