{"id":29576,"date":"2020-10-03T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/rocksteady\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:53:12","slug":"rocksteady","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/rocksteady\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocksteady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some records get better with time, and for some of that select set, the improvement is numerically quantifiable. With saxes, clarinets, and harmonica in hand, Bob \u201cHot Dog\u201d Ormrod and his son Richard \u2013 veterans of British traditionalists Skaville Train \u2013 took it upon themselves in 2004 to record inventive, engaging, but reverentially old-school horn leads for a batch of delicious Jamaican backing tracks. The rhythms they were working over, which came to them care of the mighty Derrick Morgan, were 1968-vintage Jamaican nuggets by Lynn Taitt & The Jets (listen close, Taitt\u2019s guitar is unmistakeable) and Beverley\u2019s All-Stars (Leslie Kong\u2019s house band, heard behind all the original reggae greats at one point or another). The result was a 10\u201d vinyl with a dozen tracks on it. 2011 saw it re-released, now with 18 tracks, and again in 2014, with the mix beefed up by U.K. engineer and producer Andrew Passey, alias Alien Dread. Passey\u2019s now released it again, as a CD and finally for download, this time with one short of two dozen tracks from what was described as a rather quick, off the cuff session. It\u2019s a long, luxurious listen full of fun stuff, including a wonderfully woozy take on \u201cGuantanamera\u201d. Summer may now be conclusively over, but here\u2019s a slice of it to tide you though the coldest months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n