Black Uhuru : Youth of Eglington
In May of 1981 Black Uhuru released Red, produced flawlessly by Sly and Robbie. The album finished #3 on the NME year end chart, behind Grace Jones's Nightclubbing and Kraftwerk's Computer World, all released within days of each other. The album also ranked #14 in the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics poll. Dean Robert Christgau gave the album a grade of A-, writing :
Forget Sinsemilla--this one'll getcha. Believe me, Michael Rose isn't trying to fill anybody's shoes--he'd probably rather not wear shoes. The ululation and ragged sense of line are pure country, like Jamaican field hollers; lots of times the songs don't even rhyme. But "Youth of Eglington" lets you know right off that this is a country boy who reads the papers, and with Rose pouring forth and Sly and Robbie rolling that rockers riddim, who needs such niceties?
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