Ras
1996
Milk And Honey
About This Album
The partnership of Dennis Brown and Errol "Flabba" Holt continues to pay rich dividends, for of all the producers the singer worked with across the '90s, arguably Holt was the most sympathetic. Blood Brothers, where Brown joined forces with Gregory Isaacs, was very good indeed, but Holt still had to cater to the latter man's style as well; here he can lavish his attention on Brown alone. The results are awe-inspiring. Backed by Holt's Roots Radics, and with a guest appearance by bassist Leroy Sibbles and drummer Sly Dunbar, the album is driven by modern digitized beats, but boasts the Radics at their richest. The group plunder the Jamaican songbook for old rhythms, reaching back into the past to root out old roots numbers, disinter the beautiful melodies of the rocksteady era, and even cross the Caribbean to plunder the American pop chart. There's a phenomenal lush and soulful cover of the Jackson 5's classic "Never Can Say Goodbye," slightly retitled within. Horace Andy's gorgeous "My Guiding Star" provides Brown with the inspiration for the lovelorn "Why U Wanna," its rhythm totally reinvented by the Radics. That's just one of a stream of glorious love songs that Milk and Honey is drenched in.
Track List (try tracks 4,7 and 11)

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