old man love young gal vegie GENERAL ECHO

here's a sensitive foray into the distinguished, post-erotic codpiece of jamaican chivalry.  turn off annie hall, screw in the red bulb, and let GENERAL ECHO take you by your lingham or yoni into a simmering bath of ranking slackness, who's every perfectly formed bubble is cloaked in a diaphanous, tender psychoanalytic mystery.  with ten brilliantly manicured song titles, i found choosing just one song off this piece of blue vinyl to be a lot like jogging in place, trying to explain phenomenology to strom thurmond.  admitted fantasy aside, i shelved SHE HAVE A PAIR OF HEADLAMP BREAST for the curious, OLD MAN LOVE YOUNG GAL VEGIE.  it feels really good to type that.  old man love young gal vegie.

the year is 1980.  the world lost both JOHN LENNON and smallpox, but was given 12" OF PLEASURE from the folks at GREENSLEEVES, a five year old record store cum record label on the island floating next to france.  ECHO had already released a full-length the year before on TECHNIQUES, a smaller kingston-based label and home to the female toaster SISTER NANCY.  ECHO emerged as a key figure in the slack scene, having worked his way through several sound systems.  slack is a more sexually oriented form of reggae than roots or dub, that helped usher in dancehall thanks in large part to the technique of beat-juggling discovered by djs.  if you were to trace the phylogeny of dancehall back into the late 70's, you would find ECHO's monotone vocal delivery and repetitive rhythms to be the foundation for artists like YELLOWMAN, EEK A MOUSE, and worth noting SNAGGA PUSS, who's toasting gimmick sounds a lot like ECHO'S intro on this track.

as for the song itself, i find it interesting that GENERAL ECHO merged with the infinite not long after this record was printed, when he was 25, a fair distance from discounted coffee at mcdonalds.  was this song, like the knowledge of how to organize a tackle box, passed on from one male to another?

bonus material

PATOIS TERMS OF NOTE:

cabin stabbin

nuttin' nuh go so

rakstone inna mi shoe

all sheg up

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