Rhythm Rulers

Rhythm Rulers - Mudies Mood - Trojan

Now is a perfect example of how producers using basically the same set of musicans would spend a great deal of time and money creating a different sound.

You can nearly always tell a Harry Mudie production, the weight of the bass and the drum. The attention to the magnificent bass lines he would find, never mind those horns!!!

All the big rhythms form Harry are here ‘Drifter’

‘Rome’, ‘Heart Don’t Leap’ ‘Let Me Tell You Boy’. I’m not sure where Harry was working - what studio or what musicians he was working with he may have been Studio One, but he really did produce something different.

The big hit from Harry during this time came with Lloyd Jones ‘Rome’ - ‘Leaving Rome’ from Jo Jo Bennett isn’t here. But a instrumental cut with strings, without strings and just the vocal from Lloyd are all here, for lovers of version this is a great album!

Dennis Walks ‘Drifter’ and ‘Heart Don’t Leap’ also feature here as vocal and instrumental. This a fantastic celebration of a style of reggae that was both fast and heavy.

When the Dance Era kicked some ten years later all these rhythms were there again. No surprise at all!