Dennis Brown "Crown Prince" - Rare Grooves Reggae Rhythm & Blues (44th Studio Album)

👑 Dennis Brown’s FORTY-FORTH Studio Album! DEB’s Rare Grooves + Rhythm & Blues Songbook (Spring, 1993) D. Brown recorded 38 songs for Lloyd Charmers between late 1990 and early 1993 at Easy Street Studios in London. The “Sarge” (Reggae) and “Rare Grooves” (Rhythm & Blues) sessions that followed after appeared across five releases, in three countries, and in different variations during this time period. The easiest way of acquiring the full set of tunes from this partnership is as follows… Sarge LP (CPL, 🇬🇧 / Yvonne’s Special, 🇯🇲) Rare Grooves Reggae Rhythm & Blues (2xLP Gatefold Set) (Body Music, 🇬🇧) Also available seperately as Vols. 1 & 2 on Yvonne’s Special, 🇯🇲) The General LP (VP Records 🇺🇸) Six of the Eight songs here dont appear on the albums above. They are only found on the Trojan Records, 🇬🇧 editions of this material. Here’s the Crown Prince’s powerful R&B cover of Phil Collins “Another Day In Paradise” overlooking a snowy Bronx and the 2 & 5 🚂 outside my bedroom window while drinking my ☕️ on this snowed-in, remote learning morning. The songs theme of Homelessness in what many consider NYC to be - “Paradise” - got me thinking about the Migrants and the many other challenges everyone is currently facing worldwide in these times. Pretty cool how the train pulls up with 35 seconds left and fully clears just as the song ends…