Keith Hudson Presents: The Hudson Affair [Original recording remastered]

Keith Hudson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B0006U3U06
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Old Fashion Way

2. Dynamic Fashion Way

3. Spanish Omega

4. Old Broom

5. (You Must Be) Popular

6. Don't Start It Up

7. Don't Get Me Confused

8. Shades of Hudson

9. I'm Gonna Get You

10. Run Run

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Melody Maker

2. Melody Maker [Harmonica & Bongo Dub][Version]

3. Can You Keep a Secret

4. Don't Think About Me (I'm Alright)

5. Don't Think About Dub

6. Jean You Change Everything

7. The Betrayer

8. Peter & Judas

9. True True to My Heart

10. Silver Platter

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: HUDSON,KEITH & FRIENDS
Title: HUDSON AFFAIR
Street Release Date: 01/11/2005
Domestic
Genre: REGGAE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MELODY MAKER FROM JAMAICA, March 7, 2005

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Locks Lion (Blue Mountain Peak) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keith Hudson Presents: The Hudson Affair (Audio CD)

THE HUDSON AFFAIR: This is an excellent retrospective of Keith Hudson's production work between the late sixties and middle seventies. Featuring more than 50 prime reggae cuts along with first-class packaging and sleeve notes, this has to be considered the definitive Hudson collection - although to be honest, there's not much competition out there. Setting out with Ken Boothe's great OLD FASHION WAY from 1969, THE HUDSON AFFAIR takes in early reggae classics from singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, and a virtual who's-who of foundation DJs, including Dennis Alcapone, Big Youth, U Roy and I Roy. There are also numerous instrumental and dub versions (check the brilliant MELODY MAKER), and plenty examples of Hudson's own "unique" microphone technique (a somber, not-always-in-tune blues wail from the lower registers), all of which make a convincing case as to why the producer was nicknamed the Dark Prince of Reggae. For the most part, this isn't the kind of breezy, rum and coke reggae promoted by the Jamaican tourist board. Instead, Hudson often prefers deep, voodoo-blues basslines accentuated by wheezing, spluttering organ parts and menacing guitar licks. There's no escaping the ominous overtones of THEME FROM SATAN SIDE, DARKEST NIGHT ON A WET LOOKING ROAD, or CLASS & SUBJECT, but there's also a lighter spiritual side to Hudon's work, as evidenced by Delroy Wilson's classic A PLACE IN AFRICA, and Hudson's own HEALING OF THE LAND and TORCH OF FREEDOM among others. There's an astonishing catalogue of music recorded here; a fantastic anthology that's long overdue. Really, you should buy this right away.

Looking for more early reggae goodness? Check out Pressure Sounds' recent Herman Chin-Loy (Aquarius) retrospective, AQUARIUS ROCK...also very, very excellent.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MELODY MAKER FROM JAMAICA, March 7, 2005

By 

Locks Lion (Blue Mountain Peak) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hudson Affair (Audio CD)

THE HUDSON AFFAIR: This is an excellent retrospective of Keith Hudson's production work between the late sixties and middle seventies. Featuring more than 50 prime reggae cuts along with first-class packaging and sleeve notes, this has to be considered the definitive Hudson collection - although to be honest, there's not much competition out there. Setting out with Ken Boothe's great OLD FASHION WAY from 1969, THE HUDSON AFFAIR takes in early reggae classics from singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, and a virtual who's-who of foundation DJs, including Dennis Alcapone, Big Youth, U Roy and I Roy. There are also numerous instrumental and dub versions (check the brilliant MELODY MAKER), and plenty examples of Hudson's own "unique" microphone technique (a somber, not-always-in-tune blues wail from the lower registers), all of which make a convincing case as to why the producer was nicknamed the Dark Prince of Reggae. For the most part, this isn't the kind of breezy, rum and coke reggae promoted by the Jamaican tourist board. Instead, Hudson often prefers deep, voodoo-blues basslines accentuated by wheezing, spluttering organ parts and menacing guitar licks. There's no escaping the ominous overtones of THEME FROM SATAN SIDE, DARKEST NIGHT ON A WET LOOKING ROAD, or CLASS & SUBJECT, but there's also a lighter spiritual side to Hudon's work, as evidenced by Delroy Wilson's classic A PLACE IN AFRICA, and Hudson's own HEALING OF THE LAND and TORCH OF FREEDOM among others. There's an astonishing catalogue of music recorded here; a fantastic anthology that's long overdue. Really, you should buy this right away.

Looking for more early reggae goodness? Check out Pressure Sounds' recent Herman Chin-Loy (Aquarius) retrospective, AQUARIUS ROCK...also very, very excellent.