THE CONGOS Cock Mouth Kill Cock

Amazing roots reggae with incredibly heavy bass for dub fiends. Some 30 years ago the Congos recorded Heart of the Congos, one of the greatest roots reggae albums ever to come out of Jamaica, with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry at Perry's Black Ark Studio in Kingston.

Review: The Congos are a duo comprised of Cedric Myton and Roydel "Ashanti" Johnson, the Congos are known primarily known for one record, Heart of the Congos, released in 1977. Reggae historian Steve Barrow, one of the people behind the exquisite reissue of this long-thought-lost record, considers it as good as seminal reggae recordings such as Bob Marley and the Wailers' Natty Dread, Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey, and the Mighty Diamonds' Right Time. This is not an exaggeration. Myton and Johnson, working with Lee Perry at his Black Ark Studios in Kingston created a masterpiece, one of (if not the) finest production job of Perry's long and prolific career.

Heart of the Congos was such a complete package that the Congos have been hard put to come anywhere that near the sun ever since, and while it would be tempting to say that this new album finally puts them back into rarefied air, the truth is that albums like Heart of the Congos a re products of a particular time and place and finding that exact sweet spot again is probably close to impossible.

What Cock Mouth Kill Cock (the title is a Jamaican proverbial saying that essentially means, watch what you say, it could be your undoing) does do, however, is directly embrace Heart of the Congos' legacy and history, which is probably as close as the Congos are ever going to get to actually repeating it. ~ Amazon

Songs/Tracks:

1. Cock Mouth
2. God's Kingdom
3. Watch And Pray
4. Grandma Say
5. River Beng Come Down
6. Citizen Of The World
7. Some A Thief
8. Rasta She Want
9. Rastafari Is His Name
10. Heaven Rejoice
11. Out Of The Clouds
12. Chasing Dreams
13. Throw Down Your Armour
14. Take It To The Max

File Under: Roots Reggae - Keyword: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Heart Of Darkness

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