Song:Hurry Home
Album:Amazing
Sly & Robbie are legendary producers who have worked with just about everyone in the music business. This song from 2008 shows they still have it. Drummer Sly Dunbar (born Lowell Dunbar May 10, 1952 in Kingston, Jamaica) and bassist Robbie Shakespeare (born Sept. 27, 1953 in Kingston, Jamaica) were already established in the Jamaican recording industry when they met as members of the Channel One house band The Revolutionaries in 1974. Dunbar had some success with Ansel Collins in 1969. The two began working together as producers and have never stopped working together ever since their initial success with Chaka Demus & Pliers and The Mighty Diamonds. They have been a huge part of changing the landscape of reggae. They have their own label Taxi Records and have worked with Island Records and now Universal all those years. They've worked with reggae artists like Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh and Gregory Isaacs and mainstream artists like Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Gilberto Gil and many more. Hurry Home is from their 2008 CD Amazing and I would describe it as Neo Soul with reggae overtones. It appears that the CD was intended for the Japanese market and did so well that Universal released it in the US. As is usual with Sly & Robbie, the album features various vocalists. Lady Traffic is a girl group from New York City and Sly & Robbie produced their 2008 debut CD. Sobani Iru Ne is a Japanese rapper. Hurry Home was written by a gospel rapper named SoulJa (not to be confused with Souljah Boy Tellem) and it was originally recorded by Japanese singer Thelma Aoyama. The connection is veteran Japanese producer Hiroshi Sato who brought the song to Sly & Robbie. Others who appear on Amazing are Jimmy Riley, Elephant Man, Courtney John and Bitty McLean. Sly & Robbie are still going strong and have recently had a lot of success producing Michael Franti & Spearhead. Here's the video for Hurry Home by Lady Traffic featuring Sobani Iru Ne.
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