Format: LP Label: Week-End Records Year: 2024 Media Condition: New Sleeve/Cover Condition: New NOTE: This title is not eligible for discounts. TRACKS: A1 Playing It Cool A2 Playing It Right Dub A3 Trust & Believe A4 In I Dub A5 California A6 By Night Dub B1 Not Good For Us B2 Formula Dub B3 Be What You Want To Be B4 Be Good Dub B5 I Can't Do Without You B6 Still Need You Dub Originally released in 1981. Possibly the dankest "showcase" LP, featuring 6 vocals and 6 dubs from Keith Hudson, roots reggae's greatest auteur. Hudson broke through at the turn of the 1970s as both a daring young producer for artists such as U-Roy, Big Youth, Ken Boothe, and Horace Andy, and a self-produced performer with an unpolished but undeniably affecting vocal style. In 1974 he produced two landmark albums: "Pick A Dub", one of the first official dub albums, and "Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood" -- a concept album bridging the emerging divide in reggae music between the emotional immediacy of lived experience and the mystical idealism of Afrocentric philosophy. In 1976, Hudson decamped to New York City, started the Joint International label, and produced the equally unique "Rasta Communication" and "Brand" LPs, along with the funk-infused "Too Expensive". In 1981, he created the dub masterpiece "Playing It Cool, Playing It Right" which he produced with the help of Wackie's founder and mastermind Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes. Recycling a number of rhythms from Hudson's early classics, the album continues Hudson's psycho-acoustic journey into the abyss of existence. 20 years since its last pressing, "Playing It Cool, Playing It Right" is available again with a newly revised master. Features replica ink-stamped jacket and "Joint International" labels, plus a rare interview with Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes about the making of the album.
