Desmond Dekker Builds the Perfect Summer Reggae Recipe
With summer drawing to a close, it’s time to kick out some smooth reggae jams and enjoy the last weeks of warmth and sun. No one creates a lazy reggae skank the way Desmond Dekker can.
On Reggae Recipe, Desmond Dekker and the Haitians stir up the perfect summer concoction. It starts as a little introduction to reggae. Desmond calls out the musicians one by one. Organ, drums, piano, guitar, and, of course, bass. And there you have it: a well-built summer groove.
As the solid shuffle breezes along, Dekker spits some nonsense about reggae, and the boys sing in honey-toned harmonies:
Reggae Recipe, la la la
Let the inflections of the Caribbean take you right to the seaside. Enjoy the rest of summer.
Sounds like the love child of: Toots and the Maytals and Jimmy Cliff.
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- This entry was posted on September 16, 2007 at 2:15 pm by Evan.
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September 17, 2007 12:30 pm
Clearly, it’s “La la la, la la la, la, la.”