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Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread

Billed as his 20th album and the first of his own vocal numbers.
Lee "Scratch" Perry, 1978

VP Records bills it as Perry's 20th album, counting sets, compilations and dub discs, and the first devoted entirely to his own vocals. Wikipedia lists Perry on vocals and percussion, Geoffrey Chung, Earl Chinna Smith and Billy Boy on guitar, Winston Wright on organ, Boris Gardiner on bass, Mickey Boo Richards and Sly Dunbar on drums, and the Full Experience on backing vocals. The label is Upsetter on Wikipedia and Lion of Judah on Kill Your Pet Puppy. Wikipedia says Island, which had issued Super Ape, rejected the album, angering Perry, a claim it flags as needing a citation. A Record Store Day red-vinyl reissue followed on June 12, 2021, with notes by David Katz.

AllMusic's Jo-Ann Greene gave five stars, per Kill Your Pet Puppy; the Village Voice's Sasha Frere-Jones praised Perry's proto-rap mic skills; PopMatters's Michael Keefe called it a wonderfully odd and fun album. "Curly Locks" is a cover of Junior Byles.

Track listing

  1. Soul Fire3:51
  2. Throw Some Water In3:42
  3. Evil Tongues3:53
  4. Curly Locks4:03
  5. Ghetto Sidewalk4:16
  6. Favourite Dish3:15
  7. Free Up the Weed3:35
  8. Big Neck Police3:40
  9. Yu Squeeze My Panhandle3:51
  10. Roast Fish and Cornbread3:47

Sources

  1. Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread, Wikipedia
  2. Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread, VP Records
  3. Lee Perry, Ape-ology, PopMatters (2007)