Nadine Sutherland

Nadine -Nadine -VP -1997

Nadine had been recording for a while. An unreleased album for Tuff Gong recorded in the eighties.But a producer like Fatis, could not resist that husky voice so different to what Jamaica and reggae music had heard before.The bonus for Fatis is that Nadine could also write songs. There was no need to search around for suitable material for Nadine to sing.All he had to do was get that rhythm section which had worked so well for Luciano and so many others into place -and set what the woman could do.She didn't let him down. The album starts with 'Sentimental Idealist' its the sort of thing that Bob Andy would have wrote for Marcia Griffiths. Nadine had worked with Bob at Tuff Gong in the eighties -and I would guess she attended one of his songwriting classes!!!And if you like your songs a little bit more direct. Listen to 'Baby Baby, Baby' Fatis pulls out a massive rhythm for this tune -can't recall the rhythm at the moment -but its fits the lyrics so well.You also get a couple of ballads -but these are well done. And sound like they come from listening to one of Joe Higgs lectures on writing ballads -at Tuff Gong. A superb set -by any standard and in any form of music.