Funky kingston also launched the unbelievably great pressure drop later covered by the clash.
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Toots hibbert is a man who can give soul to a john denver song so imagine what happens when he channels otis redding at his most love tortured.
Initially released in 1973 by dragon 2 with 2 different covers one a photo the other one with a drawing.
Though originally issued in 1970 the us wouldn t get to experience pressure drop until 1975 when it was released on the us version of their album funky kingston easily considered one of the strongest albums in toots the maytals.
Toots and the maytals were always a little rough around the edges until chris blackwell s polished them up for this album.
Their sound is a unique original combination of gospel ska soul reggae and rock.
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Toots and the maytals funky kingston is a brilliant reggae album and suitable for both beginners as for experienced listeners the album was released twice and with so much success that it charted in the billboard 200 and eventually made it to the rolling stone s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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In fact the title track was blackwell s idea.
On the original other than the title track it s all a little too polished and yet again let down by.
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Noting the popularity of funky nassau an american top 20 hit for a funk band from the bahamas called the beginning of the end he suggested to toots that the maytals should make their own claim on musical kinship with the grooviest music issuing out of the states and hence funky kingston was born.
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If sean paul is all you know about reggae tune into the sounds of kingston circa 1973.
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The photo version was later used by trojan records.
Though originally released in 1970 the us wouldn t get to experience pressure drop until 1975 when it was released on the us version of their album funky kingston easily considered one of the strongest albums in toots the maytals catalog not to mention one of the greatest in reggae history.
In 1975 mango released a revised version toots the maytals funky kingston with the original drawn cover but kept from funky kingston 1973 only 3 tracks funky kingston louie louie and pomp and pride and added 6 tracks.
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