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Pick a Dub

A 1974 dub album with 12 tracks, produced by Hudson, with Augustus Pablo on melodica.
Keith Hudson, 1974

Wikipedia credits Aston Barrett on bass, Carlton Barrett on drums, Hudson as arranger and on drums, and Augustus Pablo on melodica, with vocal snippets from Hudson, Horace Andy and Big Youth; the deluxe-edition page adds Sylvan Morris as engineer and lists Soul Syndicate players including Santa Davis, Fully Fullwood, Tony Chin and Chinna Smith without saying who played on which track. The title track is a dub of "S.90 Skank", and "Black Right" and "Satia" are recut from "Declaration of Rights" and "Satta Massagana", per Steve Barrow's liner notes via Wikipedia. It came out on Mamba in Kingston, then in London in a plain sleeve, and Atra reissued it with a colored cover; Blood and Fire reissued it in 1994 as its third release, and VP released a 50th anniversary edition. The label and year are contested: Wikipedia's infobox says Klik Records, one site gives Rockers Universite, and several sources date it 1975.

AllMusic gave five stars. David Toop in The Wire in 1994 called it one of the first dub albums, and Michael Hann in the Guardian in 2007 wrote that no other dub album can rival its austere sonic qualities; both are quoted on Wikipedia, not read independently.

Track listing

  1. Pick a Dub2:38
  2. Black Heart2:40
  3. Michael Talbot Affair2:54
  4. Don't Move2:43
  5. Blood Brother2:54
  6. Dreaded Than2:02
  7. In the Rain3:13
  8. Part 1-2 Dubwise3:17
  9. Black Right3:11
  10. Satia3:06
  11. I'm All Right3:02
  12. Depth Charge2:43

Sources

  1. Pick a Dub, Wikipedia
  2. Pick a Dub, Keith Hudson Music