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Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right (Import LP)

Genre: Reggae

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Electrifying 1981 Roots Reggae Album on Vinyl LP!

Keith Hudson was a one-of-a-kind musical innovator with an impeccable track record from the start: his first studio recording involved former Skatalites, and his earliest releases provided solid-gold hits for Ken Boothe, John Holt, Delroy Wilson, U-Roy, and the others. Playing It Cool & Playing It Right was released in 1981 on the Joint International label, in NYC, with Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes as the executive producer. The Love Joys and Wayne Jarrett, stalwarts of Barnes' record label, Wackies, would also inimitably feature Hudson at the microphone. Like Bullwackie, Hudson was a devotee of Coxsone Dodd's Studio One, and Playing It Cool & Playing It Right follows Dodd's then-strategy of overdubbing his signature rhythms. The Studio One sides were aimed at the dancefloor and Hudson's reworkings of tracks like "Melody Maker" are more psychological. Here, deep Barrett Brothers rhythms are made deeper with reverb, filters and distortion; everything pitched down and overlaid with new recordings of guitar, percussion, keyboard, and voice, often heavily treated. Playing It Cool & Playing It Right continues Hudson's psycho-acoustic journey into the abysses of existence, and overwhelms with the beauty of artistic self-empowerment. Even more fascinating is Hudson's production, which reflects Black history in even the smallest sound detail, the flashing whip of the slave driver still echoes in the sound of the snare drum. Rarely has a roots sound been made so electrifying, so expansive in all directions, so crystal clear, so bass-warm and echophonic as on these 30 minutes of music.

Features
Vinyl LP
Import
Tracklist:
Side A:
Playing It Cool
Playing It Right Dub
Trust & Believe
In I Dub
California
By Night Dub

Side B:
Not Good for Us
Formula Dub
Be What You Want to Be
Be Good Dub
I Can't Do Without You
Still Need You Dub