Everton Blender

Everton Blender -Lift Up Your Head -Heartbeat -1994

Not sure when Everton made his first singles -but this debut album for Richard Bell's Startrail label was a major boom!!!Full of great songs and all produced to the very high standards of the label.The title track is truly something else. A positive uplifting message -so typical of its time. Finally it looked like the music was back on the right track -roots and culture.For Everton, was part of a movement that more or less started with Garnett Silk and Luciano, and included Morgan Hertiage, Sizzla, Jah Mali, Everton Blender and Jack Radics. Unlike Tibbet and Scion Success and Jah Mel, who had been recording since the early eighties. Everton was new. The problem of course is that its very likely to find that the man had recorded a whole heap of singles before this magnificent debut album. Apart from the title track, you will find here recuts of 'Sun Is Shining' (Wailers) and 'West Bound Train (Dennis Brown) very well done as well.A nice touch is 'Where Will The Children Play' made famous in reggae by Horace Andy -but originally a Cat Stevens tune.Richard Bell gives them all a fresh new sound -and they work very well with the vocal style of Everton. He did a great job and so did Everton.