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Features Disc of the day
The Jolly Boys
Great Expectation
(GeeJam, 2010)
Rural Jamaican folk music in up-to-date duds shows the roots of ska and reggae.
We couldn't fit this record into last month's MOJO Filter (although we welcomed Jamaica's venerable Jolly Boys back in issue 201) so Disc Of The Day steps in to right a wrong on behalf of the soulful oldies' latest dub plate, an addition to the annals of "it shouldn't work, but it does". Taking a bunch of classic rock songs - Passenger, Rehab, Hanging On The Telephone, I Fought The Law and so on - and having the Jolly Boys do them over in a mento stylee is a bold move. As the last remaining original mento group, they range in age between 71 and 84, play banjo, shaker, acoustic guitar and marumba box (bass version of the kalimba thumb piano), but it works beautifully. But after half a century in business, there's little left to intimidate them, and they totally take over the songs, shaping them into wonderfully-layered arrangements, and moving them into the dawn of ska with vivid Jamaican flavour. Then on top of that is the rich harmonising and rousing lead tenors that give the songs a new, wholly original vibrancy. In a word: fantastic.
Lloyd Bradley
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 24/09/2010
Further Listening
Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit, 1997)
The Jolly Boys – Roots of Reggae: Music From Jamaica (Lyrichord, 1977)
Various Artists – Soundman Shots: The Caribou and Downbeat Story (Complete Blues, 2009)
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