Foul Play (album)
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| Foul Play | ||||
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| Released | 1981 | |||
| Studio | Joe Gibbs Studio, Kingston, Jamaica | |||
| Genre | Reggae | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Clive Hunt, Joe Gibbs | |||
| Dennis Brown chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Foul Play is a 1981 album by reggae singer Dennis Brown, the first of three albums to be released as part of his international record deal with A&M.[2] The album features two tracks which have been described as "two of the greatest roots cuts in major label history", in "The Existence of Jah" and "The World is Troubled".[2] The album was reissued on the Joe Gibbs label as a double-set with its follow-up, Love Has Found Its Way, and with both of the other A&M albums on the double-CD set The Complete A&M Years. The album mixed roots reggae tracks and sociopolitical themes with love songs such as "If I Had The World", "Your Man", and a new version of one of his early hits, "If I Follow My Heart". Klive Walker, in his book Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground suggested that the lyric of "If I Had the World" ("You drive away the pains from me, sometimes you're like cocaine, baby") suggests that Brown was already using cocaine at the time that the album was recorded.[3]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks composed by Dennis Brown; except where indicated
- "On The Rocks" (Clive Hunt)
- "The Existence of Jah"
- "Come On Baby" (Clive Hunt)
- "The World is Troubled"
- "I Need Your Love"
- "Foul Play" (Joe Gibson)
- "Your Man"
- "If I Had the World"
- "If I Follow My Heart"
- "The Cheater"
Personnel[edit]
- Dennis Brown - vocals
- Willie Lindo - lead guitar
- Noel Bailey - rhythm guitar
- Lloyd Parks, Robbie Shakespeare - bass
- Clive Hunt, Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul, Robbie Lyn - keyboards
- Sly Dunbar, Devon Richardson - drums
- Dean Fraser, Ronald "Nambo" Robinson, David Madden - horns
- Ruddy Thomas, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - percussion
- The Professionals - backing vocals
- Technical
- Errol Thompson - engineer, mixing
- Larry Maxwell - executive producer
- Aaron Rapoport - photography
References[edit]
- ^ Henderson, Alex "Foul Play Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
- ^ a b Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6, p. 45, 47
- ^ Walker, Klive (2006) Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground, Insomniac Press, ISBN 978-1-894663-96-0, p. 220