Leroy Smart

    Leroy Smart

   Leroy Smart - Dread Hot In Africa - Makkasound

   Over the last ten years some artists have had a great deal of there

   music released on CD. Not so Leroy Smart. One of his first was the

   Channel One set, which was strange because an album from him on

   Channel One which everyone wanted never came out at the time!!!! That

   was a very belated releaase. Then came a set for Bobby Digital,

   recorded in the early nineties. What was missing was all the work with

   Bunny Lee, some of those tracks appear here. Now with a production

   credit to Leroy. It makes sense, Bunny works like that. This is a

   great set, Leroy is a remarkable singer and songwriter. It�s a big

   voice, a very powerful voice - but it�s a range of shades from

   happiness to anger and everything between. The sleevenotes on this set

   are always very interesting - and it seems the release of his first

   record 'So Mean To Me' for Jackie Estick it seems in 1967 is

   incorrect!! Mr Caribbean indeed!!