Track Listing

1. Another Heartache
2. Buttoo - The Concords, The Concords, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs & Johnny Osbourne
3. I Need Your Loving - The Concords, The Concords, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs & Johnny Osbourne
4. Don't Let Me Suffer - The Concords, The Concords, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs & Johnny Osbourne
5. Red Sun Rise
6. Where There Is Life
7. Too Late (Girl)
8. Each Day - Gregory Isaacs
9. Lonely Man
10. Far Beyond the Valley
11. Black and White
12. Grow Closer Together
13. Loving Pauper
14. Look Before You Leap
15. All I Have Is Love
16. Coming Home
17. Innocent People Cry
18. Love Is Overdue
19. Don't Go
20. I Need Your Love
21. Rock Away
22. Ba Da
23. Bend Down Low
24. Sinner Man
25. Fly Little Silver Bird

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409367 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-25
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

great album of rarities
I am familiar with most of Gregory's career. But I didn't follow it after his voice started to become nasal and the dancehall/repetitive synthesizer sound became common as he released dozens of albums in rapid succession.
However I did pick up some of these later albums, even some with synthesizers, and they were as creative almost as his earlier and classic periods I soon concluded.
I was able to listen before buying them so picked out good ones. Gradually I became of the opinion that his vocal style, equalled by perhaps only Alton Ellis, also accompanied music more innovative than any of his contemporaries when he put his mind to it. He writes almost all his own lyrics and has an unerring sense of creative rhythms for them when he takes the time. Of course, as we know, he cranked out many cds with any pick-up band or studio that had a synthesizer if they paid him enough, and those are to be avoided.
This album has some of the earliest songs and versions of later songs you will not find on any of his lps or cds. In fact there are some songs I never heard before, and I had an extensive vinyl collection at one stage.
"The Loving Pauper" is one of his very greatest songs, but here there is a new version of it I have never heard that is terrific. I never heard his version of "Bend Down Low", but it is fully the equal of Bob's.
And I had never heard him in the early group "The Concords" either. Here he is barely recognizable in the three selections on this cd as a member of that early group.
This is a unique album in all the archives of Gregory's work. One I accidentally discovered on Amazon when I decided shotgun style to buy all the cheap ones sold that also allowed me to listen to them. An amazing find.