Lee Perry - At Wirl Records '2013

Tracks list

Lee Perry’s time at WIRL Records, later to be renamed Dynamic Sounds
Studios, was a very productive time in his career. A run of great singles and
the shaping of a new sound, the beginning of what we know today as Reggae . This
period at WIRL saw some inspired work from Perry.
‘Run For Cover’ was a musical blow to a previous employer, Coxsone
Dodd and featured the Sensations on backing vocals and Lynn Taitt’s
guitar picking skills. ‘People Funny Boy’ was a massive hit for
Perry going on to sell over 60,000 copies. Joe Gibbs would be at the end of this
musical attack. Perry had felt Joe Gibbs had turned his back on him, after he
had provided hits for groups like, The Pioneers amongst others. The song would
be one of the first records to feature a New Beat (Reggae) inspired by the
sounds coming out of a Pocomania Church, Perry had heard one night.The
congregation inside, wailed in a more slower way than the current musical style
of the time Ska!.
Perry worked up this new style with Clancy Eccles, who would come under attack
himself in ‘You Crummy’. Their closeness, which as detailed in that
song would find them, ‘Even shared the same Gal’ but ‘Now
it’s plain to see we reached the end’. ‘Set Them
Free’ was an answer record to Prince Buster’s ‘Judge
Dread’ (which had featured Perry on it) a plea to the Judges in Jamaica
that handed out extremely harsh sentences to the young offenders of the time.
The track was cut on the same rhythm as ‘Run For Cover’ .
‘Django Shoots First’ inspired by the Spaghetti Western film of the
same name, features Sir Lord Comic.
One of the early DJ’s who used a jive talking style over rhythms.
WIRL Records provided an important chapter in Lee Perry’s career and
indeed to the story of Reggae itself.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Lee Perry - Labrish (3:27) 
1.02 - Lee Perry - Run For Cover (2:48) 
1.03 - Lee Perry - You Crummy (2:14) 
1.04 - Lee Perry - People Funny Boy (2:38) 
1.05 - Lee Perry - Justice To The People (3:12) 
1.06 - Lee Perry - Django Shoots First (2:33) 
1.07 - Lee Perry - Night Doctor (2:44) 
1.08 - Lee Perry - People Sokup Boy (2:55) 
1.09 - Lee Perry - Set Them Free (2:30) 
1.10 - Lee Perry - Clint Eastwood Rides Again (3:55) 
1.11 - Lee Perry - Water Pump (2:51) 
1.12 - Lee Perry - Something You Got (3:19) 
1.13 - Lee Perry - Wind Up Doll (3:00) 
1.14 - Lee Perry - Iron Claw (2:50) 
1.15 - Lee Perry - Rude Walking (3:13) 
1.16 - Lee Perry - Run For Cover Dub (2:51) 
1.17 - Lee Perry - Water Pump Dub (2:49) 
1.18 - Lee Perry - Something You Got Dub (2:55) 
1.19 - Lee Perry - Wind Up Doll Dub (2:58)

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