Thursday, June 25, 2009



David Berthy Posts

I never get tired of reggae treatments of soul songs, especially in
the summer. I’ve heard a few duds, but most of these covers seem to
work out exceptionally well, especially those from the period before
roots reggae took hold, when soul music had a strong influence on
reggae. I’ve bought a bunch of reggae soul compilations over the
years, and here are four of my favorite examples of the genre.

Reggae Soul

1 comment:

Tony B. said...

Nice stuff ... the Trojan Record compilations are my primary exposure to this kind of stuff, but I've never heard most of these.

(And "If loving you is wrong ..." is a password protected itunes copy and won't play. )

Uh, time to ready a Michael Jackson post? Hope we won't be needing it, but ...