Talking To You

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:51:49
Personnel: Bunny Rugs (vocals), Cat Coore (guitar, keyboards, background vocals), Danny Thompson (guitar, bass, drums), David Madden (trumpet), Nambo Robinson (trombone, percussion), Chico Chin (horns), Mafia, Fluxy, Computer Paul (keyboards, bass, drums), Clive Hunt (keyboards), O.D. (bass, drums, percussion programming), Dennis Walks, (background vocals). Producers: Jack Scorpio, Cat Coore, Clive Hunt. Engineers: Culture Lee, Mike Riley, Jason English, Greenfield Newton, Corin Pennington, Jack Scorpio. Recorded at Black Scorpio, Peter Couch Studios and Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica. Bunny Rugs had been with Third World for 19 years when he recorded his first solo project, Talking to You, which wasn't a radical departure from his work with that popular band. Best known for its 1978 remake of Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia soul classic "Now That We Found Love," Third World had a reputation for being more R&B-minded than a lot of other reggae bands -- in the U.S., many of the people who bought Third World's albums were R&B fans who didn't necessarily know a lot about reggae but had a casual interest in it. So it comes as no surprise that Talking to You doesn't cater to reggae's hardcore. A diverse effort, this decent to excellent release ranges from the apolitical lovers rock of "Gloria" and "Hearts on Fire" and the more socio-political reggae of "War, War, War" and Desmond Dekker's "Shanty Town" (one of the best known reggae gems of the early 1970s) to the outright R&B of "That Feeling," "Nowhere to Run," and "That's How I Feel." The CD's R&B selections, in fact, point to the fact that if Rugs (who also pleases on remakes of "Now That We Found Love" and Ben E. King's "Stand by Me") had pursued a career in R&B instead of reggae, he might have been a major R&B star. But as much as Talking to You has going for it, the CD won't win over those weren't fans of Rugs' work with Third World -- with this album, the Jamaican singer successfully preaches to the choir. ~ Alex Henderson
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)