Ras
2000
May Your Food Basket Never Be Empty
About This Album
Dennis Brown left a vast canon of superb music behind, thus there's little fear that his work will be lost or forgotten, and so fans can celebrate his life rather than bemoan his much too early death. May Your Bread Basket Never Empty is the perfect place to start the festivities, and with all proceeds going to Brown's family, a beneficial one to boot. The album's intended title was The Remake, but it was changed after Brown's death as a tribute to one of the singer's own favorite phrases and a sign of producer Errol "Flabba" Holt's intentions towards the Brown family. The original title was apt, as the vast majority of this set resurrects old hits, both the singer's own, as well as other artists', strewn around a handful of new numbers. Bless Me Jah, cut for Holt the previous year, followed a similar formula with much success. Bread is equally powerful, although it's evident that some of the songs were still unfinished at the time of Brown's death. A couple are fairly raw, several others suggest that flaws were adeptly covered by production techniques, yet the performances still reverberate with or without Holt's help. One of the most surprising numbers in this basket is Brown's cheerful take on Israel Vibration's seminal, but rarely covered, "The Same Song," backed by the perkiest rhythm on the set.
Track List (try tracks 3,7,12 and 13)

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