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Very Best of Toots & the Maytals

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Description: Toots Hibbert is often compared to Otis Redding, and since Hibbert was greatly influenced by classic American R&B as well as the music of his own Baptist church, that comparison is certainly apt. But while he owes a debt to the intense, high-octane vocal approach of Redding, there is also a great deal of similarity between Toots and the great James Brown. In many ways and at roughly the same time, Hibbert did for Jamaican soul what Brown did for its American cousin--he made it funky and nasty! One listen to the chunky guitar riffs underneath and Hibbert's repetitive vocal chants on top of 1968's "Do the Reggay" and ... (more)
Manufacturer: Island
Release date: 25 April 2000
EAN: 0731454234528 UPC: 731454234528
Tags: Reggae (1), Ska (1), Rocksteady (1)
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