スキンヘッド・レゲエ、R&B、ソウル、スカ・・・様々な黒人を音楽の要素を取り入れた傑作レゲエ!
70前後にBEVERLEY'S RECORDSで録音されていたシングルを中心にTROJANがアルバム化し、UKで大ヒット。MAYTALSはレゲエ史において、地味なイメージが強いですが、今作はそれを覆す内容。ジャマイカ音楽の要素を残しつつも、ポップかつ、かなりファンキーでDJにも使える00年代だからこそ見直さなければならない内容。レアグルーブ好きはもちろんレゲエ重要名盤として大推薦です!
発売・販売元 提供資料(2023/11/10)
From the Roots was Toots & the Maytals' fourth album, released by Trojan following the group's signing to Island Records in 1973. The record was cobbled together from odds and ends of tracks recorded between 1969 and 1970 for Leslie Kong's Beverley's label, and while it doesn't contain any of the more famous Kong-produced cuts ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), it still exhibits the Maytals' trademark Jamaican version of gospelfervor, led by lead singer Toots Hibbert's barn-burning vocal style. Arguably this album, along with its Kong-produced predecessor, 1970's Monkey Man, contains the best and most explosive tracks in the Maytals' discography, and compilations that reshuffle the two albums in different combinations are common in the record bins. ~ Steve Leggett
Rovi