Rohit Records
1988
Get Ready
About This Album
It's difficult to grasp today the extent that producer Gussie Clarke shook up the dancehalls in 1988. He barreled into the sound systems with Gregory Isaacs' hit "Rumours," then brought that rhythm to the world via J.C. Lodge's "Telephone Love"." The ragga arrangements wed to dread-fired atmospheres were a revelation, not just igniting the scene, but totally reinvigorating it.

Clarke oversaw Get Ready the same year as Rumours, although this album slightly proceeded that, but drew from the same pool of studio talent, including Sly Dunbar, Robbie Lyn, Danny Browne, Dwight Pickney, and Willie Lindo, and the sublime brass of Dean Fraser, Dave Madden and Nambo Robinson.



The majority of the set was composed by two of Clarke's own superb songwriters, Mikey Bennet and Dennis Croary, with Carlton Hines contributing a trio excellent numbers. The resulting album showcases every glittering facet of the Mighty Diamonds. Encompassing culture, love, feeling irie numbers, and ganja anthems, Get Ready is equally diverse musically, within a ragga style of course. Breezy backings, storming rhythms, tough as nail arrangements, there's even one, "Schoolmate" that is tailor made for the trio's love of American soul.
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