There are records from the reggae canon that have been dear to me for years and years, but it took hearing Ini Kamoze’s Island debut in a Greenpoint bar the other night to wake my dormant interest in the sound. That brief album, marked by Sly & Robbie’s razor-sharp production skills, just seems very appropriate right now, especially the machine gun snares of the opening cut, “Trouble You A Trouble Me.”
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