Dillinger
Hard Times
Dillinger is one of the most consistently successful DJs to come out of Jamaica, fondly remembered for his massive
"Cocaine in My Brain" hit from the great CB 200 album and the later-reworked "Marijuana in My Brain," which gave
Dillinger crossover hits in both England and Europe. But the versatile DJ has many more strings to his bow. Dillinger
(born Lester Bullocks, 1953 Kingston, Jamaica) began his musical venture around 1971, working as a DJ to Sound Systems
run by Prince Jackie and El Brasso. 1974 saw his first vinyl release in the form of Freshly for producer Yabby U and in
1975 he came out with the great Brace a Boy for the young Mr. Augustus Pablo. But his first album release was through
Coxsone Dodd's Studio One set-up, where he let Dillinger fire some vocals over classic rocksteady rhythms. It took the
form of "Ready Natty Dreadie." It was his time at Joseph "Jo Jo" Hookim's Channel One Studio that produced his second
album set, the timeless 1976 classic CB 200. It contained three big singles in "Plantation Heights," "Cocaine in My
Brain" and "Crank Face." The reworked "Marijuana in My Brain" even became a #1 hit in Holland in 1979. This set of tunes
come from his classic '70s period when Dillinger could do no wrong. Alongside the big "Cocaine" and "Marijuana" hits,
the great opening track "Love Is All I Bring" sees him working over Alton Ellis' "Still in Love With You," which Itself
turned into "3 Piece Suite." On "Money Alone Is Not All" he works over Barry Brown's "Mr. Money Man," and on "Hear and
Deaf" he works over Johnny Clarke's "Nobodies Business." "King Pharaoh Was a Baldhead" has him working Frankie Jone's
"Jesse Black" cut. "Concubine" reworks the Mighty Diamond's "Mother Winney" and "Time So Hard" sees Dillinger telling it
like it is over Ronnie Davis' original " Time So Hard" cut, empathizing the points in fine style. A classic set of tunes
from the master of rhyme himself.
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Format
LP · 1 disc
Release
05-09-2011
Label
Item-nr
792447
EAN
5060135760809
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