Iâ??m In Love With A Dreadlocks: Brown Sugar And The Birth Of Lovers Rock 1977-60
Soul Jazz Records are releasing this first ever collection of the pioneering British reggae Lovers Rock group Brown Sugar including rare singles, dubs and extended mixes. The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and interviews with Dennis Bovell, Pauline Catlin, John Kpiaye and Winston Edwards
Following their split Caron Wheeler became the lead vocalist for the hugely successful group Soul II Soul, Carol Simms launched a solo career as Kofi (re-making a number of Brown Sugar songs with producer Mad Professor) and Pauline Catlin returned to education. - BROWN SUGAR AND THE BIRTH OF LOVERS ROCK 1977-60
Soul Jazz Records are releasing this first ever collection of the pioneering British reggae Lovers Rock group Brown Sugar including rare singles, dubs and extended mixes (plus extensive sleeve notes and interviews). Despite their relatively low-key mainstream public exposure Brown Sugar announced to the world a new genre of reggae music, Lovers Rock, which spoke for the first time with the sensibility of a new segment of British society; that of first generation-born Black British female youth.
Packaged with a card slipcase and includes a 24 page booklet.