Island Gruve Supper Club - Mighty Fine Everlasting Music (Audio CD - 2005)

The Island Gruve Supper Club is something of a reggae supergroup, gathering longtime fixtures of the Jamaican music scene in front of a veteran rhythm section. Each singer gets one to three lead vocals, giving the album a feeling close to an old-fashioned R&B road show revue. This relaxed quality is exacerbated by the audio vérité snippets that interrupt the flow of the album several times. Apparently recorded by a hidden mike (which would at least explain the terrible sound quality, which at times makes the conversations all but impossible to follow even for those familiar with the singers' patois) at a dinner table -- the conversations usually resolve around food -- the audio diary is interesting to hear once or twice. However, the snippets intrude somewhat annoyingly on what's otherwise a well-constructed and entertaining set of old-school traditional reggae.
Condition:NEW. Punched UPC

TRACK LISTING

1 Chicken Pill 1:36
2 Hey 3:08
3 She Thanks the Lord 3:25
4 Moonlight Swim 3:32
5 Do You Eat Chicken Pill? 0:36
6 Almost Told Her 3:00
7 Waiting to See Me 3:50
8 Monty Goes to Jail, Pt. II 1:23
9 Little Rascal 4:39
10 Come Along for the Ride 3:30
11 Praying Hands 3:07
12 It's Rock Steady Time 3:34
13 The Bass Line 1:01
14 If We Pray 4:32
15 After the Closing Bell (Credit Where Credit Is Due) 7:12