Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter 1

Hit Run issued it as APLP 9002, with Dennis Bovell and Mark Lusardi engineering and Adrian Sherwood mixing. Personnel include Eric Fish Clarke and Sly Dunbar on drums, Clinton Jack and Flabba Holt on bass, Bingy Bunny, Crucial Tony Phillips, Noel Sowell Bailey and Chinna on guitar, and Theo Beckford and Bigga Morrison on piano. We found no recording date or studio. A first CD came in 1991 from Danceteria in its ROIR Sessions series, and Pressure Sounds reissued it as PS13 in 1997. Wikipedia lists an AllMusic rating of 4 of 5 for Mark Deming, though a search summary said 1 star; the Encyclopedia of Popular Music gave it 2 of 5. One reviewer wrote that it lacks the righteous Rasta fire of Far I's toasting yet the dub mixes have shamanistic power, which we could not trace to a page.