#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #RootsReggae

#TheCongos' Heart Of The Congos LP is often considered the crown jewel of #LeePerry's Black Ark productions, and for me it was #CedricMyton's #falsetto vocals that put these guys on a spiritual plane all their own. This cut has those ancient Nyabinghi winds blowing through it - long may they reverberate.

(Music writer #BobMack first turned me on to the Congos with his brilliant Lee Perry overview in #GrandRoyal magazine in the early 90s - still worth re-reading today. RIP Bob.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yhijkS4X8&list=PLF35600334B4C072F&index=2

Only just heard about the senseless death of music writer/editor #BobMack, apparently struck and killed by a car while bicycling in LA in October 2023. RIP. https://2urbangirls.com/2023/11/authorities-id-bicyclist-killed-by-lax-airport/#google_vignette

I was friendly with Bob in the mid-90s, back when his meticulously researched, always hilarious, but still achingly human work in magazines like the #BeastieBoys' #GrandRoyal was freshly blowing the minds of music obsessives everywhere. Bob treated me - the lowly record shop clerk - with incredible kindness, happily hanging out for hours on hot summer afternoons to regale me with wiseass stories of his misspent youth. That he only managed to get his writing published in tiny drips and drabs is a minor tragedy. Some clued-up press with a music focus really oughta rectify this oversight posthumously.