Track Of The Day: Gregory Isaacs - Public Eye's (Burning Sounds)

The track that opens Gregory Isaacs’ incredible ‘Slum In Dub’ album, One that puts the listener right in the heart of a sound that was pervasive but also clandestine, at the time. (If you knew where to look, you would find.) A track that contains an apparent rogue apostrophe in its name, and is part of an album assembled at legendary Jamaican studios, Channel One and King Tubby’s. Gregory Isaacs was one of the most famous voices in reggae. However, on this tune it is conspicuous by its absence. This was the rule, rather than the exception, with such releases, most of the time at least. Today’s weather is a call to arms for music like this, and it’s long overdue.