Mr. Isaacs

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共10首歌曲

艺人: Gregory Isaacs / Friends
语种: 其他
厂牌: Shanachie
发行时间: 1982年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Rick Anderson

The Cool Ruler is not known primarily as a cultural roots singer. Instead, his bread and butter has always been a particular brand of seductive lover's rock, always delivered at languid tempos in a reedy, not-particularly-attractive voice. So the largely political content of Mr. Isaacs, while not unprecedented, was still something of a departure from the norm when it was originally released in the '70s on the Jamaican Cash & Carry label. It succeeds for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is the rock-solid playing of the Revolutionaries. But Gregory deserves credit for understanding that trenchant political statements are sometimes most effective when delivered with the least amount of drama. The lines &I was given as a sacrifice/To build a black man's hell and a white man's paradise& are all the more biting when sung in Gregory's cool, lilting tenor-lesser interpreters would have clenched up and emoted; he lets the words speak for themselves and offers a vocal counterpoint instead of hammering the message home. &Story Book Children& is sweet and wistful; &Handcuff,& like &Sacrifice,& simmers with quiet outrage. And there are a couple of love songs, too, just so you don't forget you're listening to the Lonely Lover. Excellent.