Barrington Levy- Bounty Hunter
Henry “Junjo” Lawes produced Barrington Levy number from the early ’80s. This version is a recent repress of what was most likely originally a Volcano label issue (Junjo’s imprint). Barrington’s haunting vocals blend seemlessly with the economic arrangement performed by the Roots Radics to create as dread an atmosphere as possible. Early Dancehall streetwise concerns but just as heavy and pleading as the deepest of Roots rockers. The flip side of course has a killer version produced by Junjo and mixed (presumably) by Scientist for maximum (delayed) effect. This song (and many other Junjo productions) takes on an added heaviness given that he was gunned down in 1999 in an unsolved drive by shooting.
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