Thugs In The Street (Vinyl 2xLP) Rhythm & Blues

Thugs In The Street (Vinyl 2xLP) Rhythm & BluesThugs in the Street is the album originally released by The Mighty Diamonds in 2006 available here on vinyl for the first time and it shows the three diamonds Tabby, Bunny and Judge, still have their golden voice! Recorded with some of the top musicians in Jamaica including Sly Dunbar, Dean Fraser and Lloyd Parks, mainly at Anchor studio, all the songs, from Every Other Day, to I Need a Roof, remind you of the golden age of harmony vocals trios like

the inflated alter - egos of Gerry and The Holograms (and their unrivalled brand of conceptual sarcastic synth pop) successfully remodelled

Fire Records is reissuing Dead Famous People's debut EP for the first time outside New Zealand

Guttural organ tones swim under overdriven guitar

" says frontman Nicholas Petricca via phone from Los Angeles

I Wah Dub was released in 1980

the classic LP features hits like (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)

Released when a new year dawns

and recorded between 1972 and 1981

But at the dawn of the 1970s

1963 with the neglected Frank Strozier (alto sax

rock and hip hop in between

who helped me a lot on this new project