Saturday, September 15, 2012

Joe Higgs - "Unity is Power",
Elevation 1978



















This is the guy that taught Bob Marley and the Wailers to sing
properly. "The Wailers weren't singers untill I taught them. It took
me years to teach Bob Marley what sound consciousness was
about, it took me years to teach the Wailers. For example, they
will be going to make a record and I would go with them, and
there is somebody making constant mistakes. I would just have
to take this part in order to get the record finished in time."
Bob Marley began singing in informal sessions at Joe Higgs'
yard on Trench Town's Third Street in 1960. The Wailers first
got together there in 1961, initially calling themselves 'The
Teenagers'. After quitting the Wailers at the end of spring 1973,
Bunny Livingstone Wailer became unwilling to leave Jamaica.
Joe Higgs, the goup's original Trench Town mentor, took his
place for the illfated tour with Sly & the Family Stone.
( Rough Guide ) This is an album from 1978, listen...

tracks;

 1   Devotion
 2   One man kutchie
 3   Unity is power
 4   Gold or silver
 5   Love can't be wrong
 6   Vineyard
 7   Small world
 8   Think of the moment
 9   Sadness is a part of my heart
10  Sons of garvey

jh-uip

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe was indeed the Master....thanks again Moos!

aduna said...

Hello Moos,

The new aduna Blog is ready now...
Feel free to visit it & to make a link on your site if you like it.

adunablog.blogspot.com

Thanks for this reggae lp.

Aduna

moos said...

absolutely Aduna, done..

Sinjoro Jillem said...

Bedankt Moos. Keep on skanking!

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

nick said...

Thank you, moos! Joe Higgs is always wonderful, and any reggae you post is always much appreciated. Have a great weekend.

de Carvalho said...

Moos,

the file need a password . which password it is?

moos said...

pasword is globalgroove..

Anonymous said...

Heartfelt thank you!

Of all the dub/reggae albums i have - I have never heard this?!

It is wonderful :-)

And the sound quality is full & sweet - well done!!

Greetings from (soon to be free) Alba

M

nick said...

wanted to say thank you again for this -- I've been listening to it a bit since I dl'ed it, and it gets better every time. A beautiful album that stands up very well next to his earlier Life of Contradiction -- thank you again for this!