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Johnny Osbourne
Truth & Rights (Dlx) (Ocrd)
Genres: International Music, Pop

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Truths and Rights
2. Children Are Crying
3. Can't Buy Love
4. Jah Promise
5. Nah Skin Up
6. We Need Love
7. Eternal Peace
8. Sing Jay Stylee
9. Love Jah So
10. Let Me In
11. Jealousy Heartache and Pain
12. Luanda - Dub Specialist
13. West Gone Black - Jah Jesco & Jucey Bravo
14. Truths and Rights (extended mix)
15. Sing Jay Stylee (extended mix)
16. Can't Buy Love/Swing Easy

CD Details

All Artists: Johnny Osbourne
Title: Truth & Rights (Dlx) (Ocrd)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Heartbeat / Pgd
Original Release Date: 1/1/1979
Re-Release Date: 7/8/2008
Album Type: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Genres: International Music, Pop
Style: Reggae
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 011661784024

Synopsis

Album Description

Originally released in 1979, Johnny Osbourne's Truths and Rights LP helped usher in the 1980s dancehall sound. It solidified Johnny Osbourne's popularity, and he would go on to become one of the most prolific of the dancehall reggae singers. Recorded in Jamaica and produced by Clement Dodd, Johnny was presented with a plethora of classic Studio One rhythms from the vaults on which to record. The legendary foundation label was undergoing a creative renaissance with new prototypical dancehall albums by Freddie McGregor, Sugar Minott, Michigan & Smiley, Willie Williams, and of course, Johnny Osbourne. This deluxe edition includes all ten album tracks, remastered from the original tapes. A further six tracks - extended mixes, a dee-jay version, a dub version, and a bonus track from the period - have been added. The liner notes include a recent interview with Cleveland "Clevie" Browne, of Steely & Clevie fame.

CD Reviews

A Missed Opportunity......

TCH | Cambs, UK. | 09/06/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Straight off the bat I have to say Johnny Osbourne's "Truth and Rights" is without doubt in the top 10 reggae albums ever but this 'expanded' CD reissue really doesn't do it justice. To quote Honest Jon's Records on the subject, "Talk about an open goal, with so much great Johnny Osbourne at Brentford Road still un-revived, this comp is a miserably wasted opportunity. Honestly, pretty pathetic -- but still, a few extras and (dodgy) extendeds...". Couldn't put it better myself but it gets worse on track 4; 'Jah Promise' one of the best tracks on the album there is an audible tape glitch 1:18 minutes into the song (sounding like the source tape momentarily being rewound). This is utterly disgraceful in a CD that claims to be "remastered from the original tapes" with no caveat emptor about sound quality (sound restoration has come such a long way that such glitches can easily be eliminated) and marketed at a full price. Honestly Heartbeat Records really needs to tighten up their act since their last Studio One compilation "The Gladiators: The Studio One Singles" had an incorrect tracklisting (which I believe has now finally been corrected). It is a real shame with the supremely rich Studio One catalogue to choose from that they are so hit-and-miss with some of their stuff being admittedly brilliant (eg. the "When Rhythm Was King" compilation) but other stuff so slip-shod (eg. the "Six The Hard Way" compilation, a real dog's dinner that one) and doubly a pity now it seem that the UK based Soul Jazz label appears to have given up issuing Studio One product perhaps thinking the well is dry (in which case they'd be wrong)."