Cries From The Youth

by King Jammy

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1.	Junior Delgado - Storm Is Coming 04:04	buy track
2.	Dennis Brown - Up-Full One 03:10	buy track
3.	Pad Anthony - Got To Be Strong 03:46	buy track
4.	Kentucky - Only The Poor Man Feel It 03:31	buy track
5.	Johnny Osbourne - Chain Grabber 03:39	buy track
6.	Wackad - Cry For The Youths 03:37	buy track
7.	Admral Tibet - Why Should I 03:41	buy track
8.	Little John - In The Ghetto 02:59	buy track
9.	Wayne Smith - E20 03:45	buy track
10.	Sugar Minott - Jam In The Street 03:22	buy track
11.	Cocoa Tea - Possy 03:30	buy track
12.	Conroy Smith - Sugar Me 03:38	buy track
13.	Eccleton Jarrett - Hot We Say We Hot 03:34	buy track
14.	Tonto Irie - Ram Up Every Corner 03:18	buy track
15.	Leslie Thunder - Ram Dance Man 03:20	buy track
16.	King Kong - You Pack Up And Gone 03:25	buy track
17.	Admiral Tibet - Victim Of Babylon 03:50	buy track
18.	Cultural Roots - His Majesty Reign 03:49	buy track
19.	Junior Murvin - World Inflation 04:15	buy track
20.	Junior Delgado - Stop The Violence 03:52	buy track
21.	Al Campbell - Don't Take Your Guns To Town 03:35	buy track
22.	Sugar Minott - Conscious Lover 03:40	buy track
23.	Michael Palmer - It's Too Late 02:54	buy track
24.	Wailing Souls - Move On 03:33	buy track
25.	Nitty Gritty - So Dem Come So Dem Go 03:37	buy track
26.	Richie Spice - In The Ghetto 03:43	buy track
27.	Super Cat - Trash And Ready 02:47	buy track
28.	Bunny General - Fuck Fowl 03:44	buy track
29.	Little Twitch - Bucket-A-Shit 03:03	buy track
30.	King Everald - Bad Girls 03:40	buy track
31.	Super Black - Mouth A Massy Liza 03:34	buy track
32.	Nitty Gritty - Zero Their Minds 04:01	buy track

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The late 80s represent a robust but controversial period in the Jamaican
recording industry, as DJs were on the rise with new lyrical approaches, and digital production ruled the day. In the centre of the storm was Lloyd James, better known as King Jammy, who is credited for revolutionizing digital production several years earlier with Wayne Smith’s “Under Mi Sleng Teng.” This was the era the term ‘dancehall’ came widely into circulation to describe the new digital sound that came to commonly include slack lyrics and gun themes popular on the street.

Still relevant, the artists from the 1970s were working to redefine themselves in the digital era. Groups like Wailing Souls and Cultural Roots remained active, even if their multi-part harmony vocals might have seemed overly ornate on these new digital backing tracks, replete with drum machines and sparse synthesized chords. Solo singers like Johnny Osbourne, Junior Murvin, and the up-and-coming Cocoa Tea found a place for melody alongside the new crop of emcees.

With the thorough compilation Cries From The Youth, Greensleeves Records’ Chris O’Brien presents the period at King Jammy’s across 32 tracks. The album stridently and defiantly focused on the progress of underclass Jamaicans, recorded in the heart of Kington’s Waterhouse neighbourhood at Jammy’s Studio at 38 St. Lucia Avenue. The collection features the work of established artists such as Sugar Minott, Dennis Brown, Johnny Osbourne, and Wailing Souls, alongside cutting-edge dancehall artists like Super Cat, Cocoa Tea, Nitty Gritty, and King Kong. The material deals with both reality narratives and more aspirational spiritual themes, all of which defined the times in Waterhouse and across the city of Kingston.

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released July 21, 2023

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