Echo Minott

[MauiRootBwoy]

His "Familiar Faces" LP any good?

[Rootsman]

Nope, its pretty crap imo.

Better album from this period is the "Meets Frankie Paul"

I would go for "Sly and Robbie Showcase", "Youthman Vibrations" and "Rock and Calypso" first.

To be honest I dont think any of his albums as a whole are brilliant but that do have some good tracks.

His 12" output is somewhat more consistent.

Dave

[Chris]

Dave,
You seem to know the Echo Minott material. How is the "Anthology" CD, for someone with no Echo Minott in their collection?
Chris

[Rootsman]

Chris,

I dont have that album so I cannot really comment. It appears to cover sevaral decades and I only know the 4 albums I mention.

I would imagine the majority of that "Anthrology" album is later 80`s onwards and assume digital in sound.

Perhaps someone who has it can comment.

Dave

[hans]

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/4094

Tunes on this Anthology album are mostly 1986+ digi stuff. The first 6 tunes will fit in RA's scoop and are wicked.
Some murder digi tunes on it:
* put your hands pon the key
* what the hell (the police can do)
* murder weapon
* emmanuel road
* original fat thing.
Skip the remixes.

So pretty worth listening.

[Chris]

Thanks Dave and Hans.

The one song I had read about and was interested in was: "What the hell (the police can do)".

Thanks again,
Chris

[jm]

hi MauiRootBwoy
I'm an Echo Minott lover and I love all the Echo'lps
Familiar face is his fourth lp released on the great skengdon label in 1986 the sound is digit but I love this style no problem with this album
bye
jm