This is Lovers Rock

This is Lovers Rock
Customer Review: great tracks from way back when….
Quite a departure from the recent batch of re-issue material that Greensleeves have released. The UK based Lovers Rock is not a sub-genre of reggae that a lot people associate with the label, but they would be wrong, because for time in the late 70’s / early 80’s, Greensleeves had an offshoot label dedicated to Lovers Rock, called Cool Rockers where some of the material for this compilation is culled from.

All the songs on this compilation were massive hits of the time. At the time Lovers Rock was seen as an exclusively British thing, but over the years the music has become very popular in Japan and also in the US, where Lovers Rock music - which has always consisted of a lot of cover versions of big US soul hits - strikes more than chord.

On this set there are classics from the Cool Rockers, UK Bubblers, Ariwa, Fashion Records, productions by Winston Edwards, Leonard Chin with tracks by Sister Lover, Alpha, Caroll Thompson, Brown Sugar, late great Deborahe Glasgow and many more

The bulk of these tunes have never appeared on CD ever, until now….

With extensive Liner notes, deluxe slip case packaging. This makes for an essential purchase and fills in another gap in the history of reggae music and Greensleeves Records.

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